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 Posted - October 28 2006 : 04:22:30 AM
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While we have all kicked around the poor attempt at an F-T by American, Train & Track, I did run across their other F-unit.
Not that anybody will get confused thinking they are viewing an Athearn Genesis, but this ATT F-9A wasn't too bad when you think how misguided the tooling is on the ATT F-T...
The biggest spotting feature of this F-9A is probably the missing rear step. Believe the louvers ahead of the porthole just behind the cab door and the large radiator fan does make this model a semi-accurate F-9A and this model was out in the late '60s to my knowledge. That would make ATT's F-9A the first example in plastic on the HO-scale market. The Bachmann F-9A is next in 1970-71.
Beyond ATT's issue, I know Model Power sold a close relative to this F-9 for a time in either the late '70s or the 1980s.
Have seen some eBay auctions that attribute this F-9A to AHM, however I don't think I've ever seen one boxed and labeled AHM. To my knowledge AHM's only HO-scale F-unit was the F-TA that is very similar to today's Bachmann F-TA shell. And though I don't think I own examples of all AHM catalogs, the numerous ones I have do not show an F-9A.
Perhaps someone else might know of AHM ever offering this model?
For TYCO reference, I am pretty certain that the Rock Island F-units packed in train sets in the early '90s are based on this old ATT tooling and made in Yugoslovia...as this model was made there too. Again, these are the train sets from the very bitter end of TYCO's train offerings 1990-1993 and usually display the then-gone Shark Nose Diesel on the box, but contained a red-and-yellow Rock Island F-9A that used this tooling.
I also own a Rock Island Alco FA-1 or FA-2, or some combination of the two prototypes squeezed onto one ill-created shell, in one of the substituted late era TYCO Rock Island Shark Nose train sets. The FA loco carries the RSO Yugoslovia raised letters on its fuel tank. I think the sub TYCO F-9A also has RSO Yugoslovia on its fuel tank.
Tony Cook
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Posted - October 29 2006 : 2:41:49 PM
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Here's an absolutely 110%-prototypically accurate representation of the BN's Cascade Green scheme as applied to an F-unit...
eBay Item#160045927337
It's also the American, Track & Track F-9A shell...though I didn't think they lasted long enough in the market to have offered BN...but then looking at that scheme, maybe nobody at ATT ever did really see a BN unit. Yikes, even the BN logo is wicked.
BTW, the eBay seller deserves special mention for listing this as being in BN's "warbonnet" paint...well with the BNSF now that's kinda sorta in the ball park. At least he didn't say it was in BN's Brunswick Green. [:o)]
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Posted - October 29 2006 : 3:30:07 PM
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quote:| Yikes, even the BN logo is wicked. |
[:0] The Alligator Jaws of doom, I tells ya!
If that IS an authentic factory job, you can add another to the roll of flubbed BN interpretations. The more you see, the more amusing that situation is!
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