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Post by jlwii2000 on Mar 28, 2018 16:40:51 GMT -8
Never seen before, the Atlas Secret Archives.
One over everything ever made!
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Post by riogrande on Mar 28, 2018 17:29:04 GMT -8
Cool
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Post by GP40P-2 on Mar 28, 2018 18:24:17 GMT -8
On your header photo, you need some red circles and arrows, and some comment like "You will never believe XXXXXX!!!" or "she never knew why the crowd was cheering and they just kept filming!" That should draw in the Youtube crowd....
Cool video!
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Post by craigz on Mar 29, 2018 4:31:20 GMT -8
"He walked into the back room of the factory and you won't believe what he found!"
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Post by scaledriver on Mar 29, 2018 5:23:41 GMT -8
The most used link bait is a picture of a bikini clad attractive lady, who doesn’t show up in the actual video.
I wish Atlas would go back to when it was filling this warehouse with new additions of HO scale new products at a more rapid pace.
As a side note, I see Atlas is now advertising it’s reissued GenSet with “Rolling Thunder” in large lettering.
This is not, upon further reading, the Broadway Ltd Rolling Thunder, but just a reference to the sound the engine now can be ordered with.
Interesting. Not to mention One of the actual GenSets selling points was how quietly it operated.......:-)
Thank you
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Post by riogrande on Mar 29, 2018 5:53:03 GMT -8
Yes, LOL. The modern age of advertisers trying to hook viewers into various "click bate". It's enough to make you miss the good old days when it was just billboards, TV and radio.
Now that James has his Model Train "press" badge, he gets all kinds of hobby celebrity treatment. Can we be groupies?
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Post by gevohogger on Mar 29, 2018 6:23:02 GMT -8
This collection includes, I assume, samples of Atlas' earlier "yellow box" era, and older? How about the old N-scale E8s and Fairbanks-Morse locomotives? Would have been more interesting than the recent stuff they showed us.
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Post by riogrande on Mar 29, 2018 6:29:32 GMT -8
Yeah, I'd assume the collection goes back to the 1960's or possibly earlier. I do remember during the 1970's, the only HO rolling stock was engines (yellow box), of which I used to own 6 or 7. I've sold all of them off years ago - last one about 3 or 4 years ago.
Does that collection include every paint job for a model or only a single example of each type of model?
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Post by The Ferro Kid on Mar 29, 2018 11:29:25 GMT -8
Yeah, I'd assume the collection goes back to the 1960's or possibly earlier. I do remember during the 1970's, the only HO rolling stock was engines (yellow box), of which I used to own 6 or 7. I've sold all of them off years ago - last one about 3 or 4 years ago. Does that collection include every paint job for a model or only a single example of each type of model? I wondered the same thing. Tough to tell being limited to camera-eye view. But then -- he was talking about checking colors, so you'd need each paint scheme to do that. Was also amused by the reference to the room being raided for the odd part for a customer. What good is it as a reference when there are parts missing? Fascinating report. I always wondered if something like this existed. |
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Post by jlwii2000 on Mar 29, 2018 16:14:05 GMT -8
On your header photo, you need some red circles and arrows, and some comment like "You will never believe XXXXXX!!!" or "she never knew why the crowd was cheering and they just kept filming!" That should draw in the Youtube crowd.... Cool video! I usually don't resort to trickery or titles, YouTube to me is just a hobby inside a hobby and I'm not big into getting wrapped around the axle with view counts and super catchy names or thumbnails. Just not my cup of tea. I'll do a very rare stretch of excitement once in awhile but that's about it. It's the same reason I haven't turned my channel into Thomas trains only getting voiced over and pulled around on wooden track. Missed views but also back stabs my subscribers. As for the one of everything that's ever been made claim, this is what Atlas themselves said both on and off the video so I figure it is true or pretty close to it. It was nice of them to permit access for the first time ever though, so I hope everyone enjoyed the look. |
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Post by lvrr325 on Mar 29, 2018 17:31:55 GMT -8
There was Atlas 1970s rolling stock. They were reboxed Athearn cars, sold in train sets with a Roco production engine. Cabooses were done in special paint, I think the others were standard production. I see one turn up now and then.
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Post by stevef45 on Mar 29, 2018 17:47:18 GMT -8
It looked more modern stuff to me than older stuff from when atlas first started.
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Post by riogrande on Mar 29, 2018 18:11:28 GMT -8
There was Atlas 1970s rolling stock. They were reboxed Athearn cars, sold in train sets with a Roco production engine. Cabooses were done in special paint, I think the others were standard production. I see one turn up now and then. I don't remember Atlas selling HO freight cars of their own tooling and manufacture until the 1990s. |
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Post by GP40P-2 on Mar 29, 2018 18:46:09 GMT -8
There was Atlas 1970s rolling stock. They were reboxed Athearn cars, sold in train sets with a Roco production engine. Cabooses were done in special paint, I think the others were standard production. I see one turn up now and then. I don't remember Atlas selling HO freight cars of their own tooling and manufacture until the 1990s. Wasn't the "Made in Brazil" Kaolin tank the first of their own (in HO)? |
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Post by fr8kar on Mar 29, 2018 18:54:05 GMT -8
As a side note, I see Atlas is now advertising it’s reissued GenSet with “Rolling Thunder” in large lettering. This is not, upon further reading, the Broadway Ltd Rolling Thunder, but just a reference to the sound the engine now can be ordered with. Interesting. Not to mention One of the actual GenSets selling points was how quietly it operated.......:-) Thank you No NRE genset sound file can be complete without the sound of an alarm bell ringing randomly. For extra realism, the decoder should report "GS2 UNEXPECTED SHUTDOWN LOAD LIMITED". |
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Post by grahamline on Mar 29, 2018 22:20:21 GMT -8
Any big piles of brass rail on fiber tie strip? That would be old Atlas.
