Athearn April Announcements

[asarge]

50' PS1 Boxcars
CR
SAL
SOU
WP

30k Ethanol Tank Cars
GATX/Soy
Procor Green
TILX

Also, they will now start offereing their own metal wheelsets for their trucks.

Ooop didn;t see this sheet until i turned it over

2 pack 28' trailers w/dolly
CF
Roadway
Roadway express
YRC
Owner Operator

[ai5629]

I looked on the Athearn web site, and the 50' Conrail car depicted is straight from the Conrail Historical Web site, class 864B / CR210655.  (Ed / Sean, did you have anything to do with this?)  I also just saw a photo of it in the MS CR Color Guide.  The Athearn car is a PS prototype, while the 864B was a NYC Despatch Shops built car.  The PS ends are close, but incorrect.  The roof is incorrect and the prototype is rivited while the PS is welded.  Athearn could have modeled the correct car in the Conrail fleet is they had chosen the ex Erie class BE52D shown on page 64 in the Guide, CR267869.  There is a partial photo of another one of these cars with a big logo on page 67 (267906 coupled to 271711).  There is a full photo of 267906 on the Conrail Cyclopedia web site.  I decaled four 862B/863B/864B's back in the mid 90's using MT cars even though they are incorrect.  I did not know of the BE52D's at the time.  I will pick up the Athearn cars to support their choice of modeling Conrail cars.  Maybe I will renumber and reclass one to CR267906.  Thanks.

Jeff

[asarge]

My hope is that they do away with the roofwalks on the Conrails. The schemes on teh Ethanol Tank Cars are nice also.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

I may get the CR PS1 though they were pretty much gone by 98. The trailers look tempting but I want the damn Mack R cab with them.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I don't remember seeing anything come across my email about the CR boxes. But I'm not complaining!

I do hope they do the smaller logo, because the larger one is starting to get done to death, considering it was only used for a few years.

[TiVoPrince]

CF 
trailers look mighty darn tempting.  $25.00US price means that they need to be spectacular to be coming home with me...

[asarge]

It's the lrge logo Ed.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Arrgh. Another manufacturer going for the "flashy" stuff... with the Atlas Trainman cars out there with the same logo and serving in the same service, these might just tip the scale of "too many of that style already".

[SkipGear]

I would buy all 10 of the TILX cars in a heartbeat, if they would do them without the flashy added logo's. I see trains full of them all the time and not a single one has more than TILX printed on the side of them. I think I have maybe seen one with a VeraSun logo, and it wasn't this style tank. (I know the Athearns aren't a prefect match either)

Give me plain jane tank cars!!!!



This started a string of 20 brand new cars. I wouldn't even need to weather them to model the train, just dress up the wheels with a little rust on them and blue axle caps.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Ed, how many PS1s made it to a small modern logo? I thought these were all repainted early and retired by the mid 80's.

[GaryHinshaw]

Give me plain jane tank cars!!!!

+1. 

And I would love it if they produced this car with the smaller TILX-style railings and plumbing up top.  Given that they produced 3 different styles of LPG tanker, it is not inconceivable (though not likely).  At least they released several plain UTLX cars.

-gfh

[asarge]

Skipgear, was that picture taken on the I&O ex B&O Columbus line?

[Ian MacMillan]

Yay more Roadway trailers! I wish they would redo the St Johnsbury and Yellow ones...staples of New England in the 80s and 90s.

[SkipGear]

Skipgear, was that picture taken on the I&O ex B&O Columbus line?

Sort of, in the valley heading NE out of Loveland. It's the Ohio Division between Loveland and Midland City. The grade crossing is for Goshen Murdock road. The line now turns North to Washington Courthouse instead of continuing east toward Chillicothe now. What's left of the East line ends at Leesburg / Greenfield.