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What year did Atlas bring out their three snap track bridges? And in the 1969 catalog they list several types of street lights; did they ever bring those out? I had some lights that were like them, but they were not from Atlas. Michael Bishop

I'm trying to contact Dan McDonough I exchange some emails in December, 2008 and I lost their email. If someone could help me I apreciate. Thanks. Carlos Eduardo (from Brasil)

Hi, everybody, As a result of looking at my examples of this car because of a thread on the Atlas forum, I discovered two obvious variations. Actually, I have known about one of them (black ends on some) for a long time but put off writing anything about it so I include it now. I hope the scans show up soon in the miscelaneous folder of the photo section. I know images have to be approved now and George has been busy. Doug

I always had the feeling these structures were based on European prototypes - am I off base thinking that? Mark

goldrod_1 uploaded some pics a week ago but I see no commentary on them. As well as the reason, some much large originals would be nice to see some of the buildings details. Damn I'd by both of those now... (for a proposed layout) and probably create a similar footprint to swap out the stations for era changes... cheers dave

I have the following Atlas cars for sale, all in their original boxes with inserts. All are in like new condition, never having been run. 2281 SP Bulkhead Flat 2382 CN 40' M. Boxcar 2387 Linde Steel Boxcar 2462 Atlas Chem. 26' Chemical Tank 2463 Dow Chem. 26' Chemical Tank Buy all 5 for $30.00 and get a FREE Atlas Pacemaker boxcar, road #170267 in an MTL case and FREE Shipping via Priority Mail. PayPal only. Thanx!

Atlas/Trainman is releasing their Centerflow in the Gulf paint scheme, very close to the one they did in the 60's. The new car will have three road numbers. Michael Bishop

I stumbled onto this in a "used" train shop - it appears to be yet another variation: http://tinypic.com/r/9ro8z5/7 http://tinypic.com/r/vwv4hu/7 Interesting eh? "Tan" bulheads and deck. Gotta love the spartan packaging with the plastic "retainers" (this the "3" on them). Mark

The October 2010 pre-order announcements from Atlas contains one car that is, for us A1G fans, a trip "back to the future." Catalog numbers 33011 and 33012 are forty foot plug door boxcars painted for "Therm Ice" dry ice. Therm Ice was one of the paint schemes on the A1G forty foot plug door boxcars (Catalog 2223). The artwork shown in the Atlas 4th Quarter 2010 Catalog is similar to that on the A1G release from so many years ago, but as you'd expect the printing will be more complete and much more finely executed. (For example, the "When Empty Return To..." box on the new model is just an outline box on the A1G car.) The new cars will have reporting marks of TICX 8901 and 8907; the A1G car carried TICX 8903. The prototype series was numbered TICX 8900 to 8920 according to the Official Railway Equipment Register for January 1964. The cars were registered to National Car Company. They were less tall than the Atlas model (either one) with an extreme height of 13 feet 10 inches. I do recall seeing a prototype photo somewhere but I can't recall where at this writing. The real Therm Ice dry cars occassionally showed up in the Harismus Cove yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad, not far from my boyhood home in Jersey City. That makes the release "back to the future" for more sentimental reasons than just being a throwback of sorts to A1G. Cheers, George (Your list owner)

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)

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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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

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, 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

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.] _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2

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

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. http://www.finenscale.com/loads.html Michael Bishop

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I stumbled onto this today: http://rossfink.com/Atlas%20First%20Generation%20Building%20Kits It's from Ross Fink (the same guy with the A1G kits page) http://a1gkits.rossfink.com 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

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

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