Rule292 posted:Bob posted:"Well, first off, if there were large quantities of Atlas at Indy, would somebody please provide me with some e-mail addresses and phone numbers."
Bill Davis was the dealer with many tables full (at least at the beginning of the show) of brand new boxed 2-rail Atlas O and Intermountain cars for $25 each. Some guys were buying them a dozen at a time. You can contact Bill via his American Scale Models website and see what he might have left.
http://americanscalemodels.com/
A different dealer at the O-Scale Convention in Enfield, CT this June also had huge numbers of new Atlas cars for $30 each or 4 for $100. I did buy a dozen from him.
In all fairness, the massive amounts of Atlas O Bill had at Indy appeared to be part of an estate sale.
And most appeared to be steam or transition era cars.
This year there was a 5 part auction of Jim Seacrest's collection from Lincoln, NE averaging about 550 items per sale or 2700 or so pieces. Davis, Norm's of Maine and about a dozen others were there in person, the rest of us were on line. It seems a lot of the models sold in excess of what was considered a reasonable range so those who were there did not cut a fat hog. There was a lot of Atlas as well as other brands like Sunset even some Lionel, MTH, Weaver and others. The sale included motor vehicles, buildings, train cars, etc. So, yes, there is a lot of Atlas available but it is not cheap. Yes, I won a few items.
Dick
