Athearn HO EMD Model 40
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: $134.98
Manufacturer: Athearn Trains, 2904 Research Rd., Champaign, IL 61822; 800-338-4639; athearn.com
Athearn HO EMD Model 40 features:
- All-wheel drive and electrical pickup
- Bi-directional, constant light-emitting-diode lighting
- Celcon handrails and stanchions
- Detailed injection-molded plastic body
- Direct-current model with Digital Command Control Quick Plug
- Factory-installed bell, exhaust stacks, and horn
- Heavy, die-cast metal frame
- McHenry scale couplers
- Minimum radius, 15”
- Operates on codes, 55, 70, 75, 80, 83, and 100 rail
- See-through cab windows
Release date: Available now
Road names: United States Army (olive green and black, two road numbers), Borg Warner Calumet Steel (yellow and black), Electro-Motive Division (black and silver), Professional Locomotive Service (red), and Shop Goat (yellow). Also painted weathered red and yellow and blue and gray but unlettered. One number per scheme unless noted.
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On December 5, 1940 at 10:55 AM near milepost 26.8 north of Lincoln, the 1134 Model 40 diesel hit a broken rail and derailed. Five loaded freight cars also derailed, with two turning over, one being a stock car carrying five unhappy hogs. Four men riding in the cab of the diesel were injured, they included, the Superintendent of the Eastern division of the Missouri Pacific, MR. C. F. Doughtery, the engineer, Mr. Charles F. Whitley, Mr. Teeters, the Road Foreman of Engines, and Mr. R. E. Terrell, the representative of the Electromotive Company of La Grange, Il, .The injured were transported to the Bothwell Hospital in Sedalia where all soon recovered. The rear end passenger car stayed on the rails and two passengers, Mrs. W. F. Cawood and Mr. John Palmer, both who had boarded at Lincoln, were not injured. Three others in the coach were William Sullivan, Conductor, and the two brakemen, C. W. Turner of Lexington and A. A. Rosehan of Sedalia. The EMD representative, Mr. R. E. Terrell, would later rise to become the President of the Electro Motive Division of General Motors.
That was the last time any diesel tried on the Missouri Pacific Warsaw Branch which was abandoned on August 41, 1946. The 1134 survived and can be seen at the Stellarton Industrial Museum in Stellarton Nova Scotia.
From an article By Ken Bird in the Summer 2018 Edition of the MoPac Historical Society Magazine The Eagle.