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F-3 Diesel Locomotive
Army
No. 6111-6 -1975 Release
F-3 Diesel Locomotive
Burlington Northern
No. 6110-8 -1974 Release
F-3 Diesel Locomotive
Canadian National
No. 611161 -1975 Release
F-3 Diesel Locomotive
Chessie System
No. 6110-9 -1974 Release
F-3 Diesel Locomotive
CP Rail
No. 611163 -1975 Release
F-3 Diesel Locomotive
Ontario Northland
No. 611162 -1975 Release
F-3 Diesel Locomotive
Santa Fe
No. 6110-3 -1974 Release
A welcome addition
to the HO-scale model train world was COX's F-3A unit, first offered in 1974. Cox displayed a Chessie System F-3A at the
1974 Chicago Hobby Show. This model represented all-new tool-and-die work and was a fairly accurate example of EMD's F-3A
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 F-3A 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 F-7A
sold under the COX name. COX also sold Athearn's F-7B 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 F3-A models
shown on this page. The Canadian market also enjoyed the promotional Robin Hood Foods F3-A 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 F3-A in these listings.
Additionally, the stock numbering system for the American F3-A releases
was different in Canada. In Canada, the Burlington Northern F3-A was #611180; Chessie System F3-A was #611190; Santa
Fe F3-A was #611130; and the U.S. Army F3-A was #611160. All appear to be exactly the same otherwise, when compared
to their U.S. release examples.
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