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hokie71 posted:

I don't own any older Atlas cars and occasionally one comes up on that auction site -but it appears to have couplers like this.  Do these work with the typical O claw coupler? Thanks for input.

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As mentioned, these do couple well with the o-gauge coupler. I love these cars; the trucks are about a good-looking as 3RO trucks get. The cars are light, but that's why lead (if you don't want a load) was invented. 

The tooling (I think that the cars were made in Austria in the 60's), which included stock cars, boxcars, gondolas and a reefer/plug-door boxcar I believe, has survived and re-appeared as part of the new Atlas Trainman line.

The cars were made by Roco in Austria for Atlas in the 1970s, when Atlas got into the business of selling locomotives and freight cars in N. HO and O scale. Prior to that, Atlas was all about tracks and buildings.

The coupler looks good, but does not have an operating knuckle, so it doesn’t always work so smoothly with traditional O gauge knuckle couplers, especially if weight isn’t added to those very lightweight cars.

Last edited by Jim R.

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