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Your favorite HO scale model railroad manufacturer

Harry

By Harry,
in Transit Modeling & Simulators

What is your favorite HO scale model railroad manufacturer?  

  1. 1. What is your favorite HO scale model railroad manufacturer?

    • Athearn/Athearn Genesis
      2
    • Atlas
      3
    • Bachmann
      6
    • Broadway Limited
      1
    • Kato
      0
    • Intermountain Railway
      0
    • Life-Like
      0
    • Lionel
      6
    • Model Power
      0
    • Walthers
      6

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Harry

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What is your favorite HO scale model railroad manufacturer?

 

Mine would be Athearn/Athearn Genesis. Everything I have is Athearn and then Atlas. All my locomotives and some of my 50' boxcars are Athearn Genesis. All of my containers are from Intermountain Railway Company.

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Ken S.

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I've found that Walthers passenger cars are worth the price. They even spend the R&D to make the Amtrak Heritage Cars with the proper ends and underbodys. Now if only Walthers would make a P1K R44/46 or Arrow III I'd be happy. When you say Life-Like are you referring to that junk that used to be sold in Toys "R" Us years ago? For those who don't know Walthers bought Life-Like a couple of years ago.

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Harry

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I've found that Walthers passenger cars are worth the price. They even spend the R&D to make the Amtrak Heritage Cars with the proper ends and underbodys. Now if only Walthers would make a P1K R44/46 or Arrow III I'd be happy. When you say Life-Like are you referring to that junk that used to be sold in Toys "R" Us years ago? For those who don't know Walthers bought Life-Like a couple of years ago.

 

Walther's is good for their passenger cars. I've seen their (NJT) cars and they look great.

 

And yes, I mean Life-Like that junk that Toys "R" Us used to sell, the same Life-Like that Walthers acquired. The same junk I used to play with when I was a kid. But not anymore.

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I voted Atlas only because my NJT ALP-44 is flawless with working pants. But my NJT Walters Comets are good lookin too. OH and of course my Spectrum F40PH.

 

Working pants? :):rolleyes::cool:

 

- A

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Far Rock Depot

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I liked Walthers, ATlas and Bachmann cause of their modern commuter and Amtrak models. The one i found months ago that i would go broke buying from is a company called Island Model Works. If its MTA or NJT, You can order it there!

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Earle Baldwin

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I like the Ready to Roll series by Athearn. I'm a fan of Norfolk & Western, Southern Railway and early Norfolk Southern which were characterized by high nose locomotives and Athearn has offered a number of these units in its RTR line. Thus far, I have all three NS ex-SOU GP40X's and two N&W SD45's including the Bicentennial 1776.

 

Regards,

 

Earle

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