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Athearn Ready To Roll AWP Bay Window Freight Car 427

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Model Information

HO
Athearn
Ready To Roll
Freight Car
Caboose
Bay Window
Athearn
ATH-2257
Atlanta & West Point (AWP)
427
AWP
Knuckle Couplers
Metal Wheels
Smoke Unit
Barber-Bettendorf Swing Motion caboose truck
Clear windows
Fine end handrails and ladders
Fully-assembled and ready to run
Highly-detailed, injection-molded body
Minimum radius: 18"
Painted and printed for realistic decoration
Weighted for trouble free operation

Prototype Details

ALCO
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Merger (1995 - 2005)
Second Generation Diesel (1960 - 1980)
2000s
1970s
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Availability

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December 2025
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Model Information

HO
Athearn
Ready To Roll
Freight Car
Caboose
Bay Window
Athearn
ATH-2257
Atlanta & West Point (AWP)
427
AWP
Knuckle Couplers
Metal Wheels
Smoke Unit
Barber-Bettendorf Swing Motion caboose truck
Clear windows
Fine end handrails and ladders
Fully-assembled and ready to run
Highly-detailed, injection-molded body
Minimum radius: 18"
Painted and printed for realistic decoration
Weighted for trouble free operation

Model Information

HO
Athearn
Ready To Roll
Freight Car
Caboose
Bay Window
Athearn
ATH-2257
Atlanta & West Point (AWP)
427
AWP
Knuckle Couplers
Metal Wheels
Smoke Unit
Barber-Bettendorf Swing Motion caboose truck
Clear windows
Fine end handrails and ladders
Fully-assembled and ready to run
Highly-detailed, injection-molded body
Minimum radius: 18"
Painted and printed for realistic decoration
Weighted for trouble free operation

PROTOTYPE SPECIFIC INFORMATION * Barber-Bettendorf Swing Motion caboose truck per prototype A caboose is a railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses * Fine end handrails and ladders provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were formerly required in * Clear windows switching and shunting, keeping a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment * Separately applied smoke jack and brake wheel and cargo, and overheating axles. * Fully-assembled and ready to run * Machined metal wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular In a bay window caboose, the crew sits in the middle of the car in a section brands of track of wall that projects from the side of the caboose. The windows set into these * Body mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers extended walls resemble architectural bay windows, hence the name. A bay * Weighted for trouble free operation window caboose afforded a better view of the side of the train and eliminated * Highly-detailed, injection-molded body falling hazards. * Painted and printed for realistic decoration * Minimum radius: 18" $36.99 INDIVIDUAL CLICK fastserve.horizonhobby.com Orders Due: 08.30.24 Athearn.com CALL ETA: DECEMBER 2025 1.800.535.5551 * Union Pacific Licensed Product

Initial Source: 05_ATHHO_Bay_Window_Caboose_072624.pdf