Athearn N Announcements 4/26/2019

[Mark5]

Friday, April 26, 2019

New/Popular paint schemes
New 3-Packs
New truck tooling (I wonder what this means)

PDF: http://www.athearn.com/newsletter/042619/08_N_52ft_Mill_Gon_042619.pdf

http://www.athearn.com/Search/Default.aspx?SearchTerm=52%27+Gondola&CatID=TNRF

[nscalbitz]

Well you can't say they aren't competing with the smaller players game with multiple numbers, packs and pricing etc.

But just comparing to say another large manfr, who seems to be doing themselves a disservice by punching up the quality (good) and prices a bit far (bad).

Truck: without doing any research at all possibly a 'modernised' 100T for the non-specific prototype style (wondering to self who has soo many MDC gons anyway- are they actually IL 52' or proper IL 52'6" per proto and just saving PR space?).

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[ljudice]

A little creativity on second, third owners, patches, fading would be nice...

[Spades]

Friday, April 26, 2019

New truck tooling (I wonder what this means)

They replaced the talgo truck with a no truck coupler?

[sundowner]

Cool, I been wanting some Railgons gons lately.
I been digging and buying lots of Athearn lately because of them going body mount on all there cars, hope your paying attention Atlas, Kato and IM.
Hopefully the new truck are the lowering variety.

[ednadolski]

New truck tooling (I wonder what this means)

Rotating roller bearing caps.   

Ed

[DKS]

Rotating roller bearing caps.   

Dream on! Now, it wouldn't surprise me if some enterprising N Scale modeler achieved this. But as a mass-produced product? And one that rolled as well as needle-points do now? Doubtful. But we can dream, right?

[cjm413]

Cool, I been wanting some Railgons gons lately.
I been digging and buying lots of Athearn lately because of them going body mount on all there cars, hope your paying attention Atlas, Kato and IM.
Hopefully the new truck are the lowering variety.

I was thinking the same thing, as these cars would need to be lowered a bit for frame-mounted couplers

[ednadolski]

New truck tooling (I wonder what this means)

Rotating roller bearing caps.   

Dream on! Now, it wouldn't surprise me if some enterprising N Scale modeler achieved this. But as a mass-produced product? And one that rolled as well as needle-points do now? Doubtful. But we can dream, right?

I was originally going to say Proto:160 wheels

Ed