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China sourcing of die cast metal trucks is a crap shoot.
 
Just what is the fixation on die cast trucks?  There are plenty of high quality trucks from Bill Davis, Yoder, and more even from Precision Scale.  This continuing episode with Atlas just serves to demonstrate the perils of marriage to a specific source of cars and trucks.  I'm fortunate that for 95% of my cars that the old Athearn plastic trucks with IM wheelsets are perfectly adequate and roll forever. 
 
BTW....since I continue working my LHS job as per the past 17 years since retirement, and order monthly from Kadee with a passing comment to Sherri and Karen @ Kadee, I never miss an opportunity to put in a plug for O-scale trucks......

Good and thanks for the effort; what kinds of responses do you get to those plugs?  I'd think that the numbers game would dissuade them from entering the O scale marketplace, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

Wiseman Model Services makes a 2 rail Archbar and a 2 rail bettendorf truck kit that comes with intermountain rails. They are cast white metal, but seem pretty solid. Much better than the old pot metal. At 20 bucks a pop, they are an affordable option, and they roll forever. I've bought and put several together. I like them. 

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