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Locomotive Identification
Posted by Michael6792 on Thursday, March 7, 2013 4:49 AM

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?

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Posted by bobwrght on Thursday, March 7, 2013 5:14 AM

Can you post some pictures here?? Most Athearn engines are not marked.

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Posted by Medina1128 on Thursday, March 7, 2013 7:08 AM

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.

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Posted by Michael6792 on Thursday, March 7, 2013 6:01 PM

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.

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Posted by Michael6792 on Friday, March 8, 2013 8:26 PM

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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Posted by Michael6792 on Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:46 PM

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Posted by Michael6792 on Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:51 PM

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Posted by Michael6792 on Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:52 PM

I finally got photobucket to cooperate. To me this looks like an Athearn, am I right?

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:03 PM

Looks like an old pre-80's Athearn to me.

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Posted by Adelie on Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:04 PM

Looks like an Athearn blue box SW7.

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Posted by NP2626 on Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:40 PM

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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Posted by "JaBear" on Friday, March 15, 2013 4:55 AM

"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."

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Posted by Michael6792 on Friday, March 15, 2013 6:31 AM

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!

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