General Electric U50 diesel locomotive
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: Direct-current model with 21-pin NEM connector, $369.99; with dual-mode SoundTraxx Tsunami2 sound decoder, $469.99
Era: late 1960s to 1970s+ (varies depending on paint scheme)
Manufacturer: Athearn Trains, 2904 Research Rd., Champaign, IL 61822, 800-338-4639, athearn.com
Features:
- Illuminated truck lights, number boxes, and classification lights
- All-wheel drive and electrical pickup
- Detailed fuel tank with fillers, gauges, breather pipes, and retention tanks
- Four cube speakers
- Full cab interior
- Die-cast metal frame
- See-through air intakes
- Wire grab irons
- McHenry scale couplers
- Minimum radius, 18”; recommended radius, 22”
- Available July 2023
Road names: Union Pacific (Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray, with “We Can Handle It” slogan in one road number and “Dependable Transportation” slogan in two numbers); Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (fictional pinstripe scheme in two numbers); General Electric (fictional red-and-white demonstrator scheme in one number); and Southern Pacific (scarlet and gray 9500-series units in three numbers).
Company information: Athearn Trains offers model railroad equipment in N and HO scales. The company is part of Horizon Hobby and is based in Champaign, Ill.
Reproduced from Athearn May 2022 news release
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