New Atlas EJ&E boxcars

Very nice! There has been a dearth of EJ&E stuff out there in O Gauge. These shall help immensely.

I really love Atlas rolling stock, just look at all that crisp detail hanging off those cars!!!

Even the Trainman line is great, just a bit less separate detail but still fine cars.

My only complaint is they should do more southern RRs (like Seaboard Air Line)

Very nice cars.  I just wish they would bring out some in a more modern form.  EJ&E is a very interesting RR and it would be fun to have more stuff.  Same for the Green Bay and Western.

Atlas products are awesome!

Did a quick search on Atlas' Product Search page and this is indeed the second run they have done with these cars (now you can have fun hunting down the first run... ).

They also did a run of EJ&E Steel Re-Built Box Cars (item #6495):

Andy

EJ&E has a lot of great looking cars that need to be produced. Andy I am going to have to try to hunt that car down. I really need some EJ&E cabooses now, an orange one and an old wooden one would be perfect. If they would produce the steel orange cabooses I would probably have to grab 3 or 4 of them.

As for these new boxcars, they will not be at home until someone released a heavy Mikado.

One of the things I love about Atlas as that they usually do 2-4 road numbers in each run (usually 4 in Master Line offerings).  Makes it easy to build up a collection.

They recently did a run of Westmoreland Coal hoppers that thrilled me to no end (WC originated in my home town).  I'm hoping for another run of those as well.

Andy

It would be great if someone would produce one of these.

Scott

     Nice cars. Actually because of all the detail they weather easier than most. the trick is to do it very lightly for each layer or you loose the detail. Check some of SIRT's, he has some lightly done cars.

Ray Marion

Someone did!

Malcolm,

I know where that one is!

That design is also correct for Bessemer & Lake Erie.

Dave

Zett & Andy:     Bet those 1918-era USRA double sheath cars vanished in 1937.......because they became the above pictured "steel rebuilt" cars!

Atlas also made the following EJ&E cars that I have in my collection:

#6495-1, -3 and -4 (probably a -2 also which I don't have) EJ&E 40' Steel Re-Built Boxcars #7621, #7634 & #7679.

#8302-1, -3 and -4 (probably a -2 also which I don't have) EJ&E Double Sheathed Wood Boxcars #7332, #7581 & #7695.

9302-1 & 9302-3 EJ&E Double Sheathed Wood Boxcars 2-Rail (probably a -2 and -4 also which I don't have). Car #7332 & #7581 also.

Haven't received my new EJ&E cars that were just released as yet.

Joe

I like the quad 'lashup' you are pulling them with as well.  What's that all about?  Any pics to share?  Long live 'The J'

Zett

Congratulations on your first Atlas freight cars. They offer dozens of different models.  I would rate all of the Trainman and Masterline freight cars as good to excellent models.

Atlas, Lionel and MTH all make a double sheathed USRA box car.  Atlas and MTH also make USRA single sheathed box cars.  In a head to head comparison I would give the edge to MTH on the double sheathed cars (they are that good!) and call it a toss up on the single sheathed cars.

In addition to the Atlas cars already mentioned both MTH and Weaver have done PS-1 40 boot box cars for the EJ&E.

There is the MTH 2--93086  http://www.mthtrains.com/content/20-93086

and the Weaver U2031

http://www.weavermodels.com/Ul...n%20Photos/u2131.jpg

Zett,

Please, what are the Atlas O part numbers for these EJ&E boxcars? I checked with my local hobby shop this morning, and they never heard of them, nor what catalog they were in. I have searched the Atlas O website, and can find NOTHING about ANY EJ&E boxcars. Don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I would sure like to pick up 1 or 2 of those, especially that old green car, part #6495. 

Are they recent shippers, from a VERY old catalog?

Thanks.

Here is the link.

http://www.atlaso.com/ousradsboxcar6.htm

The above link is correct. I pre-ordered mine from Charles Ro at least 18 months ago. All of the other cars linked above we're past builds so it may be difficult to find them. There's a lot of old stuff I'm looking to track down, such as the ej&e mth coil car, but my bank account took a massive hit with both the atlas boxcars and the mth transfer diesels shipping 1 week apart.

Hopefully Lionel will have the shark nose legacy engines in the new catalog with ej&e paint. Im still really hoping for someone to produce a heavy mikado so I can make my great grandfathers engine. With whistle steam.

Great thread Zett. Thanks for all the pictures and descriptions. I don't really have much at all in the way of Atlas. I will be checking them out for sure. 

Check with Caboose Stop Hobbies in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Merle usually has a big stock of Atlas items.   Joe

EJ&E items seem to be in high demand on the Bay. I have bid a couple of times on the green steel re-built boxcar shown in a photo above, but the final bid has always been way above anything I was willing to pay. I've also seen pretty high prices on the Weaver items, and the MTH coil cars are seldom seen and go for big bucks when they do. 

The Atlas web site is not laid out very well for finding things.  If you click on the "New Products" button on the main page, it will take you to a page with some more useful links, of which, most are in the side bar box on the right side of the page, including the link to their "Product Search" page.  Once there, I just do a search on "Elgin" and it pulls up the three runs they've done:

• The first run of the USRA Double-Sheathed Box Car (#8302 - 4 road numbers) which looks to have been from around 2003.
• The Steel Re-Built Box Car (#6495 - 4 road numbers) which looks to have been from around 2005.
• And the above-pictured 2012 second run of the USRA Double-Sheathed Box Car (#8302 - 4 road numbers).

They did both 2-rail and 3-rail runs of all of these, the 2-rail versions are #9302 and #7495 respectively, and I'm pretty sure the 2-rail cars can be converted to 3-rail, as I've had some Atlas 2-rail cars converted for me in the past by a dealer who really wanted to sell me some cars.   Just did a quick search and there is a 2-rail USRA Double-Sheathed Box Car (#9302) on eBay right now.

I wish Atlas would move the link to their "Product Search" page to their main page, as those of us who are looking for info on older runs don't find it very intuitive to start with "New Products."

Andy