Atlas Catalog

Bob posted:

"Well, first off, if there were large quantities of Atlas at Indy, would somebody please provide me with some e-mail addresses and phone numbers."

Bill Davis was the dealer with many tables full (at least at the beginning of the show) of brand new boxed 2-rail Atlas O and Intermountain cars for $25 each.  Some guys were buying them a dozen at a time.  You can contact Bill via his American Scale Models website and see what he might have left.

http://americanscalemodels.com/

A different dealer at the O-Scale Convention in Enfield, CT this June also had huge numbers of new Atlas cars for $30 each or 4 for $100.  I did buy a dozen from him. 

In all fairness, the massive amounts of Atlas O Bill had at Indy appeared to be part of an estate sale.

And most appeared to be steam or transition era cars. 

From mfg info I got, the domestic 0 market is rather subdued.  However the European market is popping.  That is striking when you consider their pricing is on the high side and their homes are many times on the smaller than average size.  

TOM TEE,

From the info that was shared with you,in your opinion,what should O Scale suspect from Atlas in the near future,besides very little?

I've heard the same from European modelers-O Scale is booming. Doesn't make sense to me.

Thanks,

Al Hummel

Al, here is the reason:

European's pay more, much more, for each model, hence they get better detailed models delivered in the main on time. They don't ***** about $90 a boxcar and you can get very little for $90 either on the mainland or here.   I'm sure there are other reasons but this seems the most obviously apparent reason to me.  Which customers do you think the Chinese will prefer to work for, the one who wants the job done for next to nothing or the ones who pay that bit more. 

n.

Rule292 posted:

Bob posted:

"Well, first off, if there were large quantities of Atlas at Indy, would somebody please provide me with some e-mail addresses and phone numbers."

Bill Davis was the dealer with many tables full (at least at the beginning of the show) of brand new boxed 2-rail Atlas O and Intermountain cars for $25 each.  Some guys were buying them a dozen at a time.  You can contact Bill via his American Scale Models website and see what he might have left.

http://americanscalemodels.com/

A different dealer at the O-Scale Convention in Enfield, CT this June also had huge numbers of new Atlas cars for $30 each or 4 for $100.  I did buy a dozen from him. 

In all fairness, the massive amounts of Atlas O Bill had at Indy appeared to be part of an estate sale.

And most appeared to be steam or transition era cars. 

This year there was a 5 part auction of Jim Seacrest's collection from Lincoln, NE averaging about 550 items per sale or 2700 or so pieces. Davis, Norm's of Maine and about a dozen others were there in person, the rest of us were on line. It seems a lot of the models sold in excess of what was considered a reasonable range so those who were there did not cut a fat hog. There was a lot of Atlas as well as other brands like Sunset even some Lionel, MTH, Weaver and others. The sale included motor vehicles, buildings, train cars, etc. So, yes, there is a lot of Atlas available but it is not cheap. Yes, I won a few items.

Dick