Question for Atlas at York

We are currently working with the factory to make the frames and trucks we will be offering backwards compatible with the Weaver produced items.  Once we have this finalized, we will put out an order form for replacement trucks and frames.

Paul Graf posted:

We are currently working with the factory to make the frames and trucks we will be offering backwards compatible with the Weaver produced items.  Once we have this finalized, we will put out an order form for replacement trucks and frames.

 

Thanks for that information. Any idea when this will happen, roughly?

Thanks Paul,

I spoke with Bill a while back. He said the original Weaver trucks on the troop sleeper may not work on the Atlas replacement frames.  Is there any updates on this issue?

Richard Gonzales 

Hot Water posted:

Paul Graf posted:

We are currently working with the factory to make the frames and trucks we will be offering backwards compatible with the Weaver produced items.  Once we have this finalized, we will put out an order form for replacement trucks and frames.

 

Thanks for that information. Any idea when this will happen, roughly?

We have some guys going over to the factory next week, so hopefully when they get back we will have a better idea.

Richard Gonzales posted:

Thanks Paul,

I spoke with Bill a while back. He said the original Weaver trucks on the troop sleeper may not work on the Atlas replacement frames.  Is there any updates on this issue?

Richard Gonzales 

This is part of the backwards compatible issue we are working on.  Our goal is to make it so that the new parts will work with the Weaver produced cars.

That is good news.

Jan

Thanks for the feed-back, Paul.  

I attempted to straighten the warped frame out of one of my three Weaver express cars, two days ago. I now have a multi-piece die cast under frame, as well as one broken truck frame. The truck frame will be repaired with J-B Weld, but the under frame is history. One of my modeling friends says he will attempt to make a new under frame out of basswood or maybe styrene (he is a master craftsman at scratch building O-Scale cars out of styrene).

I would like to replace the under frames on my other two express cars, before then become un-runable.