Atlas O Trainman U23B's - Just a few left at MrMuffin'sTrains.....

I wish I could find someone wanting to part with their Conrail unit.

Steve,

Is there any update on the shipping of the Chicago and Northwestern O Trainman 60 ft. passenger and observation cars?

Had hoped to have these before Christmas.

Thanks,

Chic Thoms

burlwest posted:

Steve,

Is there any update on the shipping of the Chicago and Northwestern O Trainman 60 ft. passenger and observation cars?

Had hoped to have these before Christmas.

Thanks,

Chic Thoms

No Chic, I will call and ask on Monday. I know Atlas received containers of track last week and they were busy sorting that stuff to ship. 

 Atlas has been saying they'll show up this month for the past five years.  Are you truly confident that they actually will?  Five years! 

Steve yes they are showing up if you look on atlas site they shipped nov 22 but atlas has not got them yet.  

Container shipping usually takes between 4-6 weeks to arrive at Atlas in NJ so these should be available right around the beginning of the New Year.

The container shipped on November 22nd, 2015.

The earliest they can get the container to New Jersey is December 22nd, 2015.  

Since so many other items are in this container or batch of containers it would take one or two weeks to distribute all of the locomotives and cars in all scales.

Andrew

The U23b's are at Atlas - we're just waiting for them to arrive here....

burlwest posted:

Steve,

Is there any update on the shipping of the Chicago and Northwestern O Trainman 60 ft. passenger and observation cars?

Had hoped to have these before Christmas.

Thanks,

Chic Thoms

We are hoping these ship from China before the factory closes for Chinese New Year.  We have been receiving samples, so they are in production.

So the U23B's are at Atlas. So maybe in a week or two they will be sent out after they arrive at your store. 

Maybe I will have my new layout started when it arrives.

Lee Fritz

That's great! This means my Trainman Baltimore & Ohio PS-2 hoppers should be shipping to dealers soon.

I saw an Atlas U boat in Bicentennial colors a couple of years ago which I really liked, do you have any available?

Seacoast posted:

I saw an Atlas U boat in Bicentennial colors a couple of years ago which I really liked, do you have any available?

No, George, I don't.....

Steve have you heard anymore when you are going to get the U23B's in. I was hoping last week and hoping this week. Thanks Jeff!!  

Nope - I asked again on Thursday and they hadn't shipped yet.... I plan to ask daily....

Ok Thanks Steve!

The west coast hobby shops got there's shipped today. Ours go out tomorrow. 

If you're interested in a two rail version, there are some available and with a fixed pilot. Let me know so I can grab you one. 

Steve....... 

They are here! 

Love them!

Thanks,

Mario

Great can't wait to get mine!  

Didn't you report a shipment of these in Dec ? was this a split shipment?

Just got an email with a shipping number in it, says it is shipping. So I guess my U23B is on the way to southeast Florida, and will arrive before the main part of my layout is set up.

Lee Fritz

hibar posted:

Didn't you report a shipment of these in Dec ? was this a split shipment?

Atlas received them at the end of December but delayed shipping them to dealers until last week. Our pallet arrived yesterday. 

I got email with Fedex tracking says my Chessie U23B engine will be here tomorrow. I am surprized be here that quick. 

Thanks for the comments and the orders. I still have a few extras of these in stock. 

• Both numbers C&O
• Both numbers PC
• Both numbers Chessie
• Both numbers Reading and Northern
• One WP - #2258

Just got my U23B from Fed-Ex. Question about using the electrocouplers in non TMCC, I don't have a remote uncoupling track available, so how do I use the uncoupling feature?

Lee Fritz

Lee you can't if you don't have cab1L or cab2 or cab1.

Your welcome Steve!

chessie1971 posted:

Lee you can't if you don't have cab1L or cab2 or cab1.

I don't have anything like Cab 1 or Cab 2.

Will DCS 4.2 work with it?

Lee Fritz

Also just put the battery(I checked the voltage first) in this morning since I am not using TMCC, according to the instructions it mentions to install the battery. I had to move some of the wires out of the way to install the battery and remove the silver bracket and re-install it to get some wires out of the way along with cutting the tie-wrap and installing a new tie-wrap.

One small question abut the mounting screws that came in the packaging, do I need to install these again or not? They hold the black plastic shipping box in place.

Lee Fritz

Lee you can if you have TMCC base or legacy base hooked to the MTH TIU. It tells you in the manual you have to use uncoupler track uncouple from the train car no way to open coupler on engine without cab1 and tmcc base etc. and also found something out too the smoke unit turns itself off if runs out of smoke fluid then you add smoke fluid then comes back on and too not sure i think when engines sits idle the smoke turns off to after so long too. Also you don't have to use the screws but won't stay in place very good i put only two back in mine and one screw work fine as well.    

Also guys take note you can't turn the smoke unit off and on with Lionel Cab1L or Cab2 on the U23B but you can boost smoke unit with 9 key so if you want turn smoke unit off you have turn switch off underneath of front truck.  

Chessie, I don't have the TMCC or legacy unit.

You say I need to install at least 1 screw back into the bottom of the engine where the shipping screws were? Correct?

Lee Fritz

No you don't have to if your not going to put your engine back in the box that just holds the black plastic plate on bottom of engine. 

phillyreading posted:

Chessie, I don't have the TMCC or legacy unit.

You say I need to install at least 1 screw back into the bottom of the engine where the shipping screws were? Correct?

Lee Fritz

Lee - I usually don't bother putting the screws back in on mine.... I leave them in the box.....

Thanks guys, I just wanted to be sure as it looked like I could leave those screws out. 

Also I got a temporary track set up this morning and tested a couple of engines, using 042 tubular track. If I like it I may make it the start of my layout as I laid down a sheet of Life-Like mat.

Lee Fritz

Your welcome!

chessie1971 posted:

Also guys take note you can't turn the smoke unit off and on with Lionel Cab1L or Cab2 on the U23B but you can boost smoke unit with 9 key so if you want turn smoke unit off you have turn switch off underneath of front truck.  

Chessie, you can't turn the smoke unit off with the remote on a modern-day command-equipped locomotive?  Really?  Something just doesn't sound right about that!

I wonder if this was just a design/engineering oversight, or a really poor intentional decision by the folks at Atlas?  And I'm also wondering if the Trainman RS3 I have on pre-order will be built the same way?

Thanks for the heads up...and enjoy your new engine!  Will you be posting any pics or videos?

Joey what it tells me in the owners manual and what design/engineering oversight