New Atlas 53' Intermodal Well Car

[GaryHinshaw]

@GaryHinshaw
Um, you read the thread and didn't fix the scale icon?

I’m out of town, using my phone. Didn’t have time...

I thought the 53’ wells were original, and that the 40’ wells were cut down from 48’ Husky Stacks.  The only mods I know of on these is the removal of the trailer hitches. Anyone?

[cfritschle]

I thought the 53’ wells were original, and that the 40’ wells were cut down from 48’ Husky Stacks.  The only mods I know of on these is the removal of the trailer hitches. Anyone?

The reason I asked was that it looks like there are sections spliced into the car in the prototype photo. 

Here is a photo of DTTX 471500 that does a better job of showing what appears to be splices.  http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3038357

[cfritschle]

I found the answer to my question.  This is a rebuild of the 48-ft all-purpose well car, not a rebuild of the 48-ft Husky Stack.  Walthers already has this model in HO.

Here is a link to the Model Railroader review of the Walthers model.  http://mrr.trains.com/news-reviews/staff-reviews/2016/02/wm-k-walthers-ho-scale-well-car

Edited for clarity!   

[GaryHinshaw]

Thanks Carl, good to know.  So Atlas will be producing both the 40' and 53' rebuilds. 

[Missaberoad]

I’m out of town, using my phone. Didn’t have time...

I thought the 53’ wells were original, and that the 40’ wells were cut down from 48’ Husky Stacks.  The only mods I know of on these is the removal of the trailer hitches. Anyone?

I see lots of 53' Gunderson conversions at work, both Husky Stack and All Purpose, the welds are very obvious up close... I don't ever remember seeing a thrall car "stretched" however fwiw.

[Pathtimber]

This is super exciting. Hope they do C. H. Robinson and Matson in future runs of containers.

Here's also hoping they are comparable with the Scaletrains and Kato 53' containers I have amassed!

[ryan_wilkerson]

Atlas has posted some pages with more info on the new well car and containers:

53' Well http://www.atlasrr.com/NFreight/n53container.htm?utm_source=therailwire#.WgDjxnZrwm4
53' Container http://www.atlasrr.com/NFreight/n53wellcar.htm?utm_source=asshats#.WgDj6nZrwm4

[Scottl]

Nice, the range of intermodal equipment is getting better all the time.  Still a few stand-out gaps in the fleet though.