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One of my Atlas O - 3-rail - covered hopper car trucks fall apart while running the other night. The die cast metal truck frame broke at two places. I have 10 or so of these cars, and noted that a few others have what I describe as paint line cracks on the trucks - not cracks in the metal that I can see per se, rather just a bare metal line (at the same location where the broken one broke apart). These are what I thought, were very high quality cars. Has this happenedto anyone else's cars?HPIM0319 [2)

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The dreaded 'zinc pest'. Don't bother talking with Atlas. They like to play 'dumb' about it. I've heard that MTH has offered free replacements for some of their products in the past. Spoke to an Atlas service Rep at the Big E show two years ago. Might as well have been talking to a tree stump. Had about ten cars do that from a specific time period around 2010. There are more posts about it if you feel like searching.  

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