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Re: Pig Palace Upgrades...

michael bishop
 

Other than doing the Kadeetruckand coupler change, I added some more weight to the car, it tracked better going through turnouts. The only other thing I thought of was to add a deck and load it up with pigs, but after pricingthat manypigs it ran empty.�

Michael Bishop

--- On Sat, 9/18/10, umtrr <gji@...> wrote:

From: umtrr <gji@...>
Subject: [a1g] Pig Palace Upgrades...
To: a1g@...
Date: Saturday, September 18, 2010, 6:38 PM

A post "on another network" regarding the 85 foot stock cars aka the "Pig Palace" cars had me thinking: Has anyone modified these cars for one reason or another?

The most I've seen is the swap of the original trucks for Micro-Trains, the extended draft gear of course.

Cheers,
George
(your list owner, shamelessly trying to start a little traffic here)











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Pig Palace Upgrades...

umtrr
 

A post "on another network" regarding the 85 foot stock cars aka the "Pig Palace" cars had me thinking: Has anyone modified these cars for one reason or another?

The most I've seen is the swap of the original trucks for Micro-Trains, the extended draft gear of course.

Cheers,
George
(your list owner, shamelessly trying to start a little traffic here)


lone star biuldings for sale

john fabre
 

hi my name is john and I have 5 or 6 of the n gage lone*star buildings for sale ....
anyone interested I am in SO CAL 92626




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Passenger car parts

goldrod_1
 

I am in need of the barrow nuts and truck mounting bolts for the passenger cars. I have two cars that I am trying to repair.

Thanks for any help.

Michael Bishop


Re: A1G Stories was: Recent spam mail on A1G

 

Don't sweat it Rick; likeI said I had to block my nephew for the exact same message. Thank you for acknowledging the issue!

As for A1G cars; suprisiongly there are a number of events where strange things turn up over here. A buddy recently landed several 33,000 tank cars (the yello scheme ones I believe) and my personal hunting choice is Bay Window cabeese. I'm not taking by the Micro-Trains version (the apparent necessity to support toy-train operations making them too high) and would rather get older Atlas models and detail them out. When I have enough of a glut I'll even try my hand at blanking windows and un-roofwalking them!

Other than that I am going to pay attention to reasonable priced transition era cars from now on too (I am predominanttly a "modern" guy) since I want to have some retro sessions. The season is just warming up, so hopefully I'll get lucky...
--
Dennis C. Kamper
dckuk@...



---- guitarrick_c1812 <guitarrick_c1812@...> wrote:

To everyone here on A1G,
on another note:
Since moving here to the Phoenix area makes it a little harder to collect A1G cars. Theirs only 2 places for swapmeets that both have them twice a year. The problem is the private vendors bring out the same stuff all the time. Unlike living in Southern California. So it's off to places like ebay, N scale Supply or places like N Scale Yard Sale. Have to get a little more creative then I like but sure miss going to the good ol' swapmeets in SoCal were I could see everything before making any purchases.
So what kind of stories does anyone one have on collecting Atlas 1st Generation cars?


Re: Recent spam mail on A1G

 

Apology accepted, Rick although don't worry about it. I just deleted the
obviously bogus email so no big deal.

As far as A1G cars and swapmeets/trainshows, I believe I acquired only 1
car at a trainshow out of all of mine that I had to get to complete my
collection. I probably only had about 30 cars I got back in the day to start with.

The 1 car is the Chicago North Western bay window caboose and this was
eventually superceded by one I got in a Chicago area hobby shop in NIB
condition.

Other than that, it was 100% eBay in the late ninties. I now look at my
rollong stock database and shudder to see what I paid for some of them.

