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ljudice

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Re: Athearn Acid Tankers. FOOBs?
« Reply #45 on: June 15, 2016, 12:36:48 PM »
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MB Klein has them on an "inventory reduction sale":


My money is safe.

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Re: Athearn Acid Tankers. FOOBs?
« Reply #46 on: June 15, 2016, 02:59:26 PM »
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My money is safe.

They are well decorated, but a $2 discount isn't getting me in the acid hauling business.
Peter Pfotenhauer

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Re: Athearn Acid Tankers. FOOBs?
« Reply #47 on: June 15, 2016, 03:48:37 PM »
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Ahearn has better tanks in there catalogue, this seem out of places.
Which ever side of the track I am on is the right side.

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Re: Athearn Acid Tankers. FOOBs?
« Reply #48 on: June 15, 2016, 09:38:11 PM »
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I, my personal opinion of course, is that this is a major loss of ""smarts" by somebody or group in Athearn.  This screw up will do one of two things for Athearn. They will fold up on n scale releases or they will wake up to the fact that the customer base will pay higher prices for something that deserves it, but will not accept msrp's on an old worn out piece of c _ _ p such as these re-hashed, upgrade ?  ?, units that were sold several years ago well before other manufacturers started building much better tankcars. This just proves to me that Athearn cares little about n scale money and in fact will not see any from me until they can do something new in a timely manner, like an SP MT4.

Off the soap box, but still having fun,

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Re: Athearn Acid Tankers. FOOBs?
« Reply #49 on: June 16, 2016, 01:39:24 PM »
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They are well decorated, but a $2 discount isn't getting me in the acid hauling business.

Not gonna happen, not prudent at this juncture...  :lol: :D

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Re: Athearn Acid Tankers. FOOBs?
« Reply #50 on: June 16, 2016, 04:08:40 PM »
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Not gonna happen, not prudent at this juncture...  :lol: :D

And just in case my employer is searching, it's not getting me into acid business in any form.
Peter Pfotenhauer

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Re: Athearn Acid Tankers. FOOBs?
« Reply #51 on: June 20, 2016, 12:45:14 AM »
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Just to connect the dots...

Same company that tried to juice the last bit of life from the old MDC molds just dropped their autoracks. They are on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, and appear to be rather nice. Link to the thread: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=39314.0