Globe F units with 8 wheels drive 1954/5 pulling AMT passenger cars 1952-4 ... please see link for video .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxxSdLpi5rA
Cheers Carey 
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"HONGZ" stands for HO scale, N scale, G scale, and Z scale.
Post your non-O scale stuff here!
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Thanks for posting. It brought back memories.
Leon
Nice!
Are the Globe F's in factory paint, or were they custom painted somewhere in their lives?
Andre
Good stuff!
Globe: The line that launched thousands of F7's.
Back in the 70's, I picked up A-B-B-A set of undecorated non-powered Globe F7 kits (well, gold painted anyway.) Painted them up Santa Fe, added the Walthers Diesel Dress Up kit and plopped them on Athearn drives.
Rusty
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Hello all ..thank you for your kind words ....the Globe F units are factory paint ... Globe offered UP , SantaFe and unpainted gold ...... interesting thing I found was at the end of 1954 the powered Globe F was 14.95 ....by 1958 Atheran was selling a whole set ...F unit , 2 passenger cars , loop of track , transformer for the same price ....that's why they had to go to rubber bands to remain competitive ...
Cheers Carey
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Athearn acquired Globe in 1952 and retained the brand name until 1956.
Athearn introduced their Hi-F (rubberband) drive F7 in 1957 along with the GP9 and Hustler.
Source: Athearn website.
Rusty
I remember Globe, and think l had something with the (disliked here) rubberband drive...have had O scale AMT cars, but not before seen HO ones, to my knowledge, so interesting post.
Two Globe units that I have:
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Very cool, thanks for posting. Had a set when I was a kid.
Dave
