How Many Athearn Cars do you have?

[Anonymous]

About 45 freight cars, ( approx. 40% of my total.)
7 cabooses, ( 70% of my total.)
.....Quite a few freight car / caboose are Bev-Bel units.
7 passenger cars, ( approx. 50% of my total ).
5 diesel locos ( of 11 active diesel units )
0 steam locos ( of 4 active steamer units ).
Good thread....BY Athearn fans, FOR Athearn fans.....with only one exception so far, albeit an expected one.
regards,
Mike

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by robmik


Good thread....BY Athearn fans, FOR Athearn fans.....with only one exception so far, albeit an expected one.
regards,
Mike

Thanks Mike

The intention was to let the new owners know how we felt about their product as much as this sounds like a cliche Athearn was an institution for most of us growing up in the hobby. Hopefully this will continue.

[Anonymous]

Excellent intent, Fergie....you bet it's an institution...I still have Athearn cars [ and at least 2 diesel shells] running from 1956 Athearn production, albeit with KD wheels & couplers. Some still have Irv's original sprung trucks.
regards.
Mike[:D][:D]

[electromotive]

About 20 left and they are in boxes...Sold off the rest,, my collection goes back 40 yrs..
I like the better detailed stuff out there today..
Not enough kits to build now, and ready to run you buy less..

[Anonymous]

7 or 8, plus 2 F3's, a PA1 and a PB1.
Now that Horizon Hobby has taken over Athearn, I read in a newsletter they sent to my hobby shop that they will be "the exclusive distributor for all Athearn products". To me, that bodes ill, since only Horizon will be able to control the prices. I don't see them giving a lot of discounts like you could get if you bought from a major distributor through your hobby shop.

I guess that's the way it's going to be, though. I understand the business side of it - after all, the business of a business is to make a profit and to make its stock more profitable to its shareholders.

Since most of my rolling stock is in HO, I can work on the Proto 2000 series cars, or get some of the Walthers cars, as well as the other manufacturers' cars. If I see that Athearn is getting too expensive, well, I guess I'll have to learn how to scratch-build.

[trainsrus1]

I have 316 pieces of rolling stock in a fleet of 450 that are Athearn or were Athearn before modifications were made. There are also 21 engines from Athearn still running in a fleet of 32. I have 4 oldies still running on rubber bands that can out pull anything else one on one.

[CBQ_Guy]

Easily in the hundreds...but I'm one of those old time "good enough" modelers...Gasp!

[Anonymous]

let's see.... I have about 350 pieces or Athearn rolling stock, including those custom painted & sold by companies such as Bev-Bel. That's about 40% of the total fleet.