catnap posted:hibar posted:When you are a MFGs rep at these shows that comes with the territory, it appears based on recent monthly announcements that Atlas is limiting future production either to catch up with present backlog or O gauge is going to be a limited run line for them. JMO
I think it's the former rather than the latter. If you notice on their shipping schedule all overdue motive power is listed towards the top, including such Trainman locomotives like the Dash 8-40CW's and RSD-7/15's. I believe Atlas realizes that backlogged engines take a greater precedence over rolling stock. Aside from the F7's in January Atlas has not delivered any locomotives this year.
What Atlas has done with the latest shipping schedule is list models by the earliest date of announcement thereby putting the Tman GE 8-40CW [2/19/14] at the top of the list, coincidently it still has a Q4/17 delivery date. The latest announcement is at the bottom of the list, what that means in terms of actual delivery is anybodys guess. just saying.
