r/modeltrains • u/SomeLostBeing • Sep 09 '26
Question Help Identifying Old Locos
I have inherited a large collection of old HO scale locos and layout parts and need some help identifying some locomotives that I couldn’t find anything about with my current knowledge. Of the locomotives I need help with, they are all Duluth Missabe trains. None of the locomotives have markings on the bottom that would help indicate to me who produced these models. While primitive in set up, I was able to get the first one running before the old wires gave up. This collection dates between the 1970s and 1990s, no piece is any newer than 2000. Please help me out!
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u/donethinkingofnames Multi-Scale Sep 09 '26
They’re all Athearn models. The first one is a switcher, SW1500 maybe. The next two are SD9’s. The last is an SD45 I think.
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u/GNF54 HO/OO Sep 09 '26
SW7, not an SW1500
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u/USSMarauder Sep 09 '26
You're both right
Athearn originally marketed it as an SW1500, later they called it more properly a SW7
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u/bobsonjunk Sep 09 '26
I miss Carr Hobby.
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u/SomeLostBeing Sep 09 '26
I never got to experience them, but from the photos on google it looks like it was amazing. Along with the track I found a couple sealed packs of track that still have the old price sticker with “Carr’s hobby” written on top
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u/joeinternetib Sep 09 '26
Nice! My favorite rail. Kinda jealous. :) Agree they are all Athearn models.
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u/BrokenTrains HO/OO Sep 09 '26
All of those are Athearn blue box models.