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Me and the kid did a spur of the moment train show last Sunday after mass ...picked up some nice stuff....

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A red box item...


A brown box item....


And as you can see in the first picture A brand new Athearn Set and some postwar Lionel alcos that I have been looking to find for about 26 years !
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Wow, nice spur of the moment stuff... You never know what you might find.

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Love those Alco's! Glad you finally found them, holy moly that's a long time to look.

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Great finds! The Athearn set is sweet.
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an a-b-a would be sweet in the acl paint. i wish there was train shows around here, but there hasn't been one in several years.
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I love those Athearn sets. The Iron Horse or Warbonnet set should have been under every kid's Christmas tree. Great starter sets.
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I love those Athearn sets. The Iron Horse or Warbonnet set should have been under every kid's Christmas tree. Great starter sets.


So true !!!

and as a aside...we have about a half dozen Athearn engines and are used to there smooth running characteristics...this new one however had a thumping noise in the front truck (very obvious something was wrong) ...a call to Athearn out in California and after speaking to Chuck a new front truck is now on its way to us...this type of service is long gone in this hobby...Lionel and MTH would not be so easy to deal with a situation like this.

Athearn gets a A plus for there efforts !!!

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This new one however had a thumping noise in the front truck (very obvious something was wrong)

Originally posted by taycotrains-January 07 2010: 5:28:50 PM



Sounds like the dreaded cracked axle gear syndrome. This is the first time I've heard of this with new Athearn.
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Sounds like the dreaded cracked axle gear syndrome. This is the first time I've heard of this with new Athearn.


I can not say for sure Nelson what the problem is ...I can say this much...I tried this set out on Tuesday night and found the problem,called Athearn at 11:00 EST on Wednesday and described the problem...the part was at my house on Friday and the train is now fixed !
That is really fast service IMO.

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