All new tooling
All-wheel drive and electrical pick-up
5-pole skewed armature motor
Machined brass flywheels
Available as DCC WITH SOUND
Cab interior
Available DCC-ready without sound
Celcon handrails
With or without dynamic brakes*
Photo-etched non-skid endwalks
Snowplow or streamlined pilots*
Detailed multi-piece plastic fuel tanks
High or low-mounted headlights*
Lost-wax brass horn
Rectangular or oval cab door windows*
Flush-mounted individual window "glass"
NEW McHenry knuckle-spring couplers
* Details specific to railroad and era |

click
on video to watch & hear the Athearn F45 Sounds
Video
clip is a small mpeg file showing the default start up sounds
under DCC. The throttle is increased slowly to full and then
back to zero. All sounds up to this point are automatically
generated by the decoder. Then we turn on the bell, hit the
long and short horn a couple of times before ending. This
was recorded at about one foot from the engine with all of
the sound options turned to maximum..
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