Athearn 28778 HO Scale ALCo RS-3 Rio Grande D&RGW 5203 with DCC and Sound Mini Slash This combination provides performance advantages

This combination provides performance advantages never before offered in a scale kit of its kind

The boat features a control room that can be lifted off for easy access to the cargo hold

000 cars produced (not including thousands of clones from other builders and railroads)

Use with Walthers Code 83 Bridge Track (948-886 or 948-899 both sold separately) plus flexible

they will be right at home on any late era BNSF roster

Athearn 28778 HO Scale ALCo RS-3 Rio Grande D&RGW 5203 with DCC and Sound Mini Slash This combination provides performance advantagesAthearn 28778 HO Scale ALCo RS 3 Rio Grande D&RGW 5203 with DCC and Sound ALCO built the RS 3 to respond to competition with EMD, Fairbanks Morse, and Baldwin Locomotive Works. In the case of ALCO, the builder added more improvements to create new locomotive lines beyond the RS 2. ALCO produced 377 RS 2s versus the more successful RS 3s at 1,418. The new model produced slightly more horsepower than the earlier design at 1,600 hp using Alcos 12