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Anybody have a set of Athearn C&NW Overland Cars?
« on: November 04, 2013, 06:51:24 AM »
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I'm in the process of applying C&NW paint/decals to some Athearn Overland passenger cars, and while I was googling around looking for car numbers I discovered that Athearn actually released these in C&NW paint back in 2007  :facepalm:

Anyway, at this point I suppose they're super hard to find so I may as well just press on with my project. But if anyone has a set, can you tell me what numbers Athearn used on them? I'm finding very little prototype information on C&NW wood / open-platform cars and I haven't been able to track down any pictures of the models where the numbers are readable.

Thanks!
-Mark
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Re: Anybody have a set of Athearn C&NW Overland Cars?
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2013, 10:24:30 AM »
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I have the flyer and it has numbers for the CNW set.

Baggage/Combine - 826
Mail Car -1044
Coach - 3125
Business Car - 2937

Found another sheet.

Sleeper - 'Des Moines'
Coach - 3238



I can't say for sure that Athearn used these numbers, but that's what was on the announcement.

Jason
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Re: Anybody have a set of Athearn C&NW Overland Cars?
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2013, 10:46:54 AM »
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Cool, that seems to jibe with a set I looked up on eBay. The numbers are hard to make out, but those seem right. Thanks!

And I'm assuming Athearn did their research, right?  ;)

-Mark