The Atlas Product Spotlight - O 40' Rebuilt Well Car & 53' Rebuilt Well Car
In the 2000s intermodal containers came in a large variety of shapes and sizes. Common containers in that time ranged from 20’, 28’, 40’, 45’, 48’ and 53’. This much variety was deemed inefficient by railroads and trucking companies alike in the early part of this decade. Today the most common containers are 20’, 40’ and 53’. With the phasing out of the once popular 48’ containers, TTX had little need for their 48’ well cars. These cars were still rather new, most built in the mid to late 1990s. So instead of scrapping cars that were in serviceable condition, TTX opted to start a rebuilding program in which the 48’ well cars were shortened to 40’ and/or lengthened to 53’.
Learn all about this model from the Summer 2024 Premier Catalog Live Stream
The guaranteed order deadline is September 4, 2024. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.
40' Rebuilt Well Car Features:
- Die-cast body
- Low friction trucks with rotating bearing caps (2-Rail and 3-Rail)
- Detailed brake rigging
- Etched metal walkways
- Minimum radius:
3-Rail: O-54
2 -Rail: 36”
- Perfect for our 20' & 40' Containers!
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53' Rebuilt Well Car Features:
- Die-cast body
- Low friction trucks with rotating bearing caps (2-Rail and 3-Rail)
- Detailed brake rigging
- Etched metal walkways
- Minimum radius:
3-Rail: O-54
2 -Rail: 36”
- Perfect for our 20' & 40' Containers!
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O 40' Rebuilt Well Car
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Maersk
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3-Rail Item #:
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| 3001696 |
3002696 |
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TTX (Late Repaint)
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3-Rail Item #:
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| 3001697 |
3002697 |
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TTX (TPEX Patch)
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3-Rail Item #:
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2-Rail Item #: |
| 3001698 |
3002698 |
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TTX (Early TTX Logo)
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| 3001699 |
3002699 |
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O 53' Rebuilt Well Car
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Florida East Coast
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3-Rail Item #:
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| 3001762 |
3002762 |
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Pacer Stacktrain
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3-Rail Item #:
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| 3001763 |
3002763 |
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TTX (Next Load Any Road)
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| 3001764 |
3002764 |
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TTX (On Track For A Cure)
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| 3001765 |
3002765 |
The following products are now shipping from Atlas.
For a complete listing of order deadlines and shipping dates, please use the Atlas Production Schedule.
The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Premier Funnel Flow Tank Car
Tank cars are one of the most specialized freight cars on the rails today, with numerous design features and sizes available to handle a wide variety of products. Gases, liquids, slurries, and molten materials are all routinely transported in tank cars, with most being in dedicated commodity service to prevent contamination, or to take advantage of specific car designs.
The Funnel Flow concept – where the middle of the car is lower than the ends – was invented in 1967 by Union Tank Car Company. This distinctive “bent” design is used for products that are unloaded by gravity, and the shape works to funnel the material to the outlet at the lowest point of the car, which results in a faster and more complete unloading process than a standard straight-bottomed tank. This is especially helpful in unloading slurries (kaolin clay, carbonates, etc.) and thick materials such as asphalt or molten sulfur. Other common loads include foodstuffs such as oils, syrups, and molasses, and various chemical products and solvents.
This new Atlas O Model features a bevy of beautiful paint schemes--including four popular beer brands that are officially licenesed from Pabst!
Learn all about this model from the Summer 2024 Premier Catalog Live Stream
The guaranteed order deadline is September 4, 2024. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.
Features Include:
- Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Body
- Prototypical Paint Schemes
- Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
- Fast-Angle Metal Wheel Sets with Needle-Point Axles
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- O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
- Separate Metal Handrails and Details
- 1:48 Scale Dimensions
- Unit Measures: 11” x 2 5/8” x 4”
- Operates On O-27 Curves
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The Atlas Product Spotlight - O GP38-2 Locomotive
Produced from 1972 to 1986, the GP38-2 helped inaugurate Electro-Motive’s “Dash-2” series of locomotives and became one of EMD’s all-time best sellers. With over 2200 engines sold throughout North America, rare was the railroad that did not roster these reliable, second-generation EMD workhorses.
Building on the success of the GP38 introduced in 1966, the Dash-2 model looked almost identical on the outside but incorporated a host of internal upgrades that lowered exhaust emissions and improved reliability, ease of maintenance, and tractive effort. Most significant was the replacement of the maze of hard-wired circuits, switches, interlocks, and relays — which had characterized first-generation diesels and had been the source of many of their service issues — with modular, solid-state electronics. Other improvements toughened the pistons, rings, and bearings of the 2000-horsepower, non-turbocharged model 645 prime mover.
