Model Railroading > Whatever happened to the SDP40F?

Last year there was all kinds of certainty surrounding this announcement being made by Athearn at the Portland convention. 

Did Athearn decide to put egg on the face of people who let this info out?

Rick

Believe the molds are being cut.   Lots of research put into the project. 

The word that it is being done was put out last year by Craig Walker, Head man of project development at Athearn. This will be a big deal when completed.

Lots of tooling and artwork to cover all the versions.

It will most likely be announced officially when they have a model in hand.

Keith Turley
Monrovia, California

The last thread about this said an announcement is expected at this year's National Train Show (NMRA convention).

toledopatch Wrote:
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> The last thread about this said an announcement is
> expected at this year's National Train Show (NMRA
> convention).

Perhaps Kato's N scale unit gave pause,,,,redoing it in HO is not hard to do given the CAD files and models are scaleable.

Bob

 

Yeah, but it's Kato.  They're not exactly known for, you know, HO anymore.

- Jeff Carlson

navarch2 Wrote:
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> Perhaps Kato's N scale unit gave pause,,,,redoing
> it in HO is not hard to do given the CAD files and
> models are scaleable.
>
> Bob

bnsfsd70 Wrote:
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> Yeah, but it's Kato.  They're not exactly known
> for, you know, HO anymore.

Yes, junk. I have sold all of my kato's that I had.
 

It's not that easy.

I think we'll hear some time in the next few months. 

navarch2 Wrote:
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> toledopatch Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The last thread about this said an announcement
> is
> > expected at this year's National Train Show
> (NMRA
> > convention).
>
> Perhaps Kato's N scale unit gave pause,,,,redoing
> it in HO is not hard to do given the CAD files and
> models are scaleable.
>
> Bob
>
>  

Sounds like a 2017 release then but good things come to those that wait.

Cheers Jim

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> Sounds like a 2017 release then but good things
> come to those that wait.
>
> Cheers Jim

They better be pretty darn good then. Some of us have been waiting quite a long time!! ;-)

Mike

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