Ann Arbor GP35 For Sale

[SD80MAC]

Anyone still want it? HO scale Athearn RTR GP35, Ann Arbor #393. Asking $65 but I'm willing to negotiate I suppose. If you're going to be at the Lansing show Sunday, I'd gladly deliver it to you there.

[TrainNut90]

you can make as $40.99 im not as ann arbor fan

[TrainNut85]

hey Jon, is that one DCC equipped or DCC Ready? Either way you could probably ask more than that since it looks like its in good condition.

[SD80MAC]

It wasn't much more than that new. DCC ready.

[Big Frank]

Thats a Sweet loco makes me wish i was in HO instead of O gauge lol ok ok maybe not lol but very nice looking piece

[TrainNut90]

DCC Locomotive cost too much

[CAT345C]

I've got one, I hate the thing, its as noisy as a box kit locomotive from Athearn.

[SD80MAC]

I've got one, I hate the thing, its as noisy as a box kit locomotive from Athearn.

Interesting, mine's fairly quiet, as smoot as the other Athearn RTR's I own. I guess I've been lucky, all my Athearn's are pretty quiet.

[Garry K]

I own five of those Athearn GP35s. They do growl a little, but I figure then I don't need to install sound--they already sound like a diesel!

If it makes too much noise, though, it could be because of too little lubrication of the gears, or there could be burrs on some gears. One should disassemble everything, clean, inspect, reassemble, and relube to see if the condition is quieted.

Garry K

[TrainNut90]

you can make $5.00 for that locomotive

[SD80MAC]

Found a buyer, so I guess this thread can go away.

[CAT345C]

For right now I'm just using my RS 2 and BL RSD15. I've got a hill with burn spots on it from that little RS2 pulling 32 cars . Pretty much the 35 is sidelined, i've gotta fix a dip in the track that causes the brake details on the trucks to bottom out.

[Garry K]

I've also found that the footboards on the front and rear pilots of those Athearn GP35s can rub on tracks if you have too severe of a dip in the track.

Garry K

[CAT345C]

Yeah, i have an ever growing promblem on a leg of my track, its uphill on a curve at a switch so I'm screwed either way. Slow order of 10mph, then a train of 10 or more cars stalls, thus creating burn spots. So i gotta double my train in the next town. Actually thats not a promblem is prototypical really.

[Garry K]

Mike, how "free rolling" are your cars? Do you use "The Tool" from Micro-Mark to ream the journal bearings so the cars roll easily? I've found if your cars really are free rolling that you can pull more of them up a grade because then you're only fighting gravity and not also rolling resistance.

Of course, when the cars are extremely free rolling, you better make sure your track is very level on yard tracks or sidings (or even the main line if you have to leave cars on the main to switch a siding) else the cars will want to roll away!

Garry K

[CAT345C]

Ive got my cars all weighted down a lot to add to the clikty clak.I cut all my rail with the dremal to add "joints".

[Garry K]

Do you weight your cars to the NMRA standards? If you make them too heavy, then it does make it much harder to haul them up grades. Sharp curves add drag to a long train just like uphill grades, too.

Garry K