My LHS called to tell me my order was here. And, that there is a shortage with what was received and he was on the phone with Atlas and they don't have anymore anything at Atlas. Sold out. So they are calling around looking.
Wow, modern stuff does sell well, whodathunk?
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That's because they are out of touch with the market. You can only do some many re-runs of RS3s or Pennsy and NYC....
Yeah, imagine that! Good selling items.
rdunniii posted:... there is a shortage with what was received and he was on the phone with Atlas and they don't have anymore anything at Atlas. Sold out. So they are calling around looking.
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So he's saying Atlas-O short-shipped his order quantity? 
I thought that isn't supposed to happen in what is essentially a BTO manufacturing environment where Atlas-O's Chinese factory builds to the number placed by dealers. In theory, there should be no short-shipping.
Wonder if Atlas-O reps who read this forum would care to comment.
Of course, if the dealer took more consumer orders AFTER submitting his pre-order quantity with Atlas-O and now can't fulfill all his consumer orders, then that's not short-shipping. He just gambled Atlas-O would supply more than he originally ordered, and it appears that's not gonna be the case.
David
Maybe some of them are stuck in Hanjin containers.
Atlas does not always receive full shipments on the first container to arrive, balance of shipments on next container is not uncommon, Hanjin is a Korea based shipping co. just saying!
Please let me know the dealer name and item(s) so we can look into it. We did receive our full order for the Maxi IVs and containers.
hibar posted:Atlas does not always receive full shipments on the first container to arrive, balance of shipments on next container is not uncommon, Hanjin is a Korea based shipping co. just saying!
I only recently became aware that they were Korean. I used to think they were Japanese. Of course neither of those are China. It made for a cute comment under the circumstances. 
This raises an interesting but slightly off topic question. Are containers operated in pool service, or they returned directly to their home line? Railroads figured out the inefficiency of that practice years ago.
That the dealer was shorted was not the point. We can work that out. The only reason I mentioned that at all is it is how I was informed Atlas was sold out. That I might have Pacer cars and no Pacer containers is a bit suboptimal but, the point is that modern stuff sells very well. So please, more newer stuff and less older stuff.
The Pacer thing is a bit more noticeable (and disturbing) because the December announcement has more Pacer cars (relettered) but no more Pacer Containers.
Has anyone posted pictures of these yet?? Would love to see them since I missed out on ordering because of the dreaded budget thing!
would kike to see some up close pics of the Maxi stack cars, thanks in advance.
Video posted on different topics thread https://ogrforum.com/t...i-stack-iv-well-cars
boilermaker posted:Video posted on different topics thread https://ogrforum.com/t...i-stack-iv-well-cars
Nice video was looking for close ups of the cars themselves, am assuming Atlas did there usual good job on containers so detail level of cars are what I am looking for.
Got mine today, 2 rail from factory,
BNSF, Pacer and TTX. All cars and associated containers. All look fabulous and seem to function very well in loading/unloading and tracking through multiple 7.5 turnouts...even backwards. I must try them "bare table" ....but they are too beautiful not to leave loaded for now. Atlas O has a true winner here!
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