daylight posted:brwebster posted:To compliment my Milwaukee Road F-7 (Weaver brass) I added this A class Atlantic. The Overland model appears to be 1960's or 70's vintage, judging by the primitive drive train. A future repaint will take a bit of skill and a pair of big ones.
Very nice.
Bought a new Lionel version ( Atlantic) from ebay a few months ago along with matching 18" aluminum passenger cars. However, they were rib sided as opposed to smooth sided with the beaver tail observation car that goes with the Atlantic. The rib sided versions were made for the F7 Milwaukee Road Hudson which came along about 3 years later.
Has Rail Sounds 5 and smokes like a champ which surprised me.
Didn't know that anyone else made this engine in O gauge.
Incorrect. The rib-sided cars Lionel modeled in its 2006 release were based on the cars the Milwaukee Road began introducing in 1936, one year after unveiling the Hiawatha Atlantics. Those four locomotives pulled those cars until the Hudsons were introduced. Source: "The Hiawatha Story" by Jim Scribbins, the authoritative author on all things Milwaukee Road from the Hiawatha era to the 1970s.
Also, the Hiawatha Atlantic has been rendered four other times in O gauge: Lionel's 1937 release, Lionel's 1988 release, Weaver's 2003 release, and Lionel's 2006 release. I was unaware of this Overland model.
