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    Removing Athearn Decals

    I want to thank everyone for the replies. I got the lettering off last weekend but finally put one side of the decals on last night. The photo below show my progress. I realized the flag was the wrong one (it is from an SD70M and I should of used an AC4400CW flag) but I didn't have the AC4400CW...
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    Removing Athearn Decals

    I know there is already a trend started about removing paint and decals from engines but I don't want to get off subject in that one by asking another question. I am wanting to know if there is a way to just remove the decals (IE the numbers) off of an Athearn blue box unit. I would want to keep...
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    Number Boards

    Nice site. Thanks for the help. I have to go check to see which ones to order now. Thanks again. :)
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    Number Boards

    I am looking to up grade my Athearn blue box fleet to better match my Kato and Athearn Genesis units. One thing that I would like to do is get some realistic number boards, I am wondering how to go about doing that. I first thought that all you would need is some decals (where you would find the...
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    Estate Sale Findings

    Does anyone know if a set like that would be better to keep under plastic or to unwrap it?
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    Estate Sale Findings

    Someone put an add in the paper a few months ago that they had a big model train sale, they wanted to get rid of all of it. The son was selling off the late fathers collection and the place was just up the road (I didn't know they were in model trains :eek: ). My Dad and I went up there and was...
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    Proto 2K GP60s

    The majority of my fleet is Athearn blue box so I was just wondering if a Proto 2K would fight the other blue boxes alot. Yes, they are non DCC. I guess two Proto 2000 GP60 would look just as good as one. Thanks Ken. :)
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    Proto 2K GP60s

    I am looking for opinions about the Proto 2000 GP60s. I saw three of these running on a layout at the train show in San Antionio this weekend and at first impression, I am impressed. Does anyone know how well one of these would run with Athearn blue box geeps? Thanks. :)
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    Upgrading Athearns

    If you are going through all of that trouble to make a good model, I would improve the lighting. Richmond Controls makes great lights for the non digital locomotives. They come with bulbs and circuit board. All you have to do is install the lights and connect the wires and you are ready to go...
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    Athearn RTR Locos

    Does the RTR engines have better lighting. I have been running Athearn Genesis and Kato engines over my detailed Blue Box engines because of the sorry lighting. I have found a way to install better lighting but it takes $$$. I am just wondering if the RTR engines have decent lighting. Thanks :)
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    Great Model Railroads 2005

    Just to let all of the large scale modelers know there is a great artical on 3 & 3/4 scale live steam layout (if you want to call it a layout) in this years Great Model Railroads 2005. This went on sale last week. I didn't know what was all in live steam until I saw that artical. Have...
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    New Kato AC4400CW Comments

    Wow, nice Bill. I would get me one of those but funds are short so I am going to rely on Kato SD90MACs for my coal trains for now. It looks great, but you might want to put some black wash on the vents on the back, that will make it look new but realistic. Thanks for the photos.



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