how many of you guys have rebuilt old athearn units. maybe even used other brands like tyco for scrathbuilding? Just curious as i may do this someday too. Share any pictures you have! [:)]
I have an old AHM GP-18 that I invested a lot of time and a few extra dollars in. First all the hand rails were all broken, one of the power trucks had a wobbly wheel and the motor was a stock unit. So, I replaced the hand rails with my own custom built set, custom painted it Southern Pacific, as a low nose GP-18, wired all 8 wheels for power instead of the 4 original installed an Alco motor with brass flywheels, installed a new AHM power trucks, all decals and details. Now it really wasn’t worth the time and effort put in it but I have had this one since I was about 13 years old and now I’m 42 so it must have been for nostalgic reasons. Sorry i couldn’t get the pics to load
I have repowered several Bachman E60CP’s with Athearn U33C mechanisms. Easy to do and runs much better