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Updating Atlas Wikipedia Page with A1G-any volunteers
Hey gang, I wandered over to the Wikipedia page for Atlas... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Model_Railroad ...and believe it or not, there is not a single mention of their N Scale Rolling
By G.J. Irwin · #1141 ·
Re: Atlas 2287 IC 41677 vs IC 41877
Note there are two different Tampo stamps on these cars. One has "Mainline of Mid-America" all the way across under "Illinois Central". The other has "Mainline of Mid-America" crowded over on the
By Douglas Gosha · #1140 ·
Re: Atlas 2287 IC 41677 vs IC 41877
Hi Ian, I have both color variant of the IC box car. The Orange and brown cars both read IC 41677. The Orange cars "I" on black circle logo is split and off center towards the bottom. The brown
By guitarrick_c1812 · #1139 ·
Atlas 2287 IC 41677 vs IC 41877
Has anyone found legible proof that Atlas released 41677 and 41877 in the brown color? Or is 41877 the result of print stamp wear on 41677? I'm looking at 5 examples.. 3 brown, 2 orange.. Both
By learmoia <learmoia@...> · #1138 ·
Re: A1G 2380 Series: Box Cars, Steel, 40 Foot, Single Door, 9 Foot Height
The following link might help. Michael N Scale Freight Car Prototypes? | | | | | | | | | | | N Scale Freight Car Prototypes? Still Other Prototypes for the Atlas/ Lifelike X-29? Now
By MIKE <goldrod_1@...> · #1137 ·
Re: A1G 2380 Series: Box Cars, Steel, 40 Foot, Single Door, 9 Foot Height
And here's the BACHMANN car. N Scale Rio Grande D&RGW 60066 Freight Box Car | eBay T (
By [email protected] · #1136 ·
A1G 2380 Series: Box Cars, Steel, 40 Foot, Single Door, 9 Foot Height
By NYCAP Email <tom39@...> · #1135 ·
Re: A1G 2380 Series: Box Cars, Steel, 40 Foot, Single Door, 9 Foot Height
Yeah Thanks Ira, that's the REAL 67598, that is from the last (1946) series new boxcars 10'4" tall: 67500-67999 110 XM 40-06 3850 PSC 3=4- 1946 Gen Service Riv 12 pan, 4/4 ID, 6 SSD, Duryea u.f The
By dave w <groupsmaster@...> · #1134 ·
Re: A1G 2380 Series: Box Cars, Steel, 40 Foot, Single Door, 9 Foot Height
By Bill & Sue · #1133 ·
Re: A1G 2380 Series: Box Cars, Steel, 40 Foot, Single Door, 9 Foot Height
I found the attached picture of DRGW 67598 on the rrpicturs archive site. It is in oxide red NOT in cookie box paint scheme. It may be possible it once was in the cookie box paint scheme.
By igoldberg1 <igoldberg1@...> · #1132 ·
A1G 2380 Series: Box Cars, Steel, 40 Foot, Single Door, 9 Foot Height
Good Morning Gentlemen, AIUTTL... ;-0 Does the cogniscenti know of prototypes for these shorter (9' IH) height cars? Yes I know of the MP 'Express' cars, but others? The Grande certainly had none
By dave w <groupsmaster@...> · #1131 ·
Life After A1G: Roco and Walthers 40 Foot Double Door Boxcars
Gang, Following the end of the A1G period, the Roco tooling for the A1G 40 Foot Double Door Boxcars was reused twice.?? I have added tables to the A1G 2280 page to document this.? I have a number
By G.J. Irwin · #1130 ·
Re: #3000 -Honesty in Advertising?
I agree, I'm not interested in prototypicalness of vintage models other than maybe seeing what they were 'trying' to reproduce. I'd be more interested in efforts to produce similar data on other
By learmoia <learmoia@...> · #1129 ·
Re: #3000 -Honesty in Advertising?
Dave and all, I think it's fair to say that only a small fraction of N Scalers today have even a modest interest in A1G. Of those, I really wonder how many are that interested in how 50 year old
By G.J. Irwin · #1128 ·
Re: #3000 -Honesty in Advertising?
I was also intimating that George could improve the 'information value' of A1G site with addition of? noting the precise dimensions in view of discrepency. regards davew
By dave w <groupsmaster@...> · #1127 ·
Re: #3000 -Honesty in Advertising?
Hah Ian, you bad man... Well yeah they do - more on the 'tank' rack flat when I get my summary done (a close clone that is). cheers 'davew
By dave w <groupsmaster@...> · #1126 ·
Re: #3000 -Honesty in Advertising?
Do either of those cars have a prototype?.. Regardless of length accuracy. And since when have guys been concerned about length..? ~Ian
By learmoia <learmoia@...> · #1125 ·
Re: #3000 -Honesty in Advertising?
Ok Doug, short and to the popint. To say, again for the: *A1G 3020 Series: 50 Foot Container Flat Cars.* These measure 54' external and 53' IL. Crazy stuff. I'll get back to these as I have a
By dave w <groupsmaster@...> · #1124 ·
Re: #3000 -Honesty in Advertising?
It is in keeping with early N scale for descriptions to not be entirely accurate. \:^) Doug
By Douglas Gosha · #1123 ·
#3000 -Honesty in Advertising?
and the consequences for history. I'll just lob this out there and see what the high-ups think. *A1G 3000 Series: 60 Foot Bulkhead Log Flat Cars* Nominally stated as 60' in length-these are a shy
By dave w <groupsmaster@...> · #1122 ·