The result was an engine so hard working and dependable that it became as common on American railroads as the F-unit was in the 1950s and ‘60s. Trains magazine recognized this in 1982 by designating B&O GP38 (a pre-Dash-2 model) as the All American Diesel; the engine resides today in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, repainted in its 1982 Chessie System colors.
Many GP38-2s have soldiered on for more than three decades and remain in service today on short lines and regional railroads.
Learn all about this model from the Summer 2024 Premier Catalog Live Stream
The guaranteed order deadline is September 4, 2024. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.
Features Include:
- Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Body
- Die-Cast Truck Sides, Pilots and Fuel Tank
- Metal Chassis
- Metal Handrails and Horn
- Moveable Roof Fans
- Metal Body Side Grilles
- Detachable Snow Plow
- Handpainted Engineer Cab Figures
- Authentic Paint Scheme
- Metal Wheels, Axles and Gears
- Remote-Controlled Proto-Couplers
- O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
- Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
- Directionally Controlled Constant Voltage LED Headlights
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- Lighted LED Cab Interior Light
- Illuminated LED Number Boards
- Lighted LED Marker Lights
- (2) Precision Flywheel-Equipped Motors
- Operating ProtoSmoke Diesel Exhaust
- Playable Horn Sounds
- Onboard DCC/DCS Decoder
- Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
- Proto-Scale 3-2 3-Rail/2-Rail Conversion Capable
- 1:48 Scale Proportions
- Proto-Sound 3.0 w/ The Digital Command System featuring Freight Yard Proto-Effects
- Unit Measures: 15 1/2” x 2 3/4” x 4”
- Operates On O-31 Curves
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The Atlas Product Spotlight - O C44-9W Locomotives
For the first six decades of the diesel era, the main goal of locomotive design was higher horsepower. Introduced in 1993, GE’s 4400 hp Dash 9 and its AC-motored sibling, the AC4400CW, were three times as powerful as a typical first-generation diesel and had 10% more horsepower than their immediate predecessor, the Dash 8. A couple years later, GE and then EMD introduced 6000 hp engines, the first single-unit diesels to equal the power of the last and best steamers.
But what was thought to be a breakthrough turned out to be a flop. By the late 1990s, North American railroads had rejected the 6000 hp concept and concluded that the 4300-4400 hp diesel was the Goldilocks locomotive — not too big, not too small, but a versatile, just-right building block for multiple-unit lashups. The horsepower race was over.
The Dash 9, accordingly, turned out to be a best-seller. More than 3600 engines were sold by the end of production in 2004, and most are still hauling freight today. The Dash 9 was the last and best of GE’s third-generation diesels; it exemplified the modern locomotive at the turn of the 20th century, with microprocessors ensuring that its 4400 horses were working as efficiently and as often as possible. It rode on GE’s brand-new HiAdTM trucks (for high adhesion), with computerized wheelslip control. Also new was a split cooling system that reduced temperatures and prolonged engine life. The Dash 9’s wide-nosed North American cab, an option on earlier diesels, was standard equipment, solidifying the new look in road diesels. The Dash 9 was also the first GE diesel not offered with four-wheel trucks, recognizing that 6-axle, 4400 hp freight power was the new normal.
Learn all about this model from the Summer 2024 Premier Catalog Live Stream
The guaranteed order deadline is September 4, 2024. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.
Features Include:
- Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Body
- Die-Cast Truck Sides, Pilots and Fuel Tank
- Metal Chassis
- Metal Handrails and Horn
- Moveable Roof Fans
- Metal Body Side Grilles
- Detachable Snow Plow
- (2) Handpainted Engineer Cab Figures
- Authentic Paint Scheme
- Metal Wheels, Axles and Gears
- (2) Remote-Controlled Proto-Couplers
- O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
- Prototypical Rule 17 Lighting
- Directionally Controlled Constant Voltage LED Headlights
- Lighted LED Cab Interior Light
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- Illuminated LED Number Boards
- Operating LED Ditch Lights
- (2) Precision Flywheel-Equipped Motors
- Operating ProtoSmoke Diesel Exhaust
- Onboard DCC/DCS Decoder
- Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments
- Proto-Scale 3-2 3-Rail/2-Rail Conversion Capable
- 1:48 Scale Proportions
- Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring Freight Yard Proto-Effects
- Unit Measures: 18 3/4” x 2 3/4” x 3 7/8”
- Operates On O-42 Curves
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