I bought an old Athearn loco from E-Bay and these things were in the box with the loco. Would someone please tell me what they are or what they are used for?
Thanks, John
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To me they look like weights. I have a few older Athearn locos and the weights look similar and they fit in the top of the locos body. They also may just be some stuff that the old owner put in the box. Hope this helps.
Looks like weights for tank cars.
I think they’re rubber bands, but that’s just a guess… [:D]
They’re weights for the loco. As said, they fit into the top of the shell.
Athearn has never had glue in weights for engines that I know of and I have been in the hobbyfor forty years. I agree that they appear to be tank car weights. No engine I can possibly think of has a continuously curved roofline like the curve of those weights.
Thanks for the remarks. I thought they might be weights, but I couldn’t see how they would fit anywhere on the engine.
Very funny Medina, “Rubber Bands”, but the technical term is elastic binders.
Thanks again, John
I don’t think they belong to the engine at all, and they probably don’t have much to do with model railroading, either. I bought an engine house from e-bay and ended up with a lot of extra chimneys. Next time you sell something on e-bay, put them in the box and send them to someone else.
Don’t put added weights into a box you are mailing. That will only increase the postage cost!
They are whatchamacallits. They were invented while Custer was a cadet at West Point and were replacements for the well-known thingamajigs of previous decades.
Seriously, though (and I’m not quite sure why) they sure look like the kind of weights that would fit into a tank car.