I recently aquired a large amount of HO scale locomotives that didn't run. While some of them were actually no good, most of them ran quite well after a little cleaning/lube. Most of them has the manufacterer name on the bottom somewhere but 1 in particular I can't seem to find it anywhere. From the internal workings it looks like an Athearn butI can't find a name anywhere. If it is in fact an Athearn, is there someplace I can look to find markings on it?
Michael
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Can you post some pictures here?? Most Athearn engines are not marked.
If it's not too much of a hassle, remove the shell and post pics of the drive mechanism. If it's an Athearn, especially a Blue Box, it will be obvious.
Marlon
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I'll try to get come pictures taken & posted tomorrow. Not sure how much luck I'll have posting.
When I first pulled the shell off I the blue box athears I had years ago & that is what makes me think it might be Athearn.
I took pictures of the locomotive but I'm having trouble uploading them to photobucket. Is there any other way to post pictures on here?
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I finally got photobucket to cooperate. To me this looks like an Athearn, am I right?
Looks like an old pre-80's Athearn to me.
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Looks like an Athearn blue box SW7.
- Mark
Yes, I had one of these and I believe that Athearn mistakenly called it an SW1500. Mine was new in 1989 or so and looked exactly the same as this one. Mine was painted for B.N. and I repainted it into an N.P. SW1200.
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I thought it was Athearn, just wasn't sure if anyone else had made locomotives that were put together like this. I really wish more manufacturers would put their name on equipment somewhere!