Doug


Recent spam mail on A1G

 

To everyone here on A1G,
I want to apologize for the recent spam mail that was coming from my old e-mail address ( guitarrick @ hotmail . com) that everyone here probably received. Over the past couple of years I had this problem with hotmail causing me to change accounts twice. So to combat whom ever is getting inside the hotmail accounts I decided to drop using it all together and go with someone completely different. Though I still wanted to use my old name I beefed it up a little. I also strengthen up the password (and all new too) to make it hopefully harder to crack........
on another note:
Since moving here to the Phoenix area makes it a little harder to collect A1G cars. Theirs only 2 places for swapmeets that both have them twice a year. The problem is the private vendors bring out the same stuff all the time. Unlike living in Southern California. So it's off to places like ebay, N scale Supply or places like N Scale Yard Sale. Have to get a little more creative then I like but sure miss going to the good ol' swapmeets in SoCal were I could see everything before making any purchases.
So what kind of stories does anyone one have on collecting Atlas 1st Generation cars?
Rick


E-mail change & no more spam!

Rick Will
 

To everyone,
I want to apologize for the recent spam mail that has come from my e-mail address.
So to combat whom ever hacked into this mail site I have setup a new account at Yahoo and will be deleting this one. My new address is guitarrick_c1812@... . Please make a note of this and add me to your account.

Rick

PS...IMPORTANT!! Please e-mail me so I can save your addresses to my new account!!

[Moderator's Note: Since the spam is still running fairly rampant I'm going to leave things on Moderate for a while.]


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Re: ADMIN: This group now being moderated

 

I had to block my Nephew in LA from sending me messages as he had the same problem displayed earlier. Fool hasn't learned nor fixed the problem, but hopefully "our" man is aware that he has a problem and is a bit better at reacting to the issue...

Thanks for doing it
--
Dennis C. Kamper
dckuk@...



---- umtrr <gji@...> wrote:

A few potentially dangerous messages have been getting through lately.

Therefore, effective immediately this group is going back to Moderated status. Hopefully this will be a temporary condition.

I will approve messages as quickly as I can. Fortunately, this is a relatively quiet group.

Cheers,
George
Your A1G List Owner




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ADMIN: This group now being moderated

umtrr
 

A few potentially dangerous messages have been getting through lately.

Therefore, effective immediately this group is going back to Moderated status. Hopefully this will be a temporary condition.

I will approve messages as quickly as I can. Fortunately, this is a relatively quiet group.

Cheers,
George
Your A1G List Owner


Some after market items

goldrod_1
 

While hunting for some car loads for some of my freight cars I found this site which has some nice looking hopper and gondola loads that will fit the Atlas cars.




Michael Bishop


Re: A1G Structures

goldrod_1
 

Thanks for posting. It brought back a lot good memories; I built just about everything shown there, other than the tunnel portals. I was in junior high (middle school now days) when Atlas had these and at Christmas everyone in my family gave me Atlas kits as gifts. I was busy till Easter building the kits.

Michael

--- In a1g@..., "Mark" <williamsonwv@...> wrote:

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I stumbled onto this today:



It's from Ross Fink (the same guy with the A1G kits page)



Great trip down memory lane! Many of these kits are currently marketed by Model Power and/or Faller (Faller bought out Pola, the original maker of these kits IIRC).

Thanks Ross!

Mark


A1G Structures

 

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I stumbled onto this today:



It's from Ross Fink (the same guy with the A1G kits page)



Great trip down memory lane! Many of these kits are currently marketed by Model Power and/or Faller (Faller bought out Pola, the original maker of these kits IIRC).

Thanks Ross!

Mark


A1G Miscellaneous Parts and Pieces

RobertParsons
 

I have completed my collection and need the following liners, boxes and lid.
COMPLETE BOXES
#2301 Santa Fe Blue Door
#3134 NYC 86' Hi Cube
#3004 DRGW 60' Bulkhead Log
#3024 MKT Container Flat
#2272 PRR Caboose Cupola

BLUE LINER
#2282 IC Bulkhead Flat
#2264 General American Single Dome
#2224 Blatz

LID
#2622 PRR Combine

If anyone has any of these items and is willing to part with them let me know and maybe we can make a deal.
Thanks
Robert L. Parsons


SET OF A1G CARS

ddd_67735
 

Would anyone be interested in buying a full set of A1G cars, minus 2..I'm going to be getting rid of all my N scale stuff..Think about it and make a resonable offer..Don


Re: In need of....

michael bishop
 

Sorry,
I thought I sent this off list.

