Item Tag: Painted, POWERED

Athearn HO Custom Painted F7s in the yellow and black scheme. F7A #5009 Powered and tested. F7A 5018 Dummy. NEW OTHER. Engine number 5009 has no wired headlight, Kadee couplers, with regular and mars light headlight lens (photos 3-5). Engine number 5018 is a dummy unit, with no wired headlight, Kadee couplers with a regular headlight lens (photos 14-16). Boxes have custom labels and have shelf wear and paint overspray (photos 9-11 and 20-22; additional box photos available via message request). Expand all photos to fully evaluate listing. Kept in an Environmentally Controlled and Smoke-Free Environment. Fully Insured at no Additional Cost. Expertly packaged to protect contents. Shipped with UPS Ground. I will combine shipping on all orders, so please take a look at my other listings! History of the EMD F7 The All-American F7 defined railroading during the 1950s; nearly every notable Class 1 operated at least one and many rostered dozens, or even hundreds, of these locomotives. When one pictures Electro-Motive’s classic streamlined diesels, the F7 most often comes to mind. The model debuted directly after the F3; the first examples began rolling out of EMD’s factory in McCook, Illinois during February, 1949. With its predecessor’s success, and EMD’s reputation firmly established, sales of the F7 took off rapidly. During its nearly five-year production run, 3,856 units were produced. This figure not only made it the most successful diesel ever built up until that time but the F7 also singlehandedly sold more examples than all other manufacturers’ designs, combined. It proved so reliable and useful that hundreds remained in regular freight service through the 1970s, and in some cases even into the 1980s and 1990s, on short lines and in industrial settings. Today, numerous F7’s are preserved with several examples still operational at museums and tourist railroads.