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(erielack) EL trailers... a first look



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Folks,

Attached are some shots of the new Athearn 40' Fruehauf "Z-van" trailers.
These are beautifully-made models, as the photos will attest to, with great
lettering and paint. The wheels are moveable along a track, but
interestingly enough, there is an etched metal detail part that is ACC'ed to
the wheel group that's meant to represent the prototype bar that disengages
the wheels to be moved under the trailer. On the model, it doesn't move, so
if you want to move the wheels, you need to force the metal bar over the
ribbed underframe. Odd, but it works!

Anyway, any EL modeler of the late 60s/1970s needs several of these - they
fill a long-standing void in the HO scale market!

	- Paul


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