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The Atlas Product Spotlight - HO & N Ford® Fairmont Station Wagons

The Atlas Product Spotlight - HO & N Ford® Fairmont Station Wagons

Hop on in and get ready to take a ride with a new run of the HO & N Scale Ford® Fairmont Station Wagons. These models are back by popular demand and feature several brand new paint schemes as well as the prototypical details you have come to expect from an Atlas model.

The guaranteed order deadline is August 2, 2023. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.

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DARK JADE METALLIC
N Item #:
HO Item #:
60 000 011 30 000 011
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MEDIUM CHESTNUT METALLIC
N Item #:
HO Item #:
60 000 012 30 000 012
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BLACK
N Item #:
HO Item #:
60 000 037 30 000 036
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LIGHT CHAMOIS
N Item #:
HO Item #:
60 000 039 30 000 038
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MEDIUM BLUE
N Item #:
HO Item #:
60 000 040 30 000 039
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SILVER METALLIC
N Item #:
HO Item #:
60 000 162 30 000 150
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DARK CORDOVAN METALLIC
N Item #:
HO Item #:
60 000 163 30 000 151

The Atlas Product Spotlight - HO & N Trainman® 40' Plug Door Box Cars

The Atlas Product Spotlight - HO & N Trainman® 40' Plug Door Box Cars

The Atlas HO & N Trainman® 40' Plug Door Box Cars are back to quench your thirst for rolling stock. This new run features a bevy of beautiful paint schemes based on some popular beer brands from over the years.

The guaranteed order deadline is August 2, 2023. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.

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FALSTAFF
N Item #:
HO Item #:
50 006 484
50 006 485
50 006 486
20 007 238
20 007 239
20 007 240
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LUCKY LAGER
N Item #:
HO Item #:

50 006 487
50 006 488
50 006 489

20 007 241
20 007 242
20 007 243
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OLD MILWAUKEE LIGHT
N Item #:
HO Item #:
50 006 490
50 006 491
50 006 492
20 007 244
20 007 245
20 007 246
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PABST BLUE RIBBON
N Item #:
HO Item #:
50 006 493
50 006 494
50 006 495
20 007 247
20 007 248
20 007 249
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PEARL LAGER
N Item #:
HO Item #:
50 006 496
50 006 497
50 006 498
20 007 250
20 007 251
20 007 252
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STROH'S
N Item #:
HO Item #:
50 006 499
50 006 500
50 006 501
20 007 253
20 007 254
20 007 255

Atlas O Scale Multi-Max Production Change

The Atlas O Multi-Max represents one of our most ambitious and challenging O scale rolling stock models to date. Due to the difficulties that Atlas encountered during the design of the high quality end door details, Atlas found it necessary to have the doors glued shut. This was not an easy decision, but multiple engineers and test shipments all indicated that to maintain the integrity of this model, without shipping or handling damage, secured doors were our best option. To prevent damage, please do not attempt to open them. Thank you for your understanding and support. 

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The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Trainman® 50' 6" Box Cars

The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Trainman® 50' 6" Box Cars

In 1974, ACF® built the first box car for Railbox, a subsidiary of the Trailer Train Company. They went on to produce 5,400 50’ cars over the next six years, receiving large orders from Class I railroads, shortlines and box car leasing companies. This ATLAS O TRAINMAN® box car is a stunning replica, designed to enhance your layout and provide many hours of reliable operation.

  • Prototypical non-terminating corrugated ends
  • Diagonal paneled roof
  • Single 10' YSD design sliding door
  • Weighted, detailed underframes
  • Separately-applied end ladders, brake wheels and end platforms
  • True scale dimensions with accurate details
  • Die-cast roller bearing trucks with rotating bearing caps
  • Die-cast couplers
  • Accurate painting and lettering
  • 2-Rail cars feature scale wheels and body mounted scale couplers
  • 3-Rail trucks pre-drilled for Adjust-A-Coupler® systems (sold separately)
  • Minimum diameter curve: O-31 (3-Rail)
  • Minimum radius curve: 24" (2-Rail)

The guaranteed order deadline is June 7, 2023. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.

