For a little more background info on the 1970's era Atlas/Roco line see my recent Atlas 1970's post on the 3RS forum. Ted Stepek and John Armstrong brought me into O scale from HO back in 1971 and I consider Ted to be my PRR modelling mentor along with a very dear friend, Ray Jury . On Friday nights at Ted's we often would see pre-production Atlas products running on Ted's O scale 2 rail railroad. Once he rain an endurance test of the Atlas Plymouth diesel. He mounted a mechanical counter on the body of the Plymouth and ran it non stop for a week or so around his layout until the drive train gave out due to bearing surface wear. Knowing the length of his continuous mainline and the lap count he was able to repot back to Atlas owner Steve Shaffen (SP??) and Roco how many miles the locomotive ran and what elements in the mechanism failed. Early in the development of the Atlas/Roco O scale product line Steve and Ted flew to Austria to meet with Roco management and designers.
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