Model Railroading > Athearn August announcements

Items are posted on their web site. SD60M/I: CR, NS, BN, BNSF, CSX. GP60M's.

Wonder if the shells are going to be complete on this set. I'm still waiting on Athearn to reply to my email from over a year ago about my BNSF versions.

Chris

The 40' containers would be useful to me; they look like 1970's/early 1980's type.  Other some of the box cars may be useful too.

Cheers, Jim Fitch

 

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> The 40' containers would be useful to me; they
> look like 1970's/early 1980's type.  Other some
> of the box cars may be useful too.
>

I saw those, too, and found myself wondering how many containers of that design were still in service by 1990. I don't remember seeing them in the stack trains I saw then, but might there have been a few (other than retired ones used for storage)?

Waiting for the Maersk GP60M to come out with sound one day.....even if its RTR and not Genesis....

Most of those containers would be riding on 86/89' flats or on trailer chassis, not double stacked.

I got my SD60M body details a few months after that debacle.   Try contacting them again.

Jason Eminian
Smith Brothers Hobby Center

Fizzboy7 Wrote:
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> Most of those containers would be riding on 86/89'
> flats or on trailer chassis, not double stacked.

OK, COFC is good. But were they still around c.1990?
 

toledopatch Wrote:
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> Fizzboy7 Wrote:
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> > Most of those containers would be riding on
> 86/89'
> > flats or on trailer chassis, not double
> stacked.
>
> OK, COFC is good. But were they still around
> c.1990?
>  

Maybe one or two, but it would have been rare by then.   K-Line and NYK had schemes out during your time era that were kind of close to the ones Athearn is showing, but not exact.

Fizzboy7 Wrote:
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> toledopatch Wrote:
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> > Fizzboy7 Wrote:
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> > > Most of those containers would be riding on
> > 86/89'
> > > flats or on trailer chassis, not double
> > stacked.
> >
> > OK, COFC is good. But were they still around
> > c.1990?
> >  
>
> Maybe one or two, but it would have been rare by
> then.   K-Line and NYK had schemes out during
> your time era that were kind of close to the ones
> Athearn is showing, but not exact.

OK, thanks. That's consistent with what I remember seeing. Even though I hoped I might be able to justify buying a few of these, I probably won't. It seems like the "workhorses" of my era for doublestack cars would be the plate-wall cans that A-Line/Intermountain produce, the Walthers 48' containers, and the early 40 and 45-foot corrugated cans that Athearn, Walthers, and Atlas have produced, at least in certain paint schemes.

toledopatch Wrote:
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> SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> > The 40' containers would be useful to me; they
> > look like 1970's/early 1980's type.  Other
> some
> > of the box cars may be useful too.
> >
>
> I saw those, too, and found myself wondering how
> many containers of that design were still in
> service by 1990. I don't remember seeing them in
> the stack trains I saw then, but might there have
> been a few (other than retired ones used for
> storage)?

70s-80s vintage sheet-and-post "smooth side" dry containers were the exception by the 1990s, since corrugated was king, but I saw a shot a few.  Here's a shot I took (print) of a Showa smooth-side can loaded on the top position of a well car, circa 1996/97 (around the time SP was pillaged), in Long Beach CA, at SP's Dolores Yard.  Can't duplicate this shot anymore, since you'd be standing in the Alameda corridor now, and pretty much everything in the scene is gone, except for Alameda St. and the Carson St. overpass in the background. 

I bought a few of the WKW 40' "1970s" smooth-side containers in Showa to add to my 80s and 90s-era SP stack trains...been busy weathering them a bit to get them ready for service.  Regardless, there were a few smooth-side containers in service by the 90s, and depending upon the paint scheme, you might be able to sneak in a few, too.  I'll probably grab some of these new containers in NYK and MOL, since I vaguely recall seeing similar cans in service around then, and will add a bit of variety.  That, and they look cool. :)

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OK, that's a bit more encouraging. I might get the K-Line and Mitsui OSK ones.

Fizzboy7 Wrote:
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> Most of those containers would be riding on 86/89'
> flats or on trailer chassis, not double stacked.
>
> Jason Eminian
> Smith Brothers Hobby Center

Thats how I've seen them in photo's on the D&RGW in the 1970's, on 89' COFC flat cars.  Now I'll have to hunt down some of those that Atlas produced a few years ago.  These days most of the 89' flat cars Atlas seems to be offering are foobies.

Cheers, Jim Fitch
 

Fox Valley the Maserk unit with sound. I saw yesterday that MB Klein had in stock.

Stanley Jackowski
Valrico, FL

Nice looking SP stack car, btw.

TCnR Wrote:
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> Nice looking SP stack car, btw.

I agree!

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COFC was still quite common in Canada in the early 1990ies.  It is still likely that International loading coming down could have been possible.

Rick

What month are you guys in???

When I go to Athearn's website and click on their July announcements, I get the items which you guys mention in this thread.

I think you're thinking too much like Model Railroader magazine's releases. 

Rick

rschonfelder Wrote:
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> What month are you guys in???
>
> When I go to Athearn's website and click on their
> July announcements, I get the items which you guys
> mention in this thread.
>
> I think you're thinking too much like Model
> Railroader magazine's releases. 
>
> Rick

Apparently Athearn announces the months new items late in the previous month.  This has come up before and it's a bit confusing since some refer to them as the following months announcements when that month hasn't arrived yet.  I just let my brain go dead and try not to figure it out.

Speaking of items, Athearn just got in a bunch of items including the HO Ortner 5-bay rapid discharge hoppers announced last August 2015.  I just ordered the two 5-packs of CSUX (CSDPU) hoppers for D&RGW operations between 1979 and 1986.  Originally I had only bought the CSDU lettered cars which are good for 1986 and later, but have decided to backdate mostly to caboose era D&RGW; I didn't have any of the CSDPU cars so over the past several years I've been hunting those down and have found four 5-packs.  The newest run adds some new numbers.  I've sold some of my duplicatge numbers of CSDU cars to help fund the replacements.

Cheers, Jim Fitch