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Sorry I'm the one who has to tell you guys this, well here we go. I posted here before saying I was going to get a SD40-2 that I was going to letter for my Allentown Scranton & Northern, note that I said I WAS. I was going to get a Conrail so I could just paint the nose red and get rid of the lettering (the AS&Ns paint scheme is CR blue with SP "bloody nose" paint on the nose and back of the units). There are four good hobby shops in a hours drive that a month ago all had two or three Athearn CR SD40s (one had a couple for six or seven months and nobody bought). Well I just got back from a four hobby shop adventure and not a single one had a CR SD40 (and where almost wiped out of all other Athearn units). All of them said that they weren't able to one for me because Horizon decide to discontinue all Athearn product exept R-T-R stuff and Genesis stuff. One hobbyshop owner said they (Horizon) are going convert everything to RTR and that it was going to cost 90 bucks for one SD40-2! This same one had a SD40 a few months ago for 40 dollers! I can't beleve I will have to pay 90 dollers for a Athearn engine when I can get a Kato, Atlas, and Spectrum engine that are nicer and more detailed for 10 dollers more! It would be a nightmare painting a RTR engine so I might have to stop my AS&N plan. I thought of a few more alternatives and here they are: Scrachbuild, that would be fun, I would just need a Athe... Next Railpower, I would just nead a few detail parts and a Athea... Never mind Kitbash, I could make a SD38 or a SD50 or a SD45-2 using the article in a MR I have on making things from a Athea... Cut Kato SD40-2, can't afford it. as you can see I'll have to buy chepo fall apart right away engines for now on thanks to Horizon. Horizon should have thought about us teens and new comers to the hobby before raising the prices on Athearn units! Now when you think Athearn you will think of overpriced junk. As I said before sorry I'm the one to tell you this, I was going to tell everyone about my new engine but now I have to go on every hobbyshop website in the world (acculy I found one after going on six or seven websites) to find one and give you guys the bad new that Horizon has turned Athearn from affordable good runnng engines to overpriced garbage. P.S. Does anyone know what the Horizon website is called? I want to email them to see whats going on with raising the prices a third (even though its going to RTR I would rather save money putting it together that pay 90 bucks). [:(][:(][:(]
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