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cudaken, I had an oppertunity to buy a matched set of 4 Athearn Blue Box F units years ago and for 70 dollars I would have. But I already heard and seen the announcement that the "Genesis" F units were coming out soon with my roadname and much better detail. I held off. Ultimately there are quite a few models of the F units availible now but I only wanted to choose just one set. The BLI set is everything I could want. If they released another F unit set, I wont want one now.I am in experience with the older AHM articulaeds that I was allowed to run as a young person from time to time and it performed very well. Having two of them (Big boy and a Y6b) start about 50 feet worth of rolling stock with a slack run out of at least one foot was an experience.That was back before DCC, metal wheels, kaydees etc even existed. All of that was with good old 12 volt with beefy amps to combat the track resistance.We have just too many Big Boys, the manufactors are cranking em out by the dozen while the EM-1's and other engines get neglected. There is money potential and I will be willing to spend it on one or two articuleds each year but because all I see are "Big Boys" Challengers and such... I dont have anything worth buying unless I went to brass.I probably will cave in and BUY a big boy and be done with it at some point in the future but the engine will most likely sit in the box for 15-30 sad years becuase there is no real reason to run it except to have the "Ooh" from a visitor or two. I already have a roundhouse FULL of oohs ready to go.
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