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Post by davemk on Feb 3, 2022 6:45:43 GMT -8
Engine is 50 years old. I've cleaned the wheels and electrical pickups as best that I can without disassembly. Very slow and stops on Atlas turnout frogs. I was informed that this engine is a lost cause but I have not given up yet. Any ideas on improving the performance?
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DMK
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Post by grabirons on Feb 19, 2022 16:32:24 GMT -8
Upload your pictures to imgur or flickr then post the links here. Hope this helps!
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Post by douggosha on May 14, 2022 9:39:28 GMT -8
Sorry I am so late but click on the link at the bottom of my post to go to my site with information about this and the other Atlas first generation locomotives.
Doug
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Post by lvrr325 on May 15, 2022 2:55:58 GMT -8
it stops on the frogs because the wheelbase is so short. Energizing your frogs would help.
Is this the American style engine? If so I think it would later be sold under Life-Like and Model Power branding. Most of the early Atlas N locos were Rivarossi made and included an 0-6-0T that was very European in design.
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Post by douggosha on May 26, 2022 11:11:29 GMT -8
The first Atlas 0-6-0 (side tank, road number 147) is a Mehanotehnika model from Yugoslavia. The second Atlas 0-6-0 (saddle tank) is a RoCo model from Austria. The Atlas 0-4-0 with tender is a Rivarossi model from Italy. There was another 0-4-0 by Rivarossi without a tender not sold in the USA.
The first 0-6-0 was later imported by Life-Like (road number 492) and others with the same mechanism. The second 0-6-0 was copied by others with an unknown mechanism.
Doug
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Post by lvrr325 on May 28, 2022 1:15:25 GMT -8
The very first one was an Italian or European engine.
Atlas still had a batch of that N-scale stuff in stock, and sold it to a guy who did shows selling primarily Atlas and Atlas parts, roughly 20 years ago, because I bought a bunch of the C-liners and among the stuff was one of these 0-6-0Ts still in the box, with a warped shell either from the motor getting hot or being left out in the sun. I bought it kind of as a gag and it's here somewhere. I always presumed it was actually made by Rivarossi because the C-liners, the 0-8-0, 4-6-2, 2-8-2 and 2-8-4 all were. Probably other stuff I'm forgetting. I know the guy basically gave them away and I made some pretty decent money flipping the stuff on eBay at the time. I think all of them were returns for one reason or another, although some ran just fine.
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Post by douggosha on Jul 9, 2022 15:18:17 GMT -8
As I stated above, Atlas' first 0-6-0 was made by Mehanotehnika in Yugoslavia.
There were two guys who handled a lot of early Atlas N scale locomotives after Atlas quit selling them. One was Bob (I can't remember his last name) in Pennsylvania and he was still selling parts on eBay within the last three years or so. The other guy was George Smith who typically would sell between 5 and 10 A1G locomotives in a lot with one working and the others in need of repair. I bought many from him back in the late nineties - early two thousands.
For a history of and information about the first Atlas locomotives, visit my site by clicking on the link at the bottom of my post.
Doug
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