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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by electrolove</i> <br /><br />I did not know that Genesis F9 is a Highliner shell on an Athearn chassis and drive, interesting... <br /> <br />So the best thing must be to use a Stewart chassis and drive with a Highliner body? Then I get a superb running loco and good looking too. <br /> <br />Have someone tried that? <br /> <br />[img]http://www.walthers.com/prodimage/79939881/03201283034475.gif[/img] <br /> <br />[img]http://www.walthers.com/prodimage/79939881/03201283034487.gif[/img] <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I purchased about twenty Highliner shells when they were first available about fifteen years or so ago. Only the B units were available from Highliner until Athearn came along, but I mounted them on Stewart drives by Kato. They are the best of both worlds and just continue to run. <br /> <br />You can use the Proto 1000 drive units also, but you have to work on the close coupling details to use them. The Proto 1000 drives are great runners and deserve a lot of respect, but the shells are very dated and not current. The great thing about these is they were blowing them out for twenty bucks only last year. <br /> <br />When Athearn came along and purchased the rights to market the A and B units, I was excited about the project until I started to run some of them. The first Athearn drive units were poor at best and some were so erratic, I replaced those with Kato drives. <br />I soon learned and complained to Athearn about the problems and they always offered to fix them if I would send them in. I always refused and started replacing the out of round wheels and gear sets with the Kato wheel sets. This actually fixed most of the erratic running qualities of the first year Athearn units. They have since upgraded the wheel sets and gears and advertised that they upgraded the drive train on the F units. I do own some of the latest ones, read last year, and they do run better without too many problems. <br /> <br />The fact remains that the Highliner shells are probably the best in the market today and have set standards that few other can meet. My Overland and Oriental F units certainly take a back seat overall to the Genesis looks. <br /> <br />The Intermountain shells are great also, but one cut below the Athearn shells. The Genesis line does have the stainless plating for the units that require that look and it is as good as it gets. The Intermountain drive is excellent and they should get credit for their efforts also. <br /> <br />I keep wondering, how many more F units can we stand with BLI now bringing in a complete set of F7's and I believe they will do F3's also. Maybe Lionel will come back into the HO market and finally build an F unit. Sorry about that comment. <br /> <br /><font size="3"><font color="red">There must be an unwritten rule that you must make an F unit to be known!!</font id="red"></font id="size3">
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