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I love my athearns, I have everything from the old diecast metal trucked diesels from the late 60's and 70's up to a brand new Genesis ATSF F3 with sound which is a wonder to behold. The sound, once adjusted to the particular unit is awsome and correct for a F unit. The sound needed its volume lowered across the board, was factory set at maximum, The horn was set for a 3 chime, which while the ATSF had those in later years, the F3's had single chime blats originaly, just have to program that, very easy. I just bought a Athearn PA that has sat in storage for almost 25 yrs. While dusty and dirty, she still runs. This one predates flywheels. Bought it for $15 at a show today. Nothing broken, just a bit dirty. Lets see some of these newer superdetailed units be in this shape in 25+ years. Some simple maintance is all an Athearn blue box unit needs. The only real upgrade I do is replace the metal contact strip with a soldered wire. Remember this newer stuff is assembled in China and those workers could care less how well it is greased. The older stuff was USA built with pride and while a bit noisy sometimes, older athearns always run. I have boxes of blue box locomotive parts that will enable my units to run indefinatly. The newer units are a bit more fagile in the detail dept. Heck the Genesis F unit is museum quality. Cheers Mike
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