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Post by marknycfan on Jul 3, 2015 6:20:56 GMT -8
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Post by atsfan on Jul 3, 2015 8:54:26 GMT -8
They cancelled an O scale engine run due to lack of orders
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routerock
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Post by routerock on Jul 3, 2015 13:56:35 GMT -8
Still waiting for my Atlas GP40 in Rock Island.
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Post by rockfan on Jul 4, 2015 11:58:21 GMT -8
Walthers website says September 30
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Post by Judge Doom on Jul 4, 2015 18:58:12 GMT -8
Atlas? They still make trains?  |
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routerock
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Post by routerock on Jul 5, 2015 4:59:27 GMT -8
 yea but of what year?
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Post by drolsen on Jul 6, 2015 0:31:19 GMT -8
One thing that's concerned me about Atlas (as an indicator that they may be struggling) is that they stopped updating the Past Products section of their website sometime around 2011. Since then, all their product listings have just stayed in the New Products section, and they don't bother to move them over anymore. May be minor in the grand scheme of things, but that seems like a relatively easy thing to update. I just find it a little more difficult to locate things in the long New Products listing.
Dave
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Post by middledivision on Jul 6, 2015 6:33:22 GMT -8
Atlas? They still make trains? Yes. Just not as many as they used to.  |
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Post by scl1234 on Jul 6, 2015 8:19:02 GMT -8
... waiting for the Atlas GP40's ... This is a really odd one. Original delivery (whatever that means these days) was slated for end of Q4 2014. Fast forward to early Q3 2015 and the Atlas site still shows a few (WTH happened to all those Milwaukee units, they'd surely sell, No?) units in pre-order status. As for contacting Atlas to get any details on whether these units will appear, you'd save time by posing your questions to a sheet of drywall. (SMH) It's probably something simple like a batch of weak motors(?) that killed the run (six months late = dead run in my book). At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if Atlas just wiped this GP40 run from their site so it appears that whatever delayed the production run never really occurred. Lots of other Atlas Classic/Master engine releases since the end of Q4 though. |
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Post by dti406 on Jul 6, 2015 10:27:16 GMT -8
Atlas? They still make trains? Yes. Just not as many as they used to. At least what ever shows up at least has some undecorated kits in the shipment unlike the other two big importers, so Atlas gets my dollars. Rick J |
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Post by atsfan on Jul 6, 2015 18:23:46 GMT -8
Atlas? They still make trains? Atlas strictly issues repaints and re releases in HO. |
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Post by edwardsutorik on Jul 6, 2015 20:09:36 GMT -8
Atlas strictly issues repaints and re releases in HO. Gosh almighty. HOW MANY TIMES do I have to point out that Atlas re-did their Alco S-2? And that it is a really good model. They are not repaints. They are not "re releases". They are new models. They are probably the best HO switcher you can get. Oh, yeah. And then there's their all-new boxcars. That would be the 5077's and the NSC's. Really nice NEW cars. I do not understand why you feel compelled to spout nonsense when, if you had been paying attention, you would know that it was just that. Nonsense. Ed |
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Post by atsfan on Jul 7, 2015 3:15:13 GMT -8
Atlas strictly issues repaints and re releases in HO. Gosh almighty. HOW MANY TIMES do I have to point out that Atlas re-did their Alco S-2? And that it is a really good model. They are not repaints. They are not "re releases". They are new models. They are probably the best HO switcher you can get. Oh, yeah. And then there's their all-new boxcars. That would be the 5077's and the NSC's. Really nice NEW cars. I do not understand why you feel compelled to spout nonsense when, if you had been paying attention, you would know that it was just that. Nonsense. Ed No nonsense . Facts Why you spout nonsense otherwise is up to you. The S2 is not a new engine. The boxcars were new. TODAY they are not. Spouting old releases as evidence new products are coming is, nonsense. |
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Post by rockfan on Jul 7, 2015 3:48:46 GMT -8
They may be putting new paint jobs on existing products but I am waiting for the GP40 in Rock Island blue and white paint.
