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GP40P-2 in 2 SP schemes, FP7A's, SD70ACe's in NS and UP heritage schemes and NS's#1111.  Check their site for more items.

Thumbs up: SP Bicentennial GP40-P2 #3197 - COOL! must have!
Thumbs down: Still no SP ex-StLSW #6462 amongst the FP7's - bummer!

EO

My wallet is safe yet again!!!! No 86ft 4DR boxcars yet... Oh well

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/27/16 11:53 by MRL.

Hopefully we'll see them by the end of next year.. maybe. Love how they don't put a year next to the month
 



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The former Roundhouse High Cube... the artwork here shows it with a peaked roof.   This car did not have a peaked roof, if I recall that far back.    Can anyone confirm if it's supposed to have a flat roof?

Didn't take long at all for a flame.

http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/052716/01_Genesis_GP40P-2_052716.pdf?utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=View+PDF&utm_content=Athearn+News+-+June+New+Announcements&utm_campaign=052716_ATH_NEWS&_bta_tid=3.cUw.B1qBPg.F4fc.AU8gfg..Ag6WIg.b..s.AfhA.n...oYXXdw&_bta_c=dpa4dlzrqut2flifrsacase5y31uu

nygiant Wrote:
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> GP40P-2 in 2 SP schemes, FP7A's, SD70ACe's in NS
> and UP heritage schemes and NS's#1111.  Check
> their site for more items.

Seems that those who do need to get into the business as they seem to know what sells...................................?
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> Didn't take long at all for a flame.

For those interested in the NP FP7s, the following is from Page 31 of Sale Sanders' Northern Pacific book:

In 1952, NP purchased 6600 & 6601 for service on trains 61/62 between St. Paul & Duluth and 11/12 between St. Paul and International Falls. By the early 1960s, they could be found on trains 13/14  to Winnipeg.  Because of the relatively flat territory through which these trains ran, 6600 & 6601 were NP's only F units which did not have dynamic brakes. 

More Western favortism by Athearn!

KV1guy Wrote:
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> More Western favortism by Athearn!

You make it sound like a bad thing.  To be fair, Atlas tends to favor eastern railroads, Rapido Canadian, Bowser northeast so
someone has to favor the west which I, despite being in Virginia, am glad of.

Cheers, Jim Fitch



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The only aspect of "Western favoritism" on Athearn's part that irritates me is that most of the 13,000-gallon sulphuric acid tank cars its Genesis line has produced have been western prototypes. Would like to see more 1990-appropriate eastern cars (PROX, UTLX, GATX as appropriate for the model); the Grupo Mexico, Asarco, and other western prototypes hold no interest for me.