Atlas O has announced a rerun of Articulated Thrall autoracks. One car, an ATSF Covered autorack painted White with Blue ATSF logo
on a BLACK flat car has some interesting color combination but I am not sure if IT's a prototype as I can't find a picture of one.
I am vaguely familiar with ATSF's experimental Articulated autorack from Trinity #700600:
Any thoughts?
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The Atlas model is a fantasy version (TTX vs. Trinity/2-unit vs. 3-unit), though the paint scheme is correct. From the photo, it looks like the total length is about the same for both car sets.
The three-unit rack was a prototype. Santa Fe didn't go forward with them. There is one that BNSF used called an "Auto Max" which was made by Gunderson. That one featured adjustable racks so it can handle three rows of cars or SUV's.
I would guess that it's an adaptation of the three unit prototype which would never be feasible to model.
Will Ebbert posted:I would guess that it's an adaptation of the three unit prototype which would never be feasible to model.
Why not? I don't want one, but there are all sorts of gigantic 3RO models around these days.
AGHRMatt posted:The Atlas model is a fantasy version (TTX vs. Trinity/2-unit vs. 3-unit), though the paint scheme is correct. From the photo, it looks like the total length is about the same for both car sets.
The three-unit rack was a prototype. Santa Fe didn't go forward with them. There is one that BNSF used called an "Auto Max" which was made by Gunderson. That one featured adjustable racks so it can handle three rows of cars or SUV's.
I'm sorry Matt J but I am a bit confused when you stated that the paint scheme is correct. On the Trinity three unit articulated the paint scheme includes the Trinity name and logo plus 5 shadow sedans incorporated in the stripes. The other prototype just has the blue atsf logos...
No stripes.
This is as close as we will get in a production model. There are only so many accurate and close-enough schemes for this Articulated automobile carrier.
I plan to order them, because the O scale Thrall Car articulated auto carriers are more rare than I expected. I want to finally get them.
Andrew
D500 posted:Will Ebbert posted:I would guess that it's an adaptation of the three unit prototype which would never be feasible to model.
Why not? I don't want one, but there are all sorts of gigantic 3RO models around these days.
There's really nothing to prevent a three unit articulation from a design sense. Atlas already makes 3 and 5 unit intermodal articulated models.
I like it! Ordered one from the Public Delivery Track !
D500 posted:Will Ebbert posted:I would guess that it's an adaptation of the three unit prototype which would never be feasible to model.
Why not? I don't want one, but there are all sorts of gigantic 3RO models around these days.
Size isn't so much the concern, but rather the cost of developing accurate tooling for something that would only be offered in one paint scheme and one road number (accurately at least). Limited appeal in terms of overall sales numbers. Not saying it wouldn't be cool, but there are tons of far more common models that have yet to be done in o scale (Trinity 64' reefers cough cough).
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