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Athearn announces RDG HTw hoppers in HO 10 years 4 months ago #2452

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Mitch there was no harm in your comments; they were very informative and helpful. Actually, I had my suspicions that the Athearn cars were not correct (hence my request for comments). At nearly $28 per car retail price, I would like to see more than just reworked 20 plus year old tooling that really isn’t accurate to the prototype. Maybe some will find these cars “ok” as fleet builders on larger layouts, which is fine. However, I starting to get finicky about the details and what models I buy.

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Athearn announces RDG HTw hoppers in HO 10 years 4 months ago #2453

Rob OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 393 Thank you received: 57	LOL - maybe they were good fleet builders when they were 3.25 per car, not building fleet too fast at 28 per car......
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Athearn announces RDG HTw hoppers in HO 10 years 4 months ago #2455

MrBill OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 169 Thank you received: 31	Relagated to fleet. Too bad for athearn. Rob great pic!
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Athearn announces RDG HTw hoppers in HO 10 years 2 months ago #2738

JoannaBill OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 422 Thank you received: 63	Posting this here to keep the discussion going. This was taken in Tamaqua in March, 1976. Note the Ore Service notation in the upper left.
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Athearn announces RDG HTw hoppers in HO 10 years 2 months ago #2753

rdg1187prr OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 197 Thank you received: 38	Thank you Bill for posting the HTw with the Ore Service Stencil. I originally thought that all of those HTw cars were painted with the orange panel. Here's proof otherwise! BTW what is the car number? John Caples
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