Hopefully they will do the red and yellow speed lettering on a future run.
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Post by riogrande on Jul 7, 2015 3:51:38 GMT -8
Sure, Atlas is not what it once was and has a way to go to be restored near what it was at it peak, but it seems I sense folks kicking at a company as they are trying to crawl slowly back up (kicking even with a little glee?) We do not know what struggles they are undergoing but I personally wish them well and hope they can continue to improve and work their way back to a semblence of their former glory. It may very well be a slow process to raise capitol and new projects etc. after a number of set backs of recent years after all.
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Post by notabob on Jul 7, 2015 3:57:40 GMT -8
At least one good thing should come out of their GP40-2 delays - I recall hearing within the last year that they are switching from QSI to LokSound on these. Hopefully Q3 3015 will be the last delay and the switch to LokSound rumor proves true. Been waiting for my CN -2W for too long.
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Post by stevewagner on Jul 7, 2015 4:41:27 GMT -8
I agree that Atlas should update the posted production schedule on their website, and, even more, their container shipping report, much more frequently.
On the other hand, Atlas sometimes doesn't give themselves proper credit for new products. The postwar 40' boxcars with a single 8' door on each side, which have reached at least some dealers, are listed in the posted announcements as "New Paint Schemes". I'm almost certain that these are the first of this particular type that Atlas has provided, if you don't count some leftover Branchline Blueprint kits and possibly assembled models they sold a few years ago. I have one Bangor & Aroostook and one Lackawanna car on order; Klein's has already sold out of the first batch of those two paint jobs they received.
The Trainman "Evans" gondola is, I think, a reasonable stand-in for Erie Lackawanna gons built in the early 1970's, and I plan to get one of those to replace an old Athearn 50' mill gon.
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Post by bnsf971 on Jul 7, 2015 4:53:07 GMT -8
I stumbled on this entirely by accident. I don't know if anybody else noticed, but I would think they might sell more if they let people know.
It seems Atlas is installing Loksound in some of their Trainman locomotives. The price seems reasonable, and is following Walthers and Athearn in equipping lower-end units with DCC and sound.
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Post by Spikre on Jul 7, 2015 14:55:56 GMT -8
 the New Atlas S-2 has nothing in common with the old Roco based S-1/2/3/4 of years past,or those of later years made in China but still mainly using copies of the Roco parts. or from ex-Roco tooling. the RS-3 has been retooled,cant complain about the Exhaust stacks now,no matter which direction they face. Atlas is still a viable Company. Spikre 
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Post by atsfan on Jul 7, 2015 17:31:11 GMT -8
the New Atlas S-2 has nothing in common with the old Roco based S-1/2/3/4 of years past,or those of later years made in China but still mainly using copies of the Roco parts. the RS-3 has been retooled,cant complain about the Exhaust stacks now,no matter which direction they face. Atlas is still a viable Company. Spikre I, for one, did not say or imply Atlas was not viable. It will be a long wait by the mailbox however for your new products from Atlas to arrive. |
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Post by Spikre on Jul 8, 2015 7:43:09 GMT -8
 atsfan, Maywood Station says that their Special run Atlas NYS&W S-2 #-206 is available now. looking at the pictures on the web site the model deffinately isn't a Roco based model. check out---www.maywoodstation.com or something similar to that. there may also be a link at Atlas.com. Spikre
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Post by marknycfan on Jul 10, 2015 16:15:28 GMT -8
If anyone thinks the current Atlas HO Scale S-2/4 or RS-1 units are the same as they were in the 1980's they have obviously not seen them up close in person.
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Post by Spikre on Jul 10, 2015 18:23:38 GMT -8
?? has any one tried to fit the new long hood railings on to the Roco based S units ? complained for years to Atlas to up-grade those horrid looking stantions. think they just imagined them,or got that wrongness from an Alco that was modified and used in Europe. Spikre |
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yea but of what year?
