FWIW... The last time Atlas offered the SW series switchers, they cancelled the run due to low order numbers.
And, wasn't the run before that also cancelled? They lost their factory, or something? Maybe I'm wrong. Regardless, I don't understand the lack of interest in these switchers. Haven't been available for some time, fantastic running O-scale model, and prototypically very popular. I know I'm jonesing to preorder two ... preferably undecorated.
I think a lot of ppl dont know that 2 rail exists.
Certainly many HOers that do admire O scale ... are not aware. Reading their message boards, many only know of their grandfather's semi-scale trains around the Christmas tree on 3-rail tubular track. Not very knowledgeable of how far O scale has come. And completely unaware of 2-rail (so many of them deplore, mock the third rail) ... with it's DCC components.
I always promote 2-rail O with them. I've made a short, poor-quality video of my Atlas MP15 endcab switchers ... a 2-rail O and a HO. They're always super impressed with the O scale version. I'm trying.
It would be a real shame if these 2-rail SWs just fade away.
