I recall Ted Stepek saying the Atlas Plymouth was significantly oversize. Being an extreme SPF rivet counter, Ted wouldn't want one on his railroad other than for testing. However Ted's close friend (and collaborator on Atlas layout books) John Armstrong used a pair of coupled Atlas Plymouths on his Canandaigua Southern to move cuts of very heavy Atlas ore cars (weighted with taconite pellets!) between the main line and a hidden interchange track. A thrifty Scot to the core, John probably found the Atlas Plymouths to be the most cost effective motive power solution available at the time.
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