Michael

--- On Sat, 11/7/09, michael bishop <goldrod_1@...> wrote:


From: michael bishop <goldrod_1@...>
Subject: Re: [a1g] In need of....
To: a1g@...
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 7:15 PM






Carlos,

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I would be interested in the shell that you have. Please email the amount that your a seeking. Do you have PayPal? If not, I can do an Internation Money Order Western Union.

Michael Bishop

--- On Sat, 11/7/09, amadori <amadori@uol. com.br> wrote:

From: amadori <amadori@uol. com.br>
Subject: Re: [a1g] In need of....
To: a1g@yahoogroups. com
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 3:46 PM



Hi Michael,

I have a shell plus a chassis, without motor/trucks of an E9 Pennsylvania locomotive.
A picture from Doug Gosha's A1G Locomotives Page is in this link:

urnal.com/ a1g/a1glocos/ PennsyE8. jpg

It has the clear plastic pice in very good shape.
If you want, tell me.

Carlos Eduardo ( From Brasil )

Em 07/11/2009 01:35, goldrod_1 < goldrod_1@yahoo. com > escreveu:



I am trying to find a headlight/number board clear plastic piece for the E8/9, even if I have to buy a shell to get one. Or does anyone know a part source for one. Thanks for any help.

Michael Bishop

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Re: In need of....

michael bishop
 

Carlos,

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I would be interested in the shell that you have. Please email the amount that your a seeking. Do you have PayPal? If not, I can do an Internation Money Order Western Union.

Michael Bishop

--- On Sat, 11/7/09, amadori <amadori@...> wrote:


From: amadori <amadori@...>
Subject: Re: [a1g] In need of....
To: a1g@...
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 3:46 PM







Hi Michael,

I have a shell plus a chassis, without motor/trucks of an E9 Pennsylvania locomotive.
A picture from Doug Gosha's A1G Locomotives Page is in this link:

urnal.com/ a1g/a1glocos/ PennsyE8. jpg

It has the clear plastic pice in very good shape.
If you want, tell me.

Carlos Eduardo ( From Brasil )

Em 07/11/2009 01:35, goldrod_1 < goldrod_1@yahoo. com > escreveu:



I am trying to find a headlight/number board clear plastic piece for the E8/9, even if I have to buy a shell to get one. Or does anyone know a part source for one. Thanks for any help.

Michael Bishop











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Re: In need of....

 

Hi Michael,

I have a shell plus a chassis, without motor/trucks of an E9 Pennsylvania locomotive.
A picture from Doug Gosha's A1G Locomotives Page is in this link:



It has the clear plastic pice in very good shape.
If you want, tell me.

Carlos Eduardo ( From Brasil )


Em 07/11/2009 01:35, goldrod_1 < goldrod_1@... > escreveu:






I am trying to find a headlight/number board clear plastic piece for the E8/9, even if I have to buy a shell to get one. Or does anyone know a part source for one. Thanks for any help.

Michael Bishop


In need of....

goldrod_1
 

I am trying to find a headlight/number board clear plastic piece for the E8/9, even if I have to buy a shell to get one. Or does anyone know a part source for one. Thanks for any help.

Michael Bishop


Reading Flat Car

RobertParsons
 

I finally obtained an Atlas Reading Flatcar #2374. At the same time I bought the four flatcars of the set with the Rivarossi name on them. Suprisingly,the Rivarossi cars are identical to the Atlas cars. The color, writing, and even the Atlas logo on the bottom are all the same. When you put the four cars side by side you can see no difference. They came in a box with the Atlas name embossed on the top. The only difference is the paper insert which has all of the Rivarossi info on it.
Apparently Rivarossi chose to market a car from the same mold. The only change they made was the advertising label insert.
On a side note each of the 8 cars I have came with fifteen stakes. The three sprues fit nicely in the pocket of the blue insert. It is obvious the Atlas and Rivarossi never intended to supply enough stakes to fit all of the pockets. I called Atlas and they make the identical stakes today and are available as a part item.