Athearn April Announcements

[Chulvis]

PS-2 2893 Covered Hopper MSRP $19.98 Delivery: September
ATH23800 - 802    PS-2 2893 Covered Hopper: CB&Q (3 Numbers)
ATH23803 - 805    PS-2 2893 Covered Hopper: Central of Georgia (3 Numbers)
ATH23806 - 808   PS-2 2893 Covered Hopper: Atlantic Sugar (3 Numbers)
ATH23809 - 811   PS-2 2893 Covered Hopper: Erie Lackawanna (3 Numbers)
ATH23812 - 814   PS-2 2893 Covered Hopper: MCDX/Grupo Cementos (3 Numbers)
ATH23815 - 817   PS-2 2893 Covered Hopper: Sacramento Northern (3 Numbers)

57ft Mechanical Reefer (With Slogans) MSRP $15.98 Delivery: August
ATH17462 - 464   57ft Mechanical Reefer: BNFE - Safety is No Accident (3 Numbers)
ATH17465 - 467   57ft Mechanical Reefer: BNFE - Teamwork promotes safety (3 Numbers)
ATH17468 - 470   57ft Mechanical Reefer: BNFE - Safety-think about it (3 Numbers)
ATH17471 - 473   57ft Mechanical Reefer: BNFE - Safety is the future(3 Numbers)
ATH17474 - 476   57ft Mechanical Reefer: BNFE -Safety You're the winner (3 Numbers)

[asarge]

Not much this month.

[MichaelWinicki]

EL covered hoppers... 

Yeah, I could see myself getting those.

[2-8-8-0]

Not a thing for me  :-[

[wazzou]

I think I'll grab one of those Sac Northern covered hoppers, just because that's where I grew up...or was raised.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

EL covered hoppers... 

Yeah, I could see myself getting those.

I'm kinda tempted myself too. Now that I think I've decided I'm going to be having a salt terminal on the layout.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Someone likes refers. I wish they would do their ACF centerflow in ealier schemes. I would like to replace my old Atlas stand bys.

[H Lee]

For the umpteenth month in a row I am UNDER-whelmed by Athearn's commitment to N scale.

I do admit that some of their N scale stuff is very good. Their Ford trucks and Firetrucks / covered hoppers / 40' trailers / Big Boy / Challenger / 2-8-0 / 2-6-0.

But too much of what they are doing is simply the old MDC stuff (like the reefers this time) simply with new trucks and McHenry's.

OR duplicating other products - have never understood why they chose to do the 50' PS-1 when MT has been issuing them for years. And they don't seem to be great sellers for them.

[Robbman]

Thought the 50' PS-1 is MDC tooling, wasn't that their last new car?

[Mark5]

Thought the 50' PS-1 is MDC tooling, wasn't that their last new car?

Yup.

[bbussey]

Isn't only the single sliding door model former MDC tooling?  I thought the additional door variants were new Athearn tools.

[ljudice]

Bryan - the single plug door car was also MDC...  

As far as Athearn and N-scale, I've got to give them an A+ for the Ethanol and LPG cars - not to mention some of the other new cars they have done.  

The SP caboose, for example, is in - or beyond - the league of anything I've ever seen (or owned) from Overland, for example.