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Post by gevohogger on Jan 31, 2024 7:57:32 GMT -8
If Athearn Genesis and Scale Trains locomotives could match Atlas's level of fit and finish, they'd be about 100% perfect. Heck, just matching Atlas's perfect handrails would put them about 99% there.
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Post by riogrande on Jan 31, 2024 8:37:42 GMT -8
If Athearn Genesis and Scale Trains locomotives could match Atlas's level of fit and finish, they'd be about 100% perfect. Heck, just matching Atlas's perfect handrails would put them about 99% there. The reported issue with ScaleTrains are bad motors - being reported over at TrainOrders. But ScaleTrains has reportedly been taking care of it. Also ESU decoders failure rate as well. Apparently there was a batch with bad components. |
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Post by lvrr325 on Jan 31, 2024 16:43:20 GMT -8
On the other hand, Atlas engines are still around $180-$200 for DC and add $110 for sound. They also have a better discount than say Rapido, so I can sell them that much cheaper - those U30Cs Hogtrainz is showing $132 for a silent version. And that's a newly tooled shell. Thank goodness the prices haven't increased like groceries have.
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Post by cemr5396 on Jan 31, 2024 16:53:43 GMT -8
If Athearn Genesis and Scale Trains locomotives could match Atlas's level of fit and finish, they'd be about 100% perfect. Heck, just matching Atlas's perfect handrails would put them about 99% there. The reported issue with ScaleTrains are bad motors - being reported over at TrainOrders. But ScaleTrains has reportedly been taking care of it. Also ESU decoders failure rate as well. Apparently there was a batch with bad components. hard to call it "a bad batch of components" when ESU has consistently had reliability problems for a few years now. Have they been using these "bad components" this whole time, and if so why are they knowingly using bad components for years on end? Same deal with bad motors in Scale Trains locos. That's not a new problem either. There is a point that is reached where something goes from the exception to the expected. |
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Post by talltim on Feb 1, 2024 4:22:40 GMT -8
I've recently got a C39-8 (my first Scaletrains loco) with some sort of decoder/motherboard/motor wiring issue. To be fair, they have said to send it back for rapairs, but as I paid an extra £54 tax and fees to get into the UK, I want to make sure of the situatio with not paying again when it comes back to me
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Post by gevohogger on Feb 1, 2024 4:49:17 GMT -8
If Athearn Genesis and Scale Trains locomotives could match Atlas's level of fit and finish, they'd be about 100% perfect. Heck, just matching Atlas's perfect handrails would put them about 99% there. The reported issue with ScaleTrains are bad motors - being reported over at TrainOrders. But ScaleTrains has reportedly been taking care of it. Also ESU decoders failure rate as well. Apparently there was a batch with bad components. I don't have a layout, so I can't speak for their motors. But I was thinking more along the lines of the leaning handrailings, the glue blobs, the crooked numberboards and the mis-matched paints that continue to plague both Scale Trains and Genesis. |
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Post by wagnersteve on Feb 2, 2024 16:15:16 GMT -8
2/2/2024, starting about 7:11 p.m., EST
By sometime this afternoon, if not sooner, Atlas had corrected the date of the letter on page 2 of its latest catalog, but not the "Volume 1" designation on its front cover. I haven't looked at their website again in the past few hours -- too much serious stuff to do at home and elsewhere since.
I haven't yet seen the "official" weather prediction based on Punxsutawney Phil's having seen his shadow or not this morning on Gobbler's Nob in the Pennsylvania town after which he was named. Mass. Audubon's younger (and female) official groundhog at Drumlin Farm in Lincoln, Mass., wasn't allowed outside this morning because she's been losing hair and might have been too cold.
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