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Post by bnsf971 on Mar 30, 2018 3:27:18 GMT -8
As a side note, I see Atlas is now advertising it’s reissued GenSet with “Rolling Thunder” in large lettering. This is not, upon further reading, the Broadway Ltd Rolling Thunder, but just a reference to the sound the engine now can be ordered with. Interesting. Not to mention One of the actual GenSets selling points was how quietly it operated.......:-) Thank you No NRE genset sound file can be complete without the sound of an alarm bell ringing randomly. For extra realism, the decoder should report "GS2 UNEXPECTED SHUTDOWN LOAD LIMITED". If they could figure out a way to have random prime mover explosions in the sound files, it would be even more realistic. The three times a friend invited me for a trip, at least one of the prime movers failed each trip, one quite spectacularly. It made me glad my operating experience was limited to earlier generations of GM and Alco. Even the early 244s seemed better than the new stuff... |
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Post by fr8kar on Mar 30, 2018 3:52:36 GMT -8
If they could figure out a way to have random prime mover explosions in the sound files, it would be even more realistic. The three times a friend invited me for a trip, at least one of the prime movers failed each trip, one quite spectacularly. It made me glad my operating experience was limited to earlier generations of GM and Alco. Even the early 244s seemed better than the new stuff... That sounds about right. You want to talk about quiet, when they all shut down and you're only running off trailing units, it's eerily quiet. I actually don't mind gensets when that happens provided I have enough power behind me and it's not cold. The sidewall heaters stop working when the motors shut down and those cab walls are thin. |
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Post by gevohogger on Mar 30, 2018 5:17:41 GMT -8
Didn't they make HO freight cars in the 70s? I'm talking early 70s, like maybe even before they had the GP38/GP40/SD35 locomotives. Or perhaps it was back in the 60s? By the time I came along they were long since discontinued. I may be thinking of the ones lvrr325 mentioned above.
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Post by roadkill on Mar 30, 2018 6:24:23 GMT -8
Didn't they make HO freight cars in the 70s? I'm talking early 70s, like maybe even before they had the GP38/GP40/SD35 locomotives. Or perhaps it was back in the 60s? By the time I came along they were long since discontinued. I may be thinking of the ones lvrr325 mentioned above. Atla's late '60s and early '70s freight cars were reboxed Athearn cars. |
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Post by bnsf971 on Mar 30, 2018 6:45:12 GMT -8
Didn't they make HO freight cars in the 70s? I'm talking early 70s, like maybe even before they had the GP38/GP40/SD35 locomotives. Or perhaps it was back in the 60s? By the time I came along they were long since discontinued. I may be thinking of the ones lvrr325 mentioned above. Atla's late '60s and early '70s freight cars were reboxed Athearn cars. I think they did assemble them before reboxing, FWIW. |
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Post by scaledriver on Mar 30, 2018 10:10:53 GMT -8
It just occured to me I have seen modelers with stashes of equipment rivaling this room  |
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Post by riogrande on Mar 30, 2018 10:38:14 GMT -8
It just occured to me I have seen modelers with stashes of equipment rivaling this room Whoever does with the most toys ... |
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Post by roadkill on Mar 30, 2018 10:50:11 GMT -8
It just occured to me I have seen modelers with stashes of equipment rivaling this room Whoever dies with the most toys ... FIFY ... is still dead  !!! |
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Post by jlwii2000 on Mar 30, 2018 11:42:59 GMT -8
Whoever dies with the most toys ... FIFY ... is still dead !!! Indeed, that's why I try to keep my stash in check....but it is still much larger than it should be. Scary to think what it would be like if I didn't keep it in check. |
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Post by talltim on Mar 30, 2018 14:13:49 GMT -8
Made me think of this company archive video
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Post by edwardsutorik on Mar 30, 2018 15:34:37 GMT -8
It looks like Lego wins the archival storage smackdown.
Ed
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Post by jlwii2000 on Mar 30, 2018 17:57:45 GMT -8
It looks like Lego wins the archival storage smackdown. Ed Definitely, holy smokes! |
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Post by riogrande on Mar 30, 2018 18:25:37 GMT -8
FIFY ... is still dead !!! Indeed, that's why I try to keep my stash in check....but it is still much larger than it should be. Scary to think what it would be like if I didn't keep it in check. Me too. Since I'm adding rolling stock regularly to tweak the collection, I'm also selling off stuff too too. |
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Post by lvrr325 on Apr 1, 2018 3:23:49 GMT -8
There was Atlas 1970s rolling stock. They were reboxed Athearn cars, sold in train sets with a Roco production engine. Cabooses were done in special paint, I think the others were standard production. I see one turn up now and then. I don't remember Atlas selling HO freight cars of their own tooling and manufacture until the 1990s. They were reboxed Athearn cars. |
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