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An Excellent, Like New, Old Stock, Athearn HO scale Santa Fe (ATSF – Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway) FP-45 DC Powered Diesel Engine Locomotive is under consignment and up for sale at ShowMyHobby. This very heavy locomotive has been test-run by me for about an hour. It operates successfully running solo on 18″ radius curves. (It is UNTESTED with couplers installed so once those are installed your results on 18″ radius curves may differ.)
This Athearn Blue Box Santa Fe FP45 Diesel Locomotive features sturdy plastic shell, heavy metal frame, 12 Metal Medium Flange Wheels (mMFW) on plastic trucks, Hornhook couplers, and crisp Black lettering on a good paint job. There is an included Athearn Accessories Envelop that contains 2 coupler pocket covers, 2 Hornhook couplers, horn, 4 circular clear plastic window inserts, front and rear headlight clear plastic inserts, and all metal handrails that can be applied by the user (as indicated in the last photo).
This Electro-Motive Division (EMD) Santa Fe FP45 Diesel Locomotive was originally designed to pull a string of passenger cars. It wears the Santa Fe Warbonnet Red, Silver, and Yellow/Gold paint scheme that was created for the Super Chief passenger train in 1937. The ATSF operated 9 EMD FP45 locomotives (road numbers 100-108) primarily to head the Super Chief and El Capitan passenger trains from 1967 to April 1971. Following the inception of Amtrak, these locomotives were reassigned to freight service, though some saw occasional passenger usage, with the fleet largely retired or sold by the BNSF merger in 1995-1998. This particular unit was originally delivered as locomotive #100, but it was renumbered around 1971 as road number #5940 when it was used for freight service. It would be rebuilt and renumbered again between 1980 and 1982 to become road number 5990.
This video was recorded on 12-13-2022. Note: Since I made the video, I opened the accessories pack and took a photo of its contents.
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