NEW! Athearn Genesis 2.0 Dash 9-40C - With Tsunami 2 SOUND!

An in depth review of the NEW Athearn Genesis 2.0 Dash 9's with Soundtraxx Tsunami 2 DCC! Specifically the Norfolk Southern 9-40C

Thanks goes out to Athearn for providing this model for review!

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[spartacussimulations]

Dang I want this, my favorite Dash 9-40c, besides the Dash8-40c. Great review!

[jhicks]

Great review! This will be my 1st purchase of 2022. Thanks for your time.

[gopalan]

Great review. Interesting to see features like rotating bearing caps, ground light, walkway light etc. in Athearn locomotives. Actually, kudos to ScaleTrains for waking up other manufacturers who were in deep slumber for decades.

[bradleyogden]

Well done DG! You know what your talking about and you use the correct terminology. You're one of the best!

[railscanner]

Your best video to date. Looks very professional. You can walk away from this video knowing what your buying. You have done the modeling community a great service. Thank you.

[phillipsakalik]

You’ve gotta be the first to put up a vid on these! Well done! I’m already heavily invested in Scale Trains Dash 9s, but if Athearn makes one I have to have, I’ll be picking it up! Also the sound is better than I thought it might be!

[paulkirkmanMYTRAINS]

Excellent review. Really like some the improvements. The linking system to body is awesome !!!!

[ck]

Mine came today and I'm really impressed. Soundtraxx sounds seem much improved to me. I thought the ground lights were a bit dim so I increased the brightness and they look much better.

[daniellucas]

I like the fact that now you can see through the rear grill detail work some! I would like to see a comparison between this and SXT's version of their Dash 9s.

[richardcolemanjr]

It was a long time coming but ST and Athearn got a hit. Will NS get the SD70ace T4 like UP and CSX? A model would be nice.

[bhproductions]

Awesome 👏 I am new to the hobby and I want to model the B&P which I catch but no one has made any engines in the paint

[coquitlam_railfan]

Those “pogo” connectors can also be found on various bowser products and all of scale trains products including the operator series. Great video.

[Railroader_]

Those lighting pins are also found in the Genesis 2.0 SD60M Triclops. Just make sure no wires interfere with them and that they have good connection

[CentralJerseyRailfan]

Real glad to see one of the very first videos of this highly anticipated Athearn release. The big question is how does Athearn's version directly compared to the already established ScaleTrains rendition that has been out for 2 years already, which I am most eager to know about

[ReadingAreaRailfan]

And that really sounds like a D9, I scaletrains is ok, but I will always be loyal to athearn over everyone, I would take tsunami or TCS anyway over ESU

[scottwalters]

Another great review. I was just looking my UP units over when I got the notification of a new video. I have to agree with your assessment. Would like to see what what speed you obtain if you put the loco in yard swtcher mode function 14. Great motor control out of the box.

[SRF]

Great review and awesome locomotive . I would change it to a loksound 4.0, though. That tsunami sound doesn't have the chug sound of a GE 7FDL16. It sounds like a emd sound in a GE loco.

[BNSFREVIVAL]

Big dawg Athearn taking the fight to the new companies! I covet ALL of the Genesis models I have. Kick ass review guy!

[Panzermeister]

Thank you for the review! That lighting plug system you showed at the end is very cool. I also hope they keep that in future releases.

[rondemeyer]

Yes I can see that model is extremely good.. I have thr BC Rail version of the same model . I did however manage to screw up a few parts ad I found out that the exploded parts catalogue that they provided with ehw model is very great, but try and order the parts form it and you'll have a humungous disapointment in finding out that there is no support for this, makes me think twice if I will buy another athearn product again. Very pissed off about this, Sooo good luck