Atlas Winter 2025 Catalog

[conrail1973]

I can’t post the link on my phone, but we’re getting a C424 (yay) and a Berkshire 2-8-4 locomotives from Atlas!

[samusi01]

Link: https://shop.atlasrr.com/d-733-winter-2025-ho-n-catalog.aspx

PDF: https://download.atlasrr.com/0125MCPDF/Winter2025HONMSRPOnly1.pdf

[Mark5]

Oh my, NKP Berkshires!

Sign me up!

C424s too! (looks like all are same phase as previous LL releases)

This first production run showcases the Phase 1 C424. Future releases to include other common variations such as the Phase 2 model.

Mark

[sizemore]

Nice to see the Life-Like tooling making a comeback. The Golden Spike #759 is a good choice, hope to see the standard 1970's excursion paintjob.

The S.

[Missaberoad]

Exciting news about other phases of c424 coming.
CP and GBW for me this time around!

[Englewood]

I was hoping for a Big Boy. 

I'm in for a Berkshire, just have to figure out which road name, as this is more of a collection thing. I'm happy to see the Golden Pig Service trailers, I'll probably get a half dozen, as these are important to my modeling. It's been years since the last run, and the Micro Trains version sold out very quickly. And a Montgomery Ward's trailer. I think most of my clothes came from that store when I was growing up.

[reinhardtjh]

It's interesting both the Berkshire and C424 Gold sound are SoundTraxx and not ESU while the MP15DC is ESU.  All three are first time sound offerings. Will the MP15DC be a special board like the ALCo S-2? Or will a LokSound Nano fit?  At least the Berkshire has a Next18 so that a choice of decoder is possible if you get the Silver version.  No mention of what's in the ALCo C424 though.  Perhaps there is a custom board like in the recent other hood units.

I'll have to think about the Berkshire.  I had some Life-Like/Walthers versions but sold them.  The shell is wrong for the C&O Kanawha since they switched the locations of the steam dome and sandbox.

[nickelplate759]

It's interesting both the Berkshire and C424 Gold sound are SoundTraxx and not ESU while the MP15DC is ESU.  All three are first time sound offerings. Will the MP15DC be a special board like the ALCo S-2? Or will a LokSound Nano fit?  At least the Berkshire has a Next18 so that a choice of decoder is possible if you get the Silver version.  No mention of what's in the ALCo C424 though.  Perhaps there is a custom board like in the recent other hood units.

I'll have to think about the Berkshire.  I had some Life-Like/Walthers versions but sold them.  The shell is wrong for the C&O Kanawha since they switched the locations of the steam dome and sandbox.

To be fair, the original Life-Like Berkshire shell is also wrong for all the NKP road numbers Atlas is offering, although it's close.  Wish they would do correct numbers..   The correct shell for those numbers is the old Rowa/Rivarossi Berkshire.

<edit><corrected, per @jdcolombo >
Looked it up.  The Life-Like Berkshire was a class S1- appropriate numbers are 715-739.   The numbers that Atlas is using are for class S2.    That said - I want them all!
</edit>

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Love to see those C424s.

[Kentuckian]

Is the Berk going to have traction tires?

[basementcalling]

Might be in for an MP15DC or three, or four. Lots of good road offerings on that one.

[R L Smith]

So, selling off my EL stuff last fall to concentrate on the steam-diesel transition era just saved me from buying a pair of C424s.  I can really only justify one 2-8-4.

I do wish they were offering the Berk in an unlettered version though..

[Bruce Archer]

Hi All!
    As a huge fan of the D&H, and their Alcos, at first I was excited. But the D&H, and CP C-424s are wrong. First the D&H 45x series and CP Rail 's C-424s did not have the "Horns" (the first CP 424 did, and the D&H's 46x series did also) on the back end, Atlas did not fix the excessive gap between the model's frame and the trucks, which makes them look odd.  And the D&H's 45xv"  series of locos had an additional blower duct on the engineer's side. For $170 for the "Silver " series and $280+ for the gold series I expected better.

Bruce Archer

[Missaberoad]

Hi All!
    As a huge fan of the D&H, and their Alcos, at first I was excited. But the D&H, and CP C-424s are wrong. First the D&H 45x series and CP Rail 's C-424s did not have the "Horns" (the first CP 424 did, and the D&H's 46x series did also) on the back end, Atlas did not fix the excessive gap between the model's frame and the trucks, which makes them look odd.  And the D&H's 45xv"  series of locos had an additional blower duct on the engineer's side. For $170 for the "Silver " series and $280+ for the gold series I expected better.

Bruce Archer

Note the only CP number is the first one!

[dandopinski]

The ride height on the C424s are correct. Atlas and Life-Like chose not to model the massive underframes that they sat on. I used evergreen channel beams to fix that problem.