April Fools From Atlas

I like it.

LOL...

"And to make sure you don’t get too creative,  the Noble Gas cars will ship without couplers.   Just like the real elements, there is no way to combine these with other  cars!"

Do you really think they will make that shipping date. Will the elements with short half life's have exploding boxcars.  Will the elements that are liquid at room temperature, such as mercury come in tank cars.  Innovative idea.

Douglas

I love it: I want the whole set and the display cabinet. 

Love the noble gas cars shipping with couplers!  clever touch.

I think they would make a great series of cars, they certainly would be different. I'd buy them if the were ever made.

Jerry

I could make a Breaking Bad train!!!

You may be on to something here. How about a "Big Bang Theory" set ?

These cars would fit right in. The show is popular right now.

could not do any worse than the Beatles, Nascar, A Christmas story, Wizard of OZ

Themed sets.

Love the concept. Of course they need to be scaled-up to O Scale. For now, they're just Unobtainium...

Gilly

I can't find Unobtainium on the periodic table. Must be a new element.

We use it to build things at my company all the time. Especially good for saving weight.

I would so get the whole set for my wife.  She's one of smart people that loves learning (She'd do extra homework for fun in elementary school.).  And she has picked N scale for her trains (Trying to get her into the hobby.).  I can totally see her making a sugar train.  Atlas better make sure they have enough of each road number for those long chains of elements.

unobtainium is generally one of the rare earth elements such as terbium,erbium,dysprosium yttrium,neodymium. These elements are used in the electronics industry and green industry.  It is also known as hardtofindum. When alloyed with aluminum it forms wishalloy.  The O-scale car will be transparent with no floor.

Douglas

They need the Br and Ba cars to look like this:

If my memory serves, that would be a 118 car train!

John Knapp

Erie, not Eerie

Ironically, if they actually did this I think I'd buy them, but an appropriately designed display case would be an interesting construction project.

JDaddy: Good Call

They forgot the more mind-numbing elements of the "witium" class:

Nitwitium

Halfwitiium

Dimwitium

Dullwitium

Exposure to these elements causes temporary partial loss of the brains reasoning capabilities. The duration is dependent on the element's half-life and length of exposure. God knows I've been exposed to these periodically.

I always thought K-Line and Chiquita should merge their shipping operations. The combination just seems natural.

(hint: bananas have a lot of potassium)

As Holmes might have said, 'It's elementary, my dear Watson.' 

You could pull the whole string with a fusion powered locomotive.

What if the Atlas cars were made out of the element that was represented?

They apparently forgot rigidium.  It has a Young's modulus above one million.  It is what every structural engineer is looking for.

Is that the one that comes in blue tablet form? 

That would be sort of tough with sodium, bromine, and hydrogen.

That's the element they were fighting over in the movie Avatar.

Nicole, I've got the punch-line for that joke, but if it typed it here I'd have to report my own reply to the site moderators!!!!

Gilly

Wouldn't that be a double stack car?