@GG1 4877 posted:This is a good fit for Atlas. I'll be curious to see what Atlas does with their new acquisitions. I've always found Atlas product to be superior to MTH in many ways so maybe Atlas will upgrade some of the tooling.
Jonathan, I agree with your assessment. Their Master 3-rail locomotives (when they were able to get them produced and shipped) were ahead of their time (and certainly ahead of MTH & Lionel) in terms of level of detail.
My biggest complaint is with the sound package...both quality and variety. RailSounds was fine back when Atlas was getting started with "O" locomotives. However, selling $400-500++ diesels still equipped with very generic and very dated RailSounds packages (e.g. 4 "notches" of prime mover sounds instead of 8) just doesn't cut it today, especially when compared to Lionel Legacy and MTH PS3.
This deal with MTH--and (hopefully) the ability to use the wide variety of PS3 diesel sound packages--would immediately eliminate that issue...at least for me anyway.
