Atlas O announced today they are offering the Hillside Structure Kits based on the tooling they acquired from Walthers....
Three buildings were announced:
Each are offered at $59.95
These are great buildings and the Dairy is particularly well suited for kit-bashing.
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This is awesome news!!! I've been looking for the dairy building for a long time!
thank you for the post
good information
NEED that dairy building........
I have built all three of those buildings when they were Walthers kits. They are very nice and it is good to see that they are available again so others may have them.
Dennis
Seems as if we went from not very many O gauge buildings and kits to many quality buildups and kits from various manufacturers! Love it!
Definitely more buildings for the time challenged....ones that are not sticks, glue, and hours from completion and setting in place on the layout.
play trains posted:Seems as if we went from not very many O gauge buildings and kits to many quality buildups and kits from various manufacturers! Love it!
I agree we have more choice today for structures.....not yet 10% of what HO has but better than it has been.
I'd like more kits like DPM modular kits. A Art Deco style system could be great.
I have a couple of the "dairy buildings" that were marketed as seed and feed buildings I recall. They have interesting lines and they are very easy to build. I might bite on the rural passenger station.
Sur Sweet Feeds.
It's good to see those back finally. There was a kit-bash project where you used four of the Sure Sweet Feeds building to make a large packing house. Finding four of those on eBay at a reasonable price was impossible. The Golden Valley Depot is a nicely sized building. It would be nice to see the Fairfield Depot kit make a comeback as well.
Good job Atlas.
Hurray for kits! I love building the atlas kits. They're not hard to put together and a little paint work makes them into great buildings
Those are great kits....I figured that they would be back sooner or later....
Peter
Hello Mr. Muffins.
I am looking for a MTH railking Santa Fe blue caboose # 30-77129, it was made in 2007.
thank you, have nice day smile.
Tiffany
This is really good news for those who prefer kits over build-ups. I hope Atlas continues to release these Cornerstone buildings as kits. What would really be great would be if Atlas would add in the extra detail parts like Walthers did with the Java Hut and the Toy Shoppe. Each kit contained extra windows, doors, and a storefront.
I saw that dairy building at York back in October of last year, the Walthers version. It was in the Orange Hall at the guy's booth who sales building kits that are built up and super detailed. - $100. I almost bought it, one of those "on the way out the door and headed home purchases." My fiend talked me out of it, noting I has spent enough money.
I think I will have to get this kit. I think I can detail the kit and make it look even better than the one I saw at York.
Richard
So, are these actually available now?
...good to see the return to availability of 3 more great O scale kits!!
...I had hoped that the Water Tower would be among this round of releases. (sigh)
I know, I know........MORE patience....
KD
I am glad to see Atlas finally release them, Now If they would ship their Lehigh & Hudson River RS-3. I've been waiting over 5 years.
They claim it will ship in the 2nd quarter 2016, but every time the ship date approaches they push it back 6 months. I have not purchased a new locomotive from them in the last 5 years.
Steve,
What is the pricing?
Kevin
Rattler 21 - If you still have one of the kits available I would be interested.
Thank you
Matt,
Do you have a link to the packing plant? Would be keen to see this layout/configuration.
thx
BradA posted:Matt,
Do you have a link to the packing plant? Would be keen to see this layout/configuration.
thx
I can't remember which magazine I saw it in. I'll see if I can find it.
Ditto on packing plant.....with four of these kits needed for it, Menards probably won't gin one out.....I would think a believable one would eat some real estate.
Have these been released?
These Walthers kits had an interesting tab/lock design. The kits could be assembled completely without glue. Idea was based on seasonal display, that could be removed, dismantled, boxed, and stored. I don't know whether the Atlas models are exactly the same.
Crazy Ken's car town.
I once built a speed shop and called it Hot Rod Harry because when I had full size rods that's what my friends called me.
The building/workshop was a chopped up service station from Walthers from this series.
Sorry I can only find this photo at the moment.
Great kits I liked em. Now I scratch build my structures just as expensive, sometimes costs more than kits, can't win with O scale but to me it's the only scale I would never change.
Hope you enjoyed my little break from the layout.
I'm going to bed now to get some beauty sleep. Goodnight.
Roo
Well I now know where my next few hundred dollars will be spent
Maybe the Single and Double Track Truss Bridge Kits are on their way as well. 
Both 3 and 2 rail versions of course.
Chief Bob (Retired) 
Roo posted:I built Stilgoe Printing out of two Dairy's.
I also built (no photo) a nice freight house out of two feed and supplies.
You buy enough of those kits you can build anything, anyone can do it, have a go.
Roo
That would make a good bottling plant
I fell asleep on replying here....
Buy three or more kits in any combination and I will refund your shipping.
Thank you......
Bob D.
"That would make a good bottling plant"
I called it a Printing works because I named it after a good friend and fellow O scaler who among his many talents has also authored some books!
Roo
Here is the other side of Stilgoe Printing.
This also has many details added and the paved track you just see ther gets a boxcar now and again with paper.
Great kits imagine what you could do with half a dozen.
Mr Muffin I want a commission please, in Australian dollars. OK that was a joke I'm laughing.
Roo.
These kits will be on my fall / winter list of projects, for flat structures.
Roo has a lot of cool ideas....... Thank-you Roo for sharing your ideas.
Gary
Thanks Gary.
I found some photos of Hot Rod Harry's and a photo of one of my Rods from the past, sorry for that it will probably get censored out and my two minutes of fame gone! Grin..
Shows how easy you can bash these kits the roof lifts off to show a detailed interior not in these photos I have other photos but don't know where and the model is now packed away in a box, on a base again don't know where my filing system is hopeless!
You can do it.
Roo.
Just curious - Is the 6915 Riverton station based on a specific RR station ???
Thanks
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