3-RAIL MSRP: $62.95 2-RAIL MSRP: $65.95

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GUILFORD (MAINE CENTRAL)
3-Rail Item #:
2-Rail Item #:
2001135 2001185
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ROCK ISLAND
3-Rail Item #:
2-Rail Item #:
2001136 2001186
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WARWICK RAILROAD (GATX)
3-Rail Item #:
2-Rail Item #:
2001137 2001187
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UNION PACIFIC (BKTY)
3-Rail Item #:
2-Rail Item #:
2001138 2001188
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RAILBOX (LARGE LOGO)
3-Rail Item #:
2-Rail Item #:
2001139 2001189
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SANTA FE
3-Rail Item #:
2-Rail Item #:
2001140 2001190

The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Premier Streamlined Passenger Cars and Matching Locomotives

The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Premier Streamlined Passenger Cars and Matching Locomotives

New Jersey commuter service went through a number of phases – from being covered by such railroads as the Erie Lackawanna and Jersey Central to the current operations of New Jersey Transit.  This “transition era” saw a collection of differently painted motive power, including the striking blue, silver and red “Bluebird” E8s in this run, pulling several different styles of coaches (including ex-ATSF Budd cars) in much plainer paint schemes.  However, the unique ex-NYC tavern-lounge car (represented in this run by a single car add-on diner) introduced many of the graphical elements that came to define and refine the NJT image in later years.

The guaranteed order deadline for the O Streamlined Passenger Cars is June 7, 2023. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.

Features Include:

  • Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Bodies
  • Stamped Metal Floors
  • Detailed Car Undercarriage
  • Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
  • Metal Wheels and Axles
  • Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  • Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  • Needle-Point Axles
  • (2) Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
  • O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
  • Constant Voltage Overhead LED Interior Lighting
  • End-of-Car Diaphragms
  • Separate Metal Handrails
  • Detailed Car Interiors
  • Sliding Baggage Car Doors
  • Detailed Brake Wheel
  • 1:48 Scale Proportions
  • Unit Measures: 19” x 2 7/16” x 3 1/2”
  • Operates On O-42 Curves

4-PACK MSRP: $479.80 2-PACK MSRP: $239.90 SINGLE CAR MSRP: $119.95
E8 Locomotive MSRP 3-RAIL: $599.95
Unpowered MSRP: $279.95

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NJ COMMUTER TRANSITION SCHEME
3-Rail Item #:
30138233
30138234
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NJ COMMUTER TRANSITION SCHEME
70' STREAMLINE DINER
3-Rail Item #:
3001482
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NJ COMMUTER TRANSITION SCHEME:
70' STREAMLINE COACH 2-PACK
3-Rail Item #:
3001481
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NJ COMMUTER TRANSITION SCHEME: 70' STREAMLINE COACH 4-PACK
3-Rail Item #:
3001480

The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Premier Streamlined Passenger Cars and Matching Locomotive

The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Premier Penn Central and KCS Streamlined Passenger Cars and Matching Locomotive

In commuter service, E8s, either singly or in tandem, pulled strings of (mostly) coaches between cities and suburban areas.  During the early days of Penn Central, these commuter trains took on a very unique look, as cars from the PRR, New York Central, New Haven and other roads frequently were put into service with minimal changes to their original paint schemes other than the occasional addition of some Penn Central lettering or logos.  The 4-car Penn Central set includes several of the colorful coach schemes that regularly appeared together in trains, even including an ex-New Haven observation!  Adding the 2-car set of coaches in the familiar overall PC Green completes the look of the kaleidoscopic trains pulled routinely behind the plain black locomotives of the PC.

