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Challenger 4-6-6-4 Steam Engine
Clinchfield
No.5113-04
Challenger 4-6-6-4 Steam Engine
Delaware & Hudson (not
pictured)
No.5113-03
Challenger 4-6-6-4 Steam Engine
Rio Grande
No.5113-05
Challenger 4-6-6-4 Steam Engine
Union Pacific (Freight Version)
No.5113-02
Challenger 4-6-6-4 Steam Engine
Union Pacific "Greyhound"
No.5112-03
No.17561
The 1981 AHM catalog refers to this version of the Challenger as a Union Pacific "Gray Hound"
and the model receives a new five-digit stock number.
Challenger 4-6-6-4 Steam Engine
Union Pacific w/smoke deflectors
No.5112-02
No.17561
AHM's 4-6-6-4 "Challenger" joins the product line
in the spring of 1977. A 1980 listing shows this
model at $349.98. This big steam engine like many in the AHM line was built in Italy by Rivarossi. A review
of the model may be found in the June '77 issue of Railroad Modeler magazine. The review is positive with the exception
of the comment, "The only unhappy note about the Challenger is the realization that the day of the inexpensive locomotives,
where it be brass or plastic, is over." The Challenger's original list price was $149.98 in 1977 at the time of this
new product review.
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