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F3A Diesel Locomotive
Army
No. 6111-6 -1975 Release
F3A Diesel Locomotive
Burlington Northern
No. 6110-8 -1974 Release
F3A Diesel Locomotive
Canadian National
No. 611161 -1975 Release
F3A Diesel Locomotive
Chessie System
No. 6110-9 -1974 Release
F3A Diesel Locomotive
CP Rail
No. 611163 -1975 Release
F3A Diesel Locomotive
Ontario Northland
No. 611162 -1975 Release
F3A Diesel Locomotive
Santa Fe
No. 6110-3 -1974 Release
A welcome addition
to the HO-scale model train world was COX's F3A unit, first offered in 1974. Cox displayed a Chessie System F3A at the 1974
Chicago Hobby Show. This model represented all-new tool-and-die work and was a fairly accurate example of EMD's F3A diesel
locomotive operated by a variety of the nation's railroads.
During the life of this model under the COX name, it was available in the roadnames shown above. The model was sold as a powered
loco and no dummy version was produced by COX. The F3A was made in Hong Kong for COX.
Prior to 1974, COX's train line was produced for them by Athearn in California. That group of offerings had Athearn's F7A
sold under the COX name. COX also sold Athearn's F7B at that time. Both Athearn produced COX F-units were available in Santa
Fe(61 1010) and Penn Central(61 1020).
Distributed in the Canadian market, COX had a trio of F3A models shown
on this page. The Canadian market also enjoyed the promotional Robin Hood Foods F3A example. From what I have
found, the Robin Hood set's rolling stock made appearances in the Lesiure Dynamics catalogs in Canada, but I do not find the
Robin Hood F3A in these listings.
Additionally, the stock numbering system for the American F3A releases
was different in Canada. In Canada, the Burlington Northern F3A was #611180; Chessie System F3A was #611190; Santa Fe
F3A was #611130; and the U.S. Army F3A was #611160. All appear to be exactly the same otherwise, when compared to their
U.S. release examples.
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