Atlas O has DT&I and GTW cars in new announcements.

We have these on our web site with pictures https://www.thetrainshop.com/c...tlas-o/rolling-stock

Atlas also announced Coca-Cola VW buses and the Volvo Construction equipment:

https://www.thetrainshop.com/c.../atlas-o/accessories

The DT&I and GTW cars have to be ordered ahead of delivery to make sure they are not cancelled. Atlas O has cancelled some production run in the past year.

Andrew

Wow, your price seems a little high for this Rio Grande Caboose.... or is it 1:1 Scale?

Ouch.  That is a teeny bit expensive.  But if it is 1:1 scale, and still works on O-36 curves (As advertised.), then it might just be worth it. 

Absolutely absurd!  I will not pay more than $68,000 for a caboose! 

The entire run of the 40' Steel Rebuilt Box Cars has been cancelled.

The 70-Ton Hoppers are still going to be made.

Andrew

So does anyone know why the run of 40' ft steel rebuilt were cancelled

I really hope Atlas makes it through these tough times. News like this makes me nervous.

Its all about the reservations on the model that Atlas posts, low response on an announced model will cause a cancellation. This has become standard operating practice for a number of mfgs/importers.Rapido printed an article on this policy last year in MR.

That may be quite well and true hibar. But ever since the last shake up at Sanda Kan when SK dropped something like 65 companies, Atlas has had a very hard delivering anything. From a production standpoint, it is much cheaper and easier to produce a Industrial Rail box car versus a full scale one with all the added details. And yet the last batch of announced Atlas Industrial Rail box cars were suppose to be out last year. And if I remember there is a IR flat car that is even more behind schedule.

I know that after the K-Line meltdown, Sanda Kan changed their policy and started requiring much more money up front for production from the various companies who they were producing for.

Could well be that this is typical now of the other Chinese companies that are vendors for the US train companies. I never read any announcement after the Sanda Kan shake up, that Atlas had found another company to produce their products. They must have found someone, but it is also obvious that Atlas doesn't seem to be high on that vendor's manufacuring schedule.

What ever the exact reason, one thing for certain and that is Atlas is losing sales and thus not generating income over this. And that's too bad for a company that looked like it had such a promising future in the 3-rail arena.

Last year in a letter from the Atlas CEO they announced that they had farmed out their tooling to other mfgs[ I have heard some work is being done by the same mfg doing Athern HO. This never the less does not change the reservation issue, you don't build what consumers are not willing to buy and certain models have apparantly no longer sufficient demand to warrant producing.[33k tankers,3@6 bay cylindrical hoppers and the list is growing] clearly Atlas is investing more cautiously in the O guage market.

Exactly! There is no way I'm going to spend what Atlas wants for the price of their steam era boxcars, tank cars, and covered hopper cars. Even at "discounted" prices, there is no reason to keep increasing prices THAT much for existing tooling, simply for different road names.

I'm out!