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Hello Gents,

George,

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Limited time offer-- I already have two or three of these tools (the ONE tool that the company formerly known as the Atlas Tool Company actually made!)?and I've now come into possession of another one still in the package.

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If anyone on this list wants it and can have it shipped to a USA address-- just let me know via e-mail!? Not responsible for self-inflicted injuries while using it!

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Cheers,

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George, your list-owner (who has used these and has the bandages to prove it)

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I have posted a photo of an actual Union Starch tank car in the photo file "Atlas Art Work". The Atlas tank car was a three dome car while the photo is that of a signal dome car, but art work is the same.

Michael Bishop

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It appears that the A1G Group has been converted to the "new improved" Yahoo 'NEO' format.   Reviews of this new design have not been good.   Fasten your seat belts...   --George, your list owner.

While cleaning out some old boxes of train stuff, I found my
old Atlas Snap Saw (the only tool that the Atlas Tool Company ever made). As
sat there staring at it, a lot of bad memories flooded my thoughts. Like all
the pieces of track that were ruined by trying to cut them and cut fingers when
the saw would jump. I was wondering if anyone had any success using this tool
from the Inquisition.

Michael Bishop

Sir,

Great photo. And the source is Kansas, where 98% of the world's Helium is
found.

thanks,
Tom
who chooses to live in Kansas after 17 other states


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:18 PM, michael bishop <goldrod_1@...> wrote:

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I would like to add one more photo to the helium car discussion, not that
I am trying to make this a ATSF or proto site. But it shows the detail that
Atlas/Roco caught in their N scale car and what a Helium rail site plant
looked like.



Michael Bishop

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From: umtrr <gji@...>
To: a1g@...
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:37 AM
Subject: [a1g] Some Prototype Helium Car Photos...



Crossposted from the "Steam Era Freight Cars" (STFMC) YahooGroup, here are
some photos of helium cars at the Library of Congress site.

These were taken by Jack Delano who is well known as a documenter of
railroads during the World War II era-- when officially, pictures of
railroad activities were frowned upon if not downright illegal.









I think these shots illustrate how good the A1G model really is, not only
for its time but against current offerings as well.

Cheers,
George (your list-owner)

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I would like to add one more photo to the helium car discussion, not that I am trying to make this a ATSF or proto site. But it shows the detail that Atlas/Roco caught in their N scale car and what a Helium rail site plant looked like.




Michael Bishop




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From: umtrr <gji@...>
To: a1g@...
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:37 AM
Subject: [a1g] Some Prototype Helium Car Photos...



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Crossposted from the "Steam Era Freight Cars" (STFMC) YahooGroup, here are some photos of helium cars at the Library of Congress site.

These were taken by Jack Delano who is well known as a documenter of railroads during the World War II era-- when officially, pictures of railroad activities were frowned upon if not downright illegal.









I think these shots illustrate how good the A1G model really is, not only for its time but against current offerings as well.

Cheers,
George (your list-owner)

Michael and George, thank you for the helium tanks car photos. They are
just excellent!

And, in answer to a question Michael asked a bit ago about "ghost" paint
jobs, I have never seen this with Atlas cars but I have with other importers'
cars from RoCo.

I'm sure it was a result of extra cars in road names not needed and
repainting without bothering to strip the old paint off first.

Doug

Crossposted from the "Steam Era Freight Cars" (STFMC) YahooGroup, here are some photos of helium cars at the Library of Congress site.

These were taken by Jack Delano who is well known as a documenter of railroads during the World War II era-- when officially, pictures of railroad activities were frowned upon if not downright illegal.









I think these shots illustrate how good the A1G model really is, not only for its time but against current offerings as well.

Cheers,
George (your list-owner)

While working with my AHM collect of cars which were made by ROCO at the same time as they were making cars for Atlas, I have discovered what I call "ghost car" under the paint scheme you can see that the car had been paint for a different scheme. Has anyone come upon this with the Atlas cars? I know that Atlas released many cars with incomplete paint scheme; I just saw one on EBay, a UP gondola with one side of the car lettered.

Michael Bishop

I am looking for the following items to repair a few cars: one car weight for a covered hopper and one of the transformer loads for the center depressed flat car. Also I am trying to find a list of cars that Roco did for AHM, a copy would work fine. Thanks for any help.

Michael Bishop

Hello all.

I have prepared what I think is a pretty darn good artwork file
for the SP&S 1940s (wide-band oval) steam loco herald.

My quandry is that I don't know the EXACT size that these heralds were on the various engines. I have made guesses just based on looking at photos and some brass models. Does anyone have actual company drawings or otherwise MEASURED drawings of the oval football herald used on the steam logos in the 40s? How many different sizes were there?

It looks to me like they were all the same size, but my instinct tells me that they probably made them a little smaller on small tenders for things like switchers.

Thank you,


Max Magliaro

In my last post, I obviously forgot where I was writing (I get involved in
many forums) and I could just have said there are pictures in THIS group in
the photo section.

&#92;:^)

Doug