This run includes an homage to the colorful Kansas City Southern as it now becomes part of the new Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad.  The “Southern Belle” was the premier streamlined name train on the KCS, featuring a striking dark green, red, and yellow (gold) paint scheme which first appeared on an EMD diesel in June of 1940 (E3 #3).  By 1952, new E8 locomotives took over the “Belle”, including #27.  This locomotive, the cars in the 4-pack, plus the additional sleeper “Colonel Fordyce” represent a complete prototype consist of the Belle from August of 1968, only about one year before the end of passenger service on KCS, and less than 6 months before #27 (and #23) were repainted into the “White Ghost” scheme – the only E8s to wear a different KCS paint scheme since new in the 1950s.  By 1970, E8s #27 and #25 (now rebuilt as an E9m) were sold to the Chicago & North Western Railway, and the era of the colorful passenger name trains became part of railroading history.

The guaranteed order deadline for the O Amtrak Streamlined Passenger Cars is June 7, 2023. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.

 

Features Include:

  • Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Bodies
  • Stamped Metal Floors
  • Detailed Car Undercarriage
  • Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
  • Metal Wheels and Axles
  • Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  • Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  • Needle-Point Axles
  • (2) Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
  • O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
  • Constant Voltage Overhead LED Interior Lighting
  • End-of-Car Diaphragms
  • Separate Metal Handrails
  • Detailed Car Interiors
  • Sliding Baggage Car Doors
  • Detailed Brake Wheel
  • 1:48 Scale Proportions
  • Unit Measures: 19” x 2 7/16” x 3 1/2”
  • Operates On O-42 Curves

4-PACK MSRP: $479.80 2-PACK MSRP: $239.90 SINGLE CAR MSRP: $119.95
E8 Locomotive MSRP 3-RAIL: $599.95
Unpowered MSRP: $279.95

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PENN CENTRAL
3-Rail Item #:
30138235
30138236
30138242 (Unpowered)
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PENN CENTRAL 70' STREAMLINE COACH 2-PACK
3-Rail Item #:
3001484
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PENN CENTRAL:
70' STREAMLINE COACH (X3)
70' STREAMLINE OBSERVATION  
3-Rail Item #:
3001483
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KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN
3-Rail Item #:
30138239
30138240
30138244 (Unpowered)
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KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN
70' STREAMLINE SLEEPER
3-Rail Item #:
3001486
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KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN:
70' STREAMLINE BAGGAGE
70' STREAMLINE COACH
70' STREAMLINE COACH
70' STREAMLINE OBSERVATION
3-Rail Item #:
3001485

The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Premier Streamlined Passenger Cars and Matching Locomotives

 

The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Premier Streamlined Passenger Cars and Matching Locomotives

The lightweight, streamlined passenger car was a product of the Great Depression. While the heavyweight steel cars built in the teens and 1920s were dependable and often luxurious, their dark colors and solid, battleship-like exteriors did little to lift the spirits at a time when the entire nation needed a pick-me-up. As noted railroad historian John H. White, Jr. put it in The American Railroad Passenger Car, “Some hope during these gloomy years was offered by a new design concept called streamlining. It presented a sleek, modern image of speed and innovation. What had been an obscure technical term in aerodynamics was made into a household word through an astute publicity campaign mounted by several railroad traffic departments. It succeeded in creating a general interest in railroading practically unknown since the opening of the first transcontinental line… According to Railway Age, ‘For the first time in many years, the words ‘sold out’ re-entered the ticket clerk’s vocabulary.’”

The more modern Burlington Northern “hockey stick” and classic Rock Island silver schemes ran in both overnight and local service, and the cars provided in the various sets (with matching locomotives) allow you to represent a number of different trains, and feature an additional coach car included in the 4-pack.

The guaranteed order deadline for the O Burlington Northern and Rock Island Streamlined Passenger Cars is June 7, 2023. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.

