Athearn June announcements

[asarge]

Artwork will probably be available tomorrow. But the new tooling is the ACF 2970 Covered Hopper first roadnames as follows;

BN, BNSF, CNW Yellow, EL, GN, WM


3 ex-mdc cars also have new roadnames

50' Modern Tank
BNSF early, LLCX, Pemex, RTMX, ATSF, UTLX Black

57' Mechanical reefer
ARR, NRDX, PFE, SPFE, ARMN/UP, UPFE

50' Berwick
CNW, CP, CSX, D&M, G&W, GTW

Taht'sa bigger load of Ns cale from them than we've had in awhile.

[Denver Road Doug]

Did Athearn announce the ACF 2970's over the weekend?  (I do see that it says new tooling, but I didn't hear much over the roar of GEVO)  I don't remember hearing about them before.  I must say, I can think of a few dozen (hundred?) cars I would've chosen for new production over this one.

On a related note, did Athearn say anything about their parcel trailers?  These supposedly were unofficially "announced" at the NTS last year I believe but not a peep since.

[Mark5]

They are still sitting on the peaked end rib side 70 ton hoppers (last run by MDC)  >

[wm3798]

Damn!  I lose the pool again.  I had N&W replying within 2 hours of the original post...  He strung me out to 4 and change!  Who had four hours?  Tom? John?....

I really wanted that toaster oven, too.

Lee

[Mark5]

Hehehehe

tell him about the consolation prize, Johnny!

[GaryHinshaw]

Artwork will probably be available tomorrow. But the new tooling is the ACF 2970 Covered Hopper first roadnames as follows;

BN, BNSF, CNW Yellow, EL, GN, WM

Is this any different than the IM 2-bay?

[chessie system fan]

This is the Athearn car:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/wm/wm604969ato.jpg

I'm pretty excited about this car.  I'll be getting the WM car for sure!  I also recall that several Monon cars made it to CSX.

[Ryan87]

Is this any different than the IM 2-bay?

If it's the same as the HO model, yes.

The Athearn Car represents the earlier car with the single reinforcing rib along the side of the car.
http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=46899

The Intermountain represents a later version (post 1971) with Two smaller reinforcing "beads" along the top of the car side
http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=958

[James Costello]

I'm not a big fan of the IM 2 bay, so the Athearn car will be a welcome addition.

[Mark5]

I'm not a big fan of the IM 2 bay, so the Athearn car will be a welcome addition.

So we'll have these, the Atlas Trainman model, and M-T's version to boot! N scale is starting to mature.

[James Costello]

I'm not a big fan of the IM 2 bay, so the Athearn car will be a welcome addition.

So we'll have these, the Atlas Trainman model, and M-T's version to boot! N scale is starting to mature.

Yeah, you can keep the Trainman version though.

[asarge]

3 different versions of the same car. Yes, n scale sure is maturing. Now if it can just mature its way into an AS616.

[sirenwerks]

Well, all right. Athearn can serve up some of those in GN, NP & CB&Q please. ATSF have 'em?

[asarge]

I don;t think Santa Fe did.

[wm3798]

I'm not a big fan of the IM 2 bay, so the Athearn car will be a welcome addition.

So we'll have these, the Atlas Trainman model, and M-T's version to boot! N scale is starting to mature.

Yeah, you can keep the Trainman version though.

I keep two of the Trainman version... two for the price of one! 
Lee