Atlas Ideas?

Since they have already made the 89' Intermodal Flat, Twin Stack and Maxi IV. I would like to see them make a 5 unit articulated 53' Spine car. They already make 45' trailers but 53' trailers in Schneider, Swift and JB Hunt, CSX would be nice also. Also a Refrigerated trailer in the BNSF Icicle scheme and maybe the shorter trailers in UPS and FedEx schemes for some variety.

An FL-9 that we can afford,with the proper horn...... 

SD50, SD60/60M/60I

A Canadian Club Whisky reefer would be great.

Atlas O Master/Steam era classics are wonderful.  They make great boxcars, great tank cars, and great RS-1s.  So maybe it wouldn't be too difficult to deliver existing models repainted O scale offerings of:

UP Express Box Car ( in 4 different road numbers)

UP Tank Car or UP Fish Oil tank car ( in 4 different road numbers)

Illinois Terminal RS-1 (Early Black) #751

But why would they want anymore of my money?

My wish would be a NH I-5 with dcs

Atlas is really in no position to be offering anything new, especially locomotives, until they start delivering on products that are literally years behind schedule. According to their website, a lot of locomotives are supposed to be delivered before the end of the year, Master Line F3's, F7's, GP7's MP15DC's, Dash 8-40B's and BW's, SW's not to mention Trainman Dash 8-40CW's, RS3's and RSD7-15's.

That's 10 engines by my count and I don't think even the most optimistic of Atlas supporters believe that half of those models will be delivered in 2016.

If Atlas ever catches up and does new molds, I would like to see Trailer Train Class F85C flatcars with bolsters or pedestals that carried containers or other bulk freight in multi-purpose service. 

WE NEED COMBO DOOR CARS...................

Grand Trunk Western 40' double-door box car.  From the DW&P.

Fallen Flags photo.

Andrew

Grand Trunk Western and Illinois Central PS-1 modernized 50' box cars built in the late 1960's.

Andrew

SDL39 or nothin'!

Dick

They have to get to production of the Pullman-Standard PS-4750 3-bay covered hoppers for railroads like Grand Trunk Western, Penn Central, The Milwaukee Road, 1970's Burlington Northern, Seaboard System, other L&N/SCL Family Lines System schemes, B&O Chessie System, ILLINOIS CENTRAL 1972, and the many leased company names.

Andrew

I just wish Atlas would get the products they have announced to market.

Richard

CF7..any version..all versions. I would take two in a heart beat

SD40-2. I would take four right off the bat. It's absolutely my favorite diesel besides the GP30. And why we only have the atrocious MTH model amazes me.

With fixed pilots would be awesome. But not required. But at this point I would like to see the MP15DC land on our shores. I want two.

Atlas Model RR. Co. makes the Kaolin Tank Cars in N and HO scales. Atlas O could make the Kaolin Tank Cars in O scale, since they already have all the plans and models.

Andrew

I have to agree with some other posts in that Atlas-O needs to catch up on either products that they have produced for a number of years or deliver on those products that they advertised to produce.  I love their product. Attention to details and good quality. But finding it can be difficult. I hope they remain in the market.

 They made these in HO. ALCO HH 600. I model the B&A. Surely there are more attractive schemes than theirs that would sell and justify doing them. This was the only diesel ever on their roster and being produced in the late 30's they were around in the hey day of steam. Nice option for a small switcher.

I'd love to see them make an SW switcher. Lots of railroads had them, and they are a perfect steam to diesel transition item. Of course, I want this SW switcher:

Dave_C posted:

 They made these in HO. ALCO HH 600. I model the B&A. Surely there are more attractive schemes than theirs that would sell and justify doing them. This was the only diesel ever on their roster and being produced in the late 30's they were around in the hey day of steam. Nice option for a small switcher.

 

 

 

I'm with you on your suggestion for that locomotive, along with an HH660 variant.

Usually, it helps if a manufacturer has already produced a locomotive in another scale. It significantly eases the design process. But Atlas doesn't consistently do so  in O, HO and N scale. I wish I knew how any of these manufacturers decide what models to produce.

At any rate, I'd buy a Milwaukee Road version of the HH660 if Atlas made it for O.

I would like to see :

ALCo C636

ALCo C415

FM H-20-44

EMD FP7's

EMD SD60- ALL Variants [ Tri clops, Standard Cab, Whisper Cab]

EMD Nw-2

EMD Sw-1

Greenbreir Maxi Stack 3's 5 unit sets

Thrall 40' 5 unit sets

40' Trailers

1970-1980's Tractors to go with trailers [kennys, Petties, MAcks, Freightshakers, etc.]

Open Auto racks

Shorty 8k modern "beer can" tank cars

Bachmann has the K-Line Thrall Car 40' Well Cars that can be made as 5 unit sets. If everybody who likes them would ask Bachmann to make them all within the same two months, then we might see some action. They just need the correct trucks and spare detail parts, in the plastic detail parts break. Please, somebody besides just me ask Bachmann to bring back and correct the Thrall Car 40' Well Cars and sell them with the correct trucks and couplers for 3-Rail and 2-Rail operation.

Thank you.

Andrew

I'd like to see Atlas do a Wheeling & Lake Erie steel triple hopper by FreightCar America. They would compliment the upcoming W&LE SD40's very well. The MTH version of this is pathetic.

Also, since Atlas makes a Trinity 5161 cu. ft. grain hopper maybe they could do the smaller 3281 cu. ft. version for sand/cement service. I don't think this hopper has been done in O scale yet.

If Atlas could purchase the "Dead Weight" of all the intermodal tooling and molds from Kader-Bachmann, then they could take a few months making some revisions and get these intermodal cars into production quicker than creating all new intermodal tooling and molds.

Andrew

An N&W 3-bay rib-side hopper, steam era

The Burlington Northern Hub Cities 45' Pines Trailers were only produced once with just one trailer number.

They must produce new BN trailer numbers. There were 10 trailers for each of the hub cities.

They have 9 more trailer numbers for the BN hub cities trailers to produce before all the numbers are made.

Atlas has not made an O Scale 48' container yet. They have to make 48' containers based on all the types and all of the graphics applied to the Burlington Northern BNAU containers.

Andrew

ALCo C636  Yes, SP&S please!

C39-8. The low-cab "humpback"; CR, NS, CSX, LMX, others?, had them

Totally serious-looking loco; far more powerful-looking than it's successors.

I don't buy diesels much, and I don't buy Atlas much, but I'd buy this.

I believe that the NS had both long-hood-forward and short-hood-forward (ex CR?) versions. 

new 33K tank cars!

Alco Century 430, including Green Bay & Western #315