RS-3   RS-3   RS-3   RS-3 ?????????

Lehigh & Hudson River...waiting so long there is now rust on my 3-rail tracks!!!

Walter M. Matuch

Walter, the RS-3's shipped on September 6th.

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SantaFeJim posted:

 

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...They also stated they expected these to be shipping to Atlas this year yet - I will get a more definitive update at York.

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That would be great news.  But also keep in mind that could imply a container shipment leaves China in late December, which means arrival to Atlas-O here in the States during mid- to late-February.  Just saying that's a possible scenario too.  I guess it really depends how soon full-production product typically ships after the importer's receipt of a prototype.  And I don't know that answer.

If I were a betting man, I'd say it'll be 2017 before these are in the hands of consumers.  But we should know more at York.

It's been so long that I've been waiting for these, I forgot if I ordered an F7 or an F3.    

David

Rocky -

I really do not expect to see them "under the tree"   this year.  For that to happen they would probably have to ship today.   However, there is a very good possibility of them arriving by St Patty's Day.   

They will have to go pretty far to be nicer than the F7s from GGD.    And the big starting place would be to get a better single motor drive in my opinion.

Highly unlikely Atlas would stop using the China drives in the foreseeable future ,unless MTH and Lionel would make such a move. The newer Sunset diesels are selling to a much smaller predominately 2 rail market willing to pay a considerably higher price to get what they want, it will be interesting to see how long this trend continues. JMO

Well not to be Debbie Downer here, but we have seen the Atlas O Dash 8s at York several times, with a predicted shipping date. We know exactly what all that means. 

They just like to throw us a bone once in awhile to keep more people from cancelling their orders.

I will feel alot better when the L&HR's Warwick roundhouse marks up the Atlas RS-3s for an Allentown/PA to Maybrook/NY extra on my basement railroad. At the rate delivery gets pushed back, I may be retired (again) by then. 

Walter M. Matuch

Walter Matuch posted:

I will feel alot better when the L&HR's Warwick roundhouse marks up the Atlas RS-3s for an Allentown/PA to Maybrook/NY extra on my basement railroad. At the rate delivery gets pushed back, I may be retired (again) by then. 

Walter M. Matuch

Hope it happens soon.  Until then, you'll just have to settle for this.

It appears you are in luck as the RS3s should deliver to customers in Nov based on the Sept 6 container shipping date and the L&HR is in that run, interesting the Atlas container shipping still lists 8/22/16 as the newest date [www.atlasrr.com/containershipping.htm] although this site and the AtoZ shipping schedule are rarely in sync and motive power production continues to be very erratic, the GE8-40s continue to be an embarrassment for Atlas JMO

Maybe Atlas is pretending they never announced those Dash 8-40C's

They got scooped by MTH on those Dash 8s

They sure did. After I got all four from MTH, I cancelled my Atlas order.

A bit of an Atlas sidetrack question, does Atlas rolling stock delivery stay near or on schedule? I would like to order four of the B&O wagon tops next month. The projected arrival is 2017, 2d quarter. I missed out on the original Weaver wagon tops.

Atlas is the worst offender of bad delivery dates

Actually with the exception of the CZ cars Atlas has been reasonably on schedule with the rolling stock in the last 2 years. JMO

The ATLAS O cars are now arriving in a very timely manner.

The ATLAS O diesel locos are what have been delayed for reworking.

Andrew

hibar posted:

Actually with the exception of the CZ cars Atlas has been reasonably on schedule with the rolling stock in the last 2 years. JMO

falconservice posted:

The ATLAS O cars are now arriving in a very timely manner.

The ATLAS O diesel locos are what have been delayed for reworking.

Andrew

its not too hard to change the numbers and ship out the same stuff over and over again.... usually wit a big price increase to go with it