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Has there ever been information from Atlas as to how many pieces of N scale items that were ever made in those days of the 1st generation. I have always wonder how many feet of track or how many boxcars were sold in those early days of N scale.

I wonder if they even know; there had to have been a LOT, based on the number I see still floating around in trade & sales. Think about the number that sold Atlas; from Dime Stores to Hardware Stores, and how much stuff used to sit on shelves.

A WHOLE lot...

Dennis
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Dennis C. Kamper
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---- MIKE <goldrod_1@...> wrote:

I'm sure there were records kept back then for accounting purposes.

It's just a matter of if they were kept through all these years.

Prolly not.

Dennis is right though. There was a LOT.

Especially track as Atlas track was arguably the best what with easier
radius switches and such. Atlas' standard switches had a radius through them
of 19" whereas a lot of the other brands were really sharp radius even down
to, like 7".

And Atlas always had #6 switches available and, back then, double slips and
three ways.

Oh, and let's not forget the lighted bumpers! &#92;:^)

Doug

My guess is that there were thousands if not tens of thousands of pieces of individual rolling stock items made over the A1G years. Unlike today's "limited runs," cars were made to stock; and there were a lot more places to which stock was sent: department stores, discount stores, sporting goods stores, even a drug store with a hobby section not far from where I used to live in New Jersey.

In addition, post-A1G the same tooling was marketed by Rivarossi and then Arnold. That adds more copies to the mix.

Contrast that with today, where it's possible that only a few hundred copies of an item are made as regular runs. I've heard it said that sometimes there are only around 100 (!) pieces made of a specific locomotive paint scheme/road number combination. If you do the math, no wonder prices are where they are.

Track piece counts have probably reached into the millions by now...

Cheers,
George
A1G List Owner