lets see 1 2 3 …50 51 52 53 54…81 82 … 101 102 103 104 105…150
there you go 150.
Frt 95/677 approx.
Pass 23/73
Caboose 11/23
diesel 21/165 (includes RPP shells on Athearn)
steam 2/43
i know for sure i have at least 7. but the rest of my stuff i bought with out boxes from a guy at a show. i think all of that or most anyways is Athearn. so probably 90% of my rolling stock is and one locomotive.
I have so many Athearn pieces of rolling stock, engines and passenger cars that I can’t count them on my hands & toes. I bought the 1st one in 1972 & I still have it in the box. Happy New Year from the frozen tundra of eastern Washington. Charlie
Never owned an Athern product on purpose. May have gotten one or two out of the LHS dead pile for weathering or air brush practice targets. Wrong era and poor relative quality are the reasons.
I don’t imagine the recent purchase of the company will result in many changes for the retail hobbyist. Athern has its position as an entry-level manufacturer firmly established. Hopefully the new situation will result in an expanded product line more interesting to advanced modelers.
I have 15 Kits that are assembled and on the rails, another 11 kits waiting to be assembled, and 1 RTR caboose. so 27 constitutes less than half my fleet. I am looking for SP 40’ flatcars. Or anything else in SP for that matter. Dan
I finally got around to it and I don’t have as many as I thought, Final count is 90 which is about 50% of my total, not including one “Mike” [V]
Where did those diesels come from?
I have over 200 metal Globe, metal Athearn and plastic Athean freight cars. Some are still on the layout, but are being replaced with high end detailed kits. I do have some Accurail, Walthers and MDC wood side cars going on the layout, but only after new free-standing details and full brake rigging have been added. The rest of the fleet comprises detailed resin kits.
Keep steaming.
Tom
most of my fleet of about 175 cars…I am guessing about 90 or so. They were at the time extremely reasonable in price when I was just getting into the hobby. They had their niche…maybe not for the top end modeler but for most everyone else what an easy way to make a fleet of cars in a hurry.
i have close to 600 freight and passenger cars and 250 diesel locomotives. 75% are athearn products. i have had very good luck with their engines and have spent many hours building the “kits”. all have kadee couplers and various levels of detail. only one problem to mention- the genesis sd75 locomotives i received had bad trucks, athearn sent replacement trucks quickly and the matter was resolved. many of my engines are painted in PRR livery. for the money and better than two decades service you can’t beat there line. SOOOO we’ll see what Horizon Hobbies brings to the table
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
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.
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]
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…
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.
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.
Easily in the hundreds…but I’m one of those old time “good enough” modelers…Gasp!
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.