To all newbies!

Michael P Gabriel · 2004-06-15T14:57:56+00:00

Hi, I guess one can't expect wonders when paying only 6-8 dollars for a freight car, but what a piece of garbage I got with Athearn's bargain freight cars! I would heartily recommend not purchasing bargain freight cars, but go for the higher quality, regardless of the brand. I bought (6) such freight cars and upon arrival I learned that they were kits!!! And what a hassle putting them together. Laying the coupler on the pin and then trying to clip the lid onto the coupler box was one thing, but getting that lid to stay clipped...well, that's a whole 'nother story. Just don't plan on spending less than $15 for a good qualtiy freight car, where you'll probably get decent couplers and maybe you won't have to spend any time struggling to put them together. I bought (6) of these and now I'm sorry!. I may have to glue the coupler lid onto the coupler box on a few of them because of the bad alignment! And maybe, I just may throw good money after bad and buy decent trucks and couplers. Or maybe I may just leave them on the side as scenery...in shops, abandonesd, etc. Mike Picture Rocks, AZ

To all newbies!

Jun 15, 2004 42 Replies

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jhbright 22 years ago

Not going to happen! Too many want the government in your pants. Note--I said yours and not theirs.

J. Bright

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Dan Merkel 22 years ago

I don't know... I'd guess that about 75% of the guys I was in school with between say 4th & 8th grade built some plastic model kits. Maybe they weren't pounding them out once a week like I did in my prime : ) but I can remember that at school gift exchanges, it looked like a model shop when the boys got together to check things out!

Of course, that was about 40 years ago too... perhaps a couple of generations ago!

dlm

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Greg Pavlov 22 years ago

This is what happens when people hide out in `burbs where everyone is just like everyone else so they assume everyone is like everyone else. In my neighborhood some people fix their own cars, most work for a living, mow their own lawns, cut their own hedges, and, if they have kids, usually expect them to help out.

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