Athearn 28778 HO Scale ALCo RS-3 Rio Grande D&RGW 5203 with DCC and Sound Mini Slash 3" Crawler

3" Crawler

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)

These wheels have a 6mm offset

Athearn 28778 HO Scale ALCo RS-3 Rio Grande D&RGW 5203 with DCC and Sound Mini Slash 3" CrawlerAthearn 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