Features Include:

  • Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Bodies
  • Stamped Metal Floors
  • Detailed Car Undercarriage
  • Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
  • Metal Wheels and Axles
  • Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  • Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  • Needle-Point Axles
  • (2) Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
  • O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
  • Constant Voltage Overhead LED Interior Lighting
  • End-of-Car Diaphragms
  • Separate Metal Handrails
  • Detailed Car Interiors
  • Sliding Baggage Car Doors
  • Detailed Brake Wheel
  • 1:48 Scale Proportions
  • Unit Measures: 19” x 2 7/16” x 3 1/2”
  • Operates On O-42 Curves

4-PACK MSRP: $479.80 2-PACK MSRP: $239.90 SINGLE CAR MSRP: $119.95
E8 LOCOMOTIVE MSRP 3-RAIL: $679.95

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BURLINGTON NORTHERN
3-Rail Item #:
30138231
30138232
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BURLINGTON NORTHERN
70' STREAMLINE DINER
3-Rail Item #:
3001479
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BURLINGTON NORTHERN
70' STREAMLINE VISTA DOME CARS
3-Rail Item #:
3001478
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BURLINGTON NORTHERN
70' STREAMLINE BAGGAGE
70' STREAMLINE COACH
70' STREAMLINE COACH
70' STREAMLINE FULL VISTA DOME
3-Rail Item #:
3001477
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ROCK ISLAND
3-Rail Item #:
30138237
30138238
30138243 (Unpowered)
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ROCK ISLAND
70' STREAMLINE DINER
70' STREAMLINE SLEEPER
3-Rail Item #:
3001488
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ROCK ISLAND
70' STREAMLINE BAGGAGE
70' STREAMLINE COACH
70' STREAMLINE COACH
70' STREAMLINE OBSERVATION
3-Rail Item #:
3001487

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The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Premier Amtrak Streamlined Passenger Cars and Matching Locomotive

The Atlas Product Spotlight - O Premier Amtrak Streamlined Passenger Cars and Matching Locomotive

This run of O Premier E8s and Passenger Cars provides the modeler with appropriate “trainsets” for each roadname to replicate typical passenger consists that might be found on the prototype.

As the operational lifetime of the E8 locomotive covered from the early 1950s through the 1980s in many cases, several changes were made to their appearance during rebuilds, such as removal of the distinctive “Portholes” when the side panels began to rust through.  This run of E8s features all-new tooling to replicate these “smoothsided” variations where appropriate for owners like Amtrak, who relied heavily on these locomotives in the early 1970s.

Coupled with the Phase 1 paint scheme E8, the Amtrak 4-car set (also in Phase 1 livery), which includes a baggage car, coach, Vista Dome and Observation car, is the perfect starting point to represent a local “section” of what might be a cross-country train.  Adding the 2-car set of a Sleeper and a Diner, as well as a second powered (or unpowered) E8 locomotive completes the typical cars found in an overnight run, and the full-length Vista Dome is a great place to watch the scenery as the train travels across the great expanses of the USA.

The guaranteed order deadline for the O Amtrak Streamlined Passenger Cars is June 7, 2023. Click here to find an Authorized Atlas Dealer near you.

 

Features Include:

  • Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Bodies
  • Stamped Metal Floors
  • Detailed Car Undercarriage
  • Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
  • Metal Wheels and Axles
  • Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  • Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  • Needle-Point Axles
  • (2) Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
  • O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
  • Constant Voltage Overhead LED Interior Lighting
  • End-of-Car Diaphragms
  • Separate Metal Handrails
  • Detailed Car Interiors
  • Sliding Baggage Car Doors
  • Detailed Brake Wheel
  • 1:48 Scale Proportions
  • Unit Measures: 19” x 2 7/16” x 3 1/2”
  • Operates On O-42 Curves

4-PACK MSRP: $479.80 2-PACK MSRP: $239.90 SINGLE CAR MSRP: $119.95

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AMTRAK
3-Rail Item #:
30138229
30138230
30138241 (Unpowered)
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AMTRAK (PHASE 1)
70' STREAMLINE FULL VISTA DOME
3-Rail Item #:
3001476
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AMTRAK (PHASE 1)
70' STREAMLINE SLEEPER
70' STREAMLINE DINER
3-Rail Item #:
3001475
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AMTRAK (PHASE 1)
70' STREAMLINE BAGGAGE
70' STREAMLINE COACH
70' STREAMLINE VISTA DOME
70' STREAMLINE OBSERVATION
3-Rail Item #:
3001474