Bicentennial

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The Athearn Bicentennial is beautiful, but rides on  type I Flexicoils which is wrong and are shallow
and lack depth. The 1776 and the 13 dip black units should ride on  type II triple trucks. no manufacture makes 
a  type II triple truck that I know of.

Stephen Rineair

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From: NW Modeling List 
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Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:14 PM
Subject: RE: Bicentennial


It looks to me like they did redo this one.  I have one of the old ones I was going to kitbash but the new one appears to have a Rail Power Products shell, but it looks like they made some improvements to that too.  I picked up the new 1776. It runs great and even has the right truck frames. I think they did a nice job on this one.  
 
Phil Miller 
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  Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:23 AM 
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  Subject: Re: Bicentennial


  Did Athearn ever rescale the width of the hoods on their SD45's? Is that what they mean by upgraded tooling?  I always thought they looked a little out of scale and too wide, with narrow walkways. 
  Ben Blevins



  NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote: 
  Well, I see we don't have to kitbash the 1776 anymore. Athearn has done it for us. Two listings on ebay - one bidding and one buy-it-now.    Jim Nichols 
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