Athearn June announcements

[Mark5]

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

That would be 4 versions.

[asarge]

OOps, forgot about MTL. Sorry Joe!

[asarge]

Also just saw on a delaer email they are doing the 53' Bulkehad flats too. They are re-runs of same roadnames/numbers so here they are

BN, CB&Q, NP, GN, SOO, TTX Brown

[SkipGear]

Is it just me or is Athearn suddenly cranking out the product? In HO they had close to 20 cars announced this month. Much more than normal. N had 5 announcements. Earlier this year we were lucky to see 4-5 HO and 1 N announcement. The pricing seems pretty good for all these PE details also.  The prices on the boxcars have come down a couple bucks.

[TrainCat2]

National Train Show ....

[SkipGear]

I don't remember them doing this last year for the show, although they had the announcement of the HO turbines to show off then.

[asarge]

Tony,

They usually have more stuff to announce May-Jul as it gets delivered at the peak seaon of Late Oct-Jan.....if they are on time.....the NTS also helps as they usually have some brande new tooling to announce in one scale or another. They now have 3 newly tooled cars to be delivered in N. Maybe there will be room for another one or a new loco for the NTS.

[James Costello]

Body-mounted McHenry's on the new covered hopper too....... interesting!

[Mark5]

Body-mounted McHenry's on the new covered hopper too....... interesting!

Yeah that's pretty cool. I hope it's a standard pocket so I can easily switch to M-T's. I'm not a fan of the N McHenry's (they are too long).

Mark

[asarge]

Yeah that's pretty cool. I hope it's a standard pocket so I can easily switch to M-T's. I'm not a fan of the N McHenry's (they are too long).

There might just be an announcement about different shank lengths......this year.....decade.......century.

[Mark5]

Yeah that's pretty cool. I hope it's a standard pocket so I can easily switch to M-T's. I'm not a fan of the N McHenry's (they are too long).

There might just be an announcement about different shank lengths......this year.....decade.......century.

I'm not sure if the shank length will help, the "knuckle" itself is kinda long.

[sizemore]

I don't know guys they need to come down in price a tad, 3 for $45 gets pricey when you want 6 or 12.

[cfritschle]

According to the photos posted and the artwork, the Athearn ACF 2970 Centerflow covered hopper is the pre-1971 version.  The Micro-Trains, Atlas and Intermountain cars are all post 1971 versions. 

J n J attempted to make a pre-1971 version of a 2 bay Centerflow by using an old Atlas 4 bay model that had been shortened as the master for their casting.  I never bothered to build mine because it required too much modification to match the Union Pacific cement cars I was trying to model.

I for one am thankful that Athearn chose to make a quality model of the earlier version.

Carter

[Mark5]

I for one am thankful that Athearn chose to make a quality model of the earlier version.

Carter

Me too! The PS 2600 is excellent - Athearn has definately been raising the bar on their rolling stock.

[wazzou]

I for one am thankful that Athearn chose to make a quality model of the earlier version.

Carter

I agree.