Atlas buys Walthers tooling

[ljudice]

Fix the PD hoppers!

That would be cool...

[haasmarc]

FA-1 & FB-1 as well.

[sirenwerks]

So what would that include in regards to freight rolling stock?


Log flats
Difco side dump
Russel plow
Coil car
OB auto box
NACC insulated boxes
Greenville 100T
Cyro reefer
GSC Commonwealth flats
GSC Commonwealth bulkhead flats
Pulpwood flats
PD Hopper
PS 4427
Bay window caboose

What am I missing?

fixed a micro-font issue - gfh

[mmagliaro]

YES.  A few small updates on the Berkshire would make it one of the greatest steam locomotives ever.
Ditto on the 0-8-0.  Tender pickup work, some weight, and (in the Berk's case), DCC readiness would
make these spectacular entries back into the N Scale steam market.


Berk--SHIRE... Berk--SHIRE!  .... Berk--SHIRE!!!!


And the crowd goes wild!

[RSWController]

So what would that include in regards to freight rolling stock?


Log flats
Difco side dump
Russel plow
Coil car
OB auto box
NACC insulated boxes
Greenville 100T
Cyro reefer
GSC Commonwealth flats
GSC Commonwealth bulkhead flats
Pulpwood flats
PD Hopper
PS 4427
Bay window caboose


What am I missing?

Thrall 5-unit well car.
Ballast car.

That’s all I can think of.

[C855B]

I dunno just how soon we'll see the really old stuff like the Erie-builts. In the pocket analysis, I would expect any re-releases under Atlas to be in reverse order - most recent are first - as these would require the least amount of tweaking to bring to current market expectations such as ease of DCC-capability or even chassis space for sound.

FA-1 & FB-1 as well.

Case in point. Solid performers and pretty reasonable shells, the most recent revision is now 16 years old and the brick-like chassis will need more than a little rework to update for electronics. Good candidate for "Classic" line, but the market is sort of tough now for lower-end models that cannot be reasonably user-upgraded for sound.

I'm really, really interested in how this is going to turn out. The handful of Life-Like locos I have in the fleet are favorite performers, and even Walthers managed to improve, much less not screw-up the GP20, which I certainly appreciate ('cept for the loss of traction with the wheel-blackening That's an "oops".).

[coosvalley]

I would LOVE to see the shorter WKW GP38-2 fuel tank chassis make its way into the Atlas line...

[Kev1340]

Definitely encouraging news. Personnally I'd like to see the 0-8-0 and cryo reefers in short order!

Cheers,

Kev

[High Hood]

I would LOVE to see the shorter WKW GP38-2 fuel tank chassis make its way into the Atlas line...

Yes! Southern had plenty of GP38-2's with short fuel tanks.

I'm really excited that now Atlas has the GP20 tooling, a correct N&W passenger GP9 can be made. While it may not be an actual RTR model, if Atlas produces parts it would still be better than nothing.

And please rerun the 2-8-8-2 in Virginian!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I'm really excited that now Atlas has the GP20 tooling, a correct N&W passenger GP9 can be made. While it may not be an actual RTR model, if Atlas produces parts it would still be better than nothing.

Another interesting aspect of that. Atlas NOW has a mechanism that can support chop nosed GP7s and GP9s. They've shown their willingness to do oddball units before (SD26s, SD60Es), so we may still some day see weird stuff like Paducah Geeps from them.

[Joetrain59]

Looks like my April Fools joke came true after all!
 Joe D

[Curtis Kyger]

If the C424 is partially owned by True Line Trains, I would hope Atlas could negotiate to either purchase the True Line rights or do a joint offering to get this great model back onto the market.  The same mechanism can support variations of shells representing all the various phases of C424s and C425s and paint schemes could run right up to current short lines.  Add modern ESU sound in a Gold Series release and WOW, the sales could be huge....

[asarge]

Now that's beleivable. Having worked in a hobby shop, I would never trust scuttlebutt.

Hope we can get new runs of some older stuff with DCC ready and equipped loco's.

Don't know if some of the old freight car tooling was owned by WKW though.

[learmoia]

Shipsure gave a very vague hint at this when the SW1500 supply fell apart.. So hopefully the SW1500 will be back on track..

~Ian

[Blazeman]

Wonder what their production plans are?  I've got an FA/FB set at White Rose for conversion (including frame milling). Something tells me if I let the guy proceed (he's only had them since November), Atlas will roll those out first.

If that's the case, a couple of you owe me big time.