Atlas Code 65 - new color

[Ngineer]

Hello,

has anybody seen the new Atlas Code 65 color? Can somebody please post a picture that compares the color tan vs gray? Any thoughts on the more prototypical color?

   Javier

[dangerboy81]

Can you post a link? Do you mean Atlas code 55?

[Rivet Miscounter]

They had it on display at the NTS.   It definitely looked better, IMHO.  It’s a darker gray tone than most would like probably, but better than the sand dune motif currently in play.

I think I have a pic somewhere I’ll see what I can find.

[Point353]

Can you post a link? Do you mean Atlas code 55?

https://shop.atlasrr.com/c-1044-n-true-track.aspx

[dangerboy81]

https://shop.atlasrr.com/c-1044-n-true-track.aspx

OK thanks. I forgot about this stuff. I thought Atlas had changed the colour of their flex track.

[Rivet Miscounter]

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[MK]

Hmmm...Unitrack look alike.  How are the connectors?

[Doug G.]

It looks a lot better than Unitrack,

Doug

[u18b]

Hmmm...Unitrack look alike.  How are the connectors?

Actually, Kato Unitrack is code 80    ?? hi rail   higher rail.

Atlas True-Track is code 65 and looks a lot better.

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[Ed Kapuscinski]

Actually, Kato Unitrack is code 80 hi rail.

Atlas True-Track is code 65 and looks a lot better.

Have you measured Unitrack? When I did, it actually came out to be about Code 70. I might've been measuring wrong, but it's what I had seen.

[timwatson]

Have you measured Unitrack? When I did, it actually came out to be about Code 70. I might've been measuring wrong, but it's what I had seen.

That's what I was going to say as well. Unitrack measures out to Code 70 rail.

[Rivet Miscounter]

The biggest benefit over Unitrack is the tie spacing....looks much better.

Connectors are nothing to write home about, and in my very early experience with the Atlas stuff, it's not very durable.   Rails kept popping out when trying to disconnect the pieces.   That was enough to steer me the other way.   Granted this was....12? years ago.  Hopefully they've improved their quality some.

[Dave V]

Fundamentally, it's not a challenge to Unitrack until the variety of available pieces increases severalfold.

[Mark5]

Have you measured Unitrack? When I did, it actually came out to be about Code 70. I might've been measuring wrong, but it's what I had seen.

I am skeptical, but my track is all packed up now. I seem to recall that the rail matched up well with Atlas Code 80.

https://katousa.com/code-or-rail-height-of-kato-unitrack/

[u18b]

I stand corrected.

Rail height
Atlas code 80  =  2.01 mm
Kato  code ??  =  1.84 mm


Thanks.

(I just know I got ripped for displaying a brass EP-2 on Unitrack.... 
It left scars.  I'm still recovering.     )