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TOPIC: A blast from the past!
A blast from the past! 9 years 4 months ago #3980
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I thought it would be cool to post older photo's of models done "Back in the day" as Butch mentioned in another post. Back in the days of wide bodied Athearn models, DCC was in it's infancy, Steve Stewart came upon the scene with "Made by modelers for modelers" RS3, Atlas re-entered the mix with it's own version of the RS3 and Athearn started making scale width bodies. I'm posting some older photo's of a couple models I built and sold off when I did custom painting. I hope a few other "old heads" post their pics too. It would be great to see those older models good or bad!
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A blast from the past! 9 years 4 months ago #3985
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A blast from the past! 9 years 4 months ago #3986
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OK - Here are some blue box Athearns I found, not roster shots. This GP-35 certainly shows the "wide" body look. The next photo shows an Athearn shorty RDC. Don't go by the window arrangement to decal these, and you had to love the rubber band, I mean belt drive when you brought it to a quick stop.
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A blast from the past! 9 years 4 months ago #3989
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Bill I'm shocked that you would post pictures of RS3's.
 Nice pics Rob! I did fail to mention Dale Woodland took those photo's for me in 1986 at the North Penn Club in Lansdale. In a couple years after those photo's, the club Lost it's home after new owners bought the building and was dismantled. |
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July, 1956
The connection between the Reading Belt Line and the Lebanon Valley Branch near Reading enters service.
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