2024 NSE National N-Scale Convention: Product Info (announcements, updates?)

[Mark5]

So far, we have the ScaleTrains GP30: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=58043.0

And an update on Npossible couplers: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=54237.165

Anything from Atlas, Kato, others? 

[bnsfdash8]

Kato announcing the Surfliner with appropriate Charger. Picture from a Facebook post.

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[C855B]

... Anything from Atlas, Kato, others? 

Apparently Atlas is showing their SD45: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=55108.msg799449#msg799449

[Blazeman]

Was there yesterday but didn't think about photos of manufacturer's new items.

My bad.

I did intently study the Scale Trains GP30's (including the UP "B") and discussed the dented gon sides with the Bluford rep.  He had just three samples (varying degrees of dents) of the gons.  Told me it was a design struggle to plot the design for the cars as the computer wanted to "straighten out" the sides.  Finally, a recent MIT grad was consulted and he had a drop-in program that could fix that tendency and they were off to the races.   

[vermonter_railfan]

Apparently Atlas is showing their SD45: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=55108.msg799449#msg799449

They are on the water or about to be according to them ETA 4-6 weeks give or take.

[Mark5]

They (SD45s) are on the water or about to be according to them ETA 4-6 weeks give or take.

Yikes, no bell on the hi nose SD45s 

Time to email Atlas (say it aint so!)

Mark

[mu26aeh]

Yikes, no bell on the hi nose SD45s 

Time to email Atlas (say it aint so!)

Mark

Better do it to be safe, might not have them installed just because they are show models or perhaps already knocked off.  Wish I'd have contacted them about YorkRail GP15, they used the wrong orange on them.  Should be more GN empire builder orange (darker)

[High Hood]

Yikes, no bell on the hi nose SD45s 

Time to email Atlas (say it aint so!)

Mark

No bell on the artwork either so I doubt they’ll be adding one.

[learmoia]

The horn placement on the EL is close but not correct..

Also.. do I spy Micro-Trains style Couplers?

[James Costello]

Did MTL have samples of their forthcoming Thrall modern 60' flat car there?

[vermonter_railfan]

The horn placement on the EL is close but not correct..

Also.. do I spy Micro-Trains style Couplers?

Yes you did! Here is a zoomed in screenshot of one of my photos

[vermonter_railfan]

Did MTL have samples of their forthcoming Thrall modern 60' flat car there?

They did, plus an ETA of August 2024..

[James Costello]

They did, plus an ETA of August 2024..

Sweet, thanks for the photos! Hopefully @Gozer the Gozerian has lots of [construction equipment] loads planned for them.

[Mark5]

No bell on the artwork either so I doubt they’ll be adding one.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) - Atlas artwork is famously unreliable about such things.

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I emailed Atlas about the SD45s immediately after seeing the photo. Hopefully they are "pre-production" models and the actual models will have the bells.

[Mark5]

Those MTL flats look hot! 

Mark