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daniel_leavitt2000

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Good sale on Athearn 89' flats
« on: January 17, 2022, 01:21:02 PM »
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https://factorydirecthobbies.com/collections/athearn?_=pf&pf_t_scale=Scale_N&pf_t_stock_status=pfs-status%3AIn%20Stock

$15 each is certainly a good deal for these cars. I bought a few yellow TT cars to convert to RTTX and KTTX cars.
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Re: Good sale on Athearn 89' flats
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2022, 01:41:27 PM »
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Thanks for the heads up

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Re: Good sale on Athearn 89' flats
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2022, 02:44:07 PM »
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Yup. Thanks!

I had been on the fence about the XTTX cars, but at $16? I'll take em.

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Re: Good sale on Athearn 89' flats
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2022, 08:46:45 PM »
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Does anyone have a listing of what all the ?TTX reporting marks mean?  Would be nice if there is a short easy to read list out there
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Re: Good sale on Athearn 89' flats
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2022, 09:23:40 PM »
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Does anyone have a listing of what all the ?TTX reporting marks mean?  Would be nice if there is a short easy to read list out there

It has been covered a few times in various magazine articles but I haven't looked for an online source. It's also fluid and has changed over time.

While specific for the F89 flats, here's something I wrote a while ago that's pretty applicable to all 89' TOFC flats:
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=40536.msg502009#msg502009

The overall fleet for double stacks (DTTX), autoracks (ETTX, TTGX etc), spines (TTAX, NTTX, TTRX), 60' flats (HTTX, MTTX, OTTX) isn't too much larger or as complicated.
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Re: Good sale on Athearn 89' flats
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2022, 12:59:31 AM »
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That is a good price! Just checked and all they had was the brown Trailer Train scheme. Too old for my era... :(

But they still have some left if it fits your era.