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Reply to "industrial rail vs bowser brill trolley"

I saw a photo of the Bowser model on Atlas O track. I counted 23 ties below the length of the trolley. I measured a piece of Atlas O track and I get 10-1/4 inches for that length, give or take a quarter inch, given the slight angle of the photo I looked at.

I doubt the MTH trolley is from the same exact tooling as the IR/Atlas IR version, though they sure could be close in size. If they are close in size and you can live with that, the advantage of the MTH over the Atlas IR trolley, is that MTH is still currently making them.

When Atlas was dropped by Sanda Kan (their one time Chinese manufacturing vendor), Atlas made the statement that much of their tooling had been severely damaged during the move process and would require extensive (ie: expensive) refurbishing. Though it was never specified by Atlas, it's not too unrealistic to assume this also included the former Industrial Rail tooling in addition to the regular Atlas O products. 

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