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Having purchased Athearn locomotives and cars for almost 25 years, I think I can honestly say that if it were not for their quality, affordability, and selection, the hobby would not have advanced in the way it has. I'm almost certain that modeling for me would have ended with the Tyco Christmas trainset! Not many warbonnet C636's running around the ATSF, and that first Athearn SD40-2 was like the REAL THING! The sheer desire to have handrails on it, took the hobby to another level. Not only was running the trains fun, turning a BB kit into a reasonable model taught a 13yr old valuable skills. It was something that could be taken apart and put back together and still run the same as it did when purchased(if not better!). Today, almost every model loco on the market has some variation of the same Athearn mechanism around back then! For me the only "opportunity missed" is thinking what it would have been like without Athearn!
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