DAVID 1,
I agree with you but 98% of everything I have is Atlas. My diesels,&hi-cube boxcars,are MTH. I have some used Weaver cars,about a dozen in all.
Modeling from the '80s to present day,is a challenge for me. Couplers from Atlas are junk. No shelf couplers on modern stock is like having Link&Pin couplers on '50s era rolling stock. Lack of realism will hold serious modelers from going O Scale too. I'm close enough to 60 to call it & don't have ages to wait on things I want that may never happen. I'm willing to be patient if I have reason to believe things will come along in a REASONABLE TIME FRAME,not 20 years from now. I love the size of O Scale,but when that becomes all I have going for me on the plus side of the "checks and balances" column,it's time to sit down & do a serious evaluation of where things stand and where they're going.
Come on Atlas Rep's,talk to your "bread and butter" customers!!
Again,just my 2 cents worth.
As Always,
Al Hummel
