PRE-ORDER – Athearn 19080 – EMD FP45 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (ATSF) 90 – N Scale

Description

Description

Pre-Order Due Date:  6/30/2023

• There is a 5% non-refundable deposit for preorders, this amount will be deducted from the price of the product when it arrives.  
• For any pre-order submitted after the due date, we will try our best to fulfill your order, but are at the mercy of the manufacturer and if they produce more than were preordered by their dealers.
• Pre-Orders will show a 0 shipping cost now, and shipping will be included on your invoice at time of product arrival.
• Following your reservation, you will receive an email invoice with the details of your order just for reference.  When the products are available to ship, you will receive the same invoice again this time to make payment.

The year of 1989 saw the re-birth of Santa Fe’s iconic red and sliver “warbonnet” scheme originally introduced in the mid 1930’s. This modernized version with large lettering became the standard for all wide cab Santa Fe diesel locomotives purchased from 1990 until the BNSF “heritage” scheme introduced after the merger. Keeping the tradition of the great passenger trains back in the day, Santa Fe repainted all remaining ex-passenger service FP45’s into this scheme. They could be found on company specials and in regular freight service. A few are still around on display at different museums. A museum in California restored a Santa Fe FP45 back to operation in it’s original 1967 appearance.

• See-through cab windows
• Snow plow or plate welded pilot
• 5-pole skew wound motor, precision machined flywheels, and multi-link drivetrain

PROTOTYPE SPECIFIC INFORMATION

EMD released a new 645 engine in 1966. The most powerful locomotive using this series of engine was the SD45. The EMD SDP45 was a good passenger locomotive, but to the Santa Fe Railway it did not look the part. EMD therefore designed a lightweight “cowl” body to cover the locomotive, though it did not, as in earlier cab units, provide any structural strength, which remained in the frame. The cowl provided sleeker looks, better aerodynamics at speed, and allowed the crew to enter the engine compartment en route for diagnostics and maintenance. After sponsoring the development of the FP45 passenger locomotive, the Santa Fe requested a similar freight locomotive from Electro-Motive. Where the FP45 was an SDP45 wrapped in a full-width Cowl carbody, the new F45 was essentially an SD45 given the same treatment.