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Athearn engines are really good, I've got about 6 or 7 of them. For a person who is a beginner to Model Railroading they're a great buy, however, I've noticed that as a person increases their interest in model railroading they get to wanting better engines, such as the higher end Athearn Ready to Roll, Kato, Atlas, Athearn Genesis, etc. So, a good idea would be to buy a few athearn engines to get started, maybe 10 or less, but be prepared because eventually the need to buy better quality engines will come. And, I think it is possible to upgrade an Athearn engine as time goes along, like adding detail parts if you want them and you can wire a DCC chip to them as you advance deeper into the hobby. I am to the point where I am going to start buying only Atlas, Athearn RTR, and Athearn Genesis engines from now on, but I still intend on using my older Athearn locomotives and upgrading maybe 2 or 3 of them to DCC eventually. Overall though, they are good engines.
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