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Athearn Ready To Roll SD40 Locomotive 7546

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Model Information

HO
Athearn
Ready To Roll
Locomotive
Diesel
SD40
Athearn
ATH98708
Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)
7546
-
DCC
DCC Ready
Metal Wheels
Sound
4000-gallon fuel tank
All weather windows
All-New tooling
Blue headlight
Brass sunshades
Canadian-style air reservoirs
Canadian-style brakewheel location on nose
Chicken Wire grilles
CN-style snowplow
Correct handbrakes and truck sideframes
Detailed plastic fuel tank with correct capacity
Directional headlights
EMD-style snowplows
Ex-CN and GTW units
Extra ballast blocks
Fire Cracker Antenna
Flexicoil C trucks with clasp brakes
Flexicoil C trucks with high brake cylinders
Fully assembled and ready to operate
High short hood
Hood-mounted bell
Leslie RS-5T-RRO air horn - Blue
Leslie RSL-3L-R air horn - Blue
Leslie S-3L air horn - Blue
Long-taper extended-range dynamic brakes
Many new options available
Many railroad-specific details
Many separate injection molded, lost wax or photo-etched parts
Marked as "SD40-2" on the side sill per BNSF practice
McHenry(R) scale knuckle spring couplers
Minimum radius: 18"
Molded Celcon handrails and wire grab irons
Non-ribbed blower housing
NORFOLK AND WESTERN spelled out on hood
NW logo on hood
Open grille fans
Pan-top fans
Ratchet brake in short hood
Razor-sharp printing and painting
Rear-mounted brakewheel
Rear-mounted brakewheel and stand
Rearward-mounted air reservoirs
Recommended radius: 22"
Ribbed blower housing
See-through fans
Short-taper extended-range dynamic brakes
Sinclair & ETD Antenna
Sliding cab windows
Slotted battery box doors
Standard battery box doors
Standard-range dynamic brakes
T-vent-bucks
Vertical twin sealed beam headlight on rear
Whip Antenna
With or without dynamic brakes
Yellow headlight

Prototype Details

EMD
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Contemporary (2005 - Present)
Merger (1995 - 2005)
Deregulation (1980 - 1995)
Second Generation Diesel (1960 - 1980)
2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
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Availability

July 2014
March 2015
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$134.98

Model Information

HO
Athearn
Ready To Roll
Locomotive
Diesel
SD40
Athearn
ATH98708
Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)
7546
-
DCC
DCC Ready
Metal Wheels
Sound
4000-gallon fuel tank
All weather windows
All-New tooling
Blue headlight
Brass sunshades
Canadian-style air reservoirs
Canadian-style brakewheel location on nose
Chicken Wire grilles
CN-style snowplow
Correct handbrakes and truck sideframes
Detailed plastic fuel tank with correct capacity
Directional headlights
EMD-style snowplows
Ex-CN and GTW units
Extra ballast blocks
Fire Cracker Antenna
Flexicoil C trucks with clasp brakes
Flexicoil C trucks with high brake cylinders
Fully assembled and ready to operate
High short hood
Hood-mounted bell
Leslie RS-5T-RRO air horn - Blue
Leslie RSL-3L-R air horn - Blue
Leslie S-3L air horn - Blue
Long-taper extended-range dynamic brakes
Many new options available
Many railroad-specific details
Many separate injection molded, lost wax or photo-etched parts
Marked as "SD40-2" on the side sill per BNSF practice
McHenry(R) scale knuckle spring couplers
Minimum radius: 18"
Molded Celcon handrails and wire grab irons
Non-ribbed blower housing
NORFOLK AND WESTERN spelled out on hood
NW logo on hood
Open grille fans
Pan-top fans
Ratchet brake in short hood
Razor-sharp printing and painting
Rear-mounted brakewheel
Rear-mounted brakewheel and stand
Rearward-mounted air reservoirs
Recommended radius: 22"
Ribbed blower housing
See-through fans
Short-taper extended-range dynamic brakes
Sinclair & ETD Antenna
Sliding cab windows
Slotted battery box doors
Standard battery box doors
Standard-range dynamic brakes
T-vent-bucks
Vertical twin sealed beam headlight on rear
Whip Antenna
With or without dynamic brakes
Yellow headlight

Model Information

HO
Athearn
Ready To Roll
Locomotive
Diesel
SD40
Athearn
ATH98708
Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)
7546
-
DCC
DCC Ready
Metal Wheels
Sound
4000-gallon fuel tank
All weather windows
All-New tooling
Blue headlight
Brass sunshades
Canadian-style air reservoirs
Canadian-style brakewheel location on nose
Chicken Wire grilles
CN-style snowplow
Correct handbrakes and truck sideframes
Detailed plastic fuel tank with correct capacity
Directional headlights
EMD-style snowplows
Ex-CN and GTW units
Extra ballast blocks
Fire Cracker Antenna
Flexicoil C trucks with clasp brakes
Flexicoil C trucks with high brake cylinders
Fully assembled and ready to operate
High short hood
Hood-mounted bell
Leslie RS-5T-RRO air horn - Blue
Leslie RSL-3L-R air horn - Blue
Leslie S-3L air horn - Blue
Long-taper extended-range dynamic brakes
Many new options available
Many railroad-specific details
Many separate injection molded, lost wax or photo-etched parts
Marked as "SD40-2" on the side sill per BNSF practice
McHenry(R) scale knuckle spring couplers
Minimum radius: 18"
Molded Celcon handrails and wire grab irons
Non-ribbed blower housing
NORFOLK AND WESTERN spelled out on hood
NW logo on hood
Open grille fans
Pan-top fans
Ratchet brake in short hood
Razor-sharp printing and painting
Rear-mounted brakewheel
Rear-mounted brakewheel and stand
Rearward-mounted air reservoirs
Recommended radius: 22"
Ribbed blower housing
See-through fans
Short-taper extended-range dynamic brakes
Sinclair & ETD Antenna
Sliding cab windows
Slotted battery box doors
Standard battery box doors
Standard-range dynamic brakes
T-vent-bucks
Vertical twin sealed beam headlight on rear
Whip Antenna
With or without dynamic brakes
Yellow headlight

ATH98708 #7546 (cid:127) "Chicken Wire" grilles #7546

Initial Source: 03_RTR_SD40_0071814.pdf