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Atlas O California Zephyr Passenger Car Sets Available for Order

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March 16th, 2016- Hillside, NJ—Atlas is proud to announce commemorative edition California Zephyr Passenger Car Sets for Atlas dealers and distributors, and limited edition California Zephyr Passenger Car Sets for Golden Spike Club members are now available for order.

Commemorative edition sets, sold through dealers and distributors, will be available in three boxes, containing four unique cars apiece, all of which will combine to form the complete passenger car trainset. The three road names available for these sets (CB&Q, DRGW, WP) are the same railroads that partnered in this train’s cross country trip from Chicago to San Francisco. By ordering any of the noted A, B and C road name sets, customers will be able to create a complete, prototypically correct, 12 car consist of the real California Zephyr.

The limited edition offering for Golden Spike Club members is a twelve car set based on the original, as produced passenger car trainset for the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy (CB&Q) railroad. Each set will come specially packaged with a numbered, metal certificate of authenticity. Available only in this set is the exceptional, all-silver 10/6 PRR sleeper that afforded passengers coast to coast service without changing cars. Members who purchase this set will also receive a 2017 primary membership to the Golden Spike Club absolutely free.

Car names for the commemorative and limited edition sets will not be duplicated across the GSC and dealer/distributor sets. The cars are expected to arrive in December 2016.

Additionally, the highly accurate F-3 locomotives that powered these trains will also be produced and offered separately by Atlas O. Road names available for these locomotives are CB&Q, WP and D&RGW.

Complete details and ordering information for the California Zephyr train sets and accompanying locomotives can be found on:

http://www.atlaso.com/ocz-set.htm
http://www.atlaso.com/ogsc-cz-set.htm
http://www.atlaso.com/f-unit4.htm

To sign up for the Atlas Golden Spike Club, visit http://www.atlaso.com/club.htm.

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Rocky MountaineerRocky MountaineerOGR Forum Member

At $1600 for Golden Spike members, that's a TERRIFIC price for 12 world-class O-Scale passenger cars -- not to mention folks get the ENTIRE train (vs. those of us who've walked this journey for nearly 7 years!!!).  That's roughly $130 per car and no hassles of a multi-year wait... or slight paint variations from cars built at different times or by different factories.  For CZ enthusiasts not already invested in the earlier cars, this "commemorative set" is a no-brainer with superb price/performance.

That's also a cool D&RGW paint-scheme for the F-3's.  I have Atlas-O's prior version on order (from their F-7 production run), but this yellow/black combo is a real eye-catcher too.  Hmmm... might need to give Steve at MrMuffins Trains a call for more motive power.     Decisions... decisions...  

David

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B breezinupOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Nice deal, especially considering how much time, effort and money it took for those who anguished through obtaining the first edition. 

Just wish it were available in a more useful size, for those who have smaller layouts. The 12 cars with an A-B-A stretch about 24.6 feet. (For comparison, that's 6 feet longer than a 2016 Chevy Suburban.) 

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Rocky MountaineerRocky MountaineerOGR Forum Member
breezinup posted:

...  Just wish it were available in a more useful size, for those who have smaller layouts. ...

For folks ordering thru dealers, I think they can order two of the three 4-car sets that are made in each road-name.  So an 8-car train can be assembled too.  Still a sizable train with 21" cars, but every little bit helps.

David

 

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JK Jerry KimbleOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

All,

As I had mentioned on another post to get correct information in your hands about this train as our Executive Chairman Tom Haedrich had mentioned to me when we were working on bringing these train sets to market that there are no guarantees in life (other than a couple) so if you ever had the inclination to own a premium model of what many consider was one of the greatest passenger trains in American, don't hesitate and order your version today.

Speaking of versions we've made it easy to order what are actually 10 sets counting the Limited Edition Golden Spike Club version (need to be a member), which has two cars that are still in service today. You can read about these two cars here:   http://www.calzephyrrailcar.co...s/Silver_Rapids.html and here: http://www.calzephyrrailcar.co...s/Silver_Rapids.html

If you have any questions about how this train in particular or how to order it please contact me, thanks.

Jerry Kimble

jkimble@atlaso.com

Coordinator Sales/Marketing/Product Development

Rocky MountaineerRocky MountaineerOGR Forum Member
Traindiesel posted:

Will there be any unpowered F units?

Good question.  Atlas-O offered unpowered F-7 units in the last announced production run.  I have an ABBA Rio Grande configuration (with 3 powered units) coming out of that production run.  I'm really taking a liking to this new Rio Grande paint-scheme... but might need to settle for an ABA 'cause I don't want -- nor do I need -- 4 powered units.

I'm also not crazy about the F3/F7 horn sound on these ERR sound boards.  For the $$$ spent, I wish Atlas-O or ERR would bite the bullet and put a richer sounding diesel horn in these locomotives.  The one that's there now -- even in the demo video in the original post -- has that "sick cow" sound to it, with little if any depth or presence to it.  I don't care if what's there is prototypical or not.  Sound is such an important element of enjoying today's model trains, I'd look the other way if art didn't necessarily imitate life to every rivet... or in this case, every note of the horn sound/chord. 

David

P.S.  I much prefer the ERR Railsounds for the C420 diesels, as per their website.  Does anybody know if these boards can just be swapped out for a soundboard that we prefer?  I know we can't "update" Railsounds by downloading our own sound file.  But I'd pay the extra $85 or so for the sounds I prefer, if a simple ERR board swap does the trick!  

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Ed Kelly posted:

...  Atlas says,"Car names for the commemorative and limited edition sets will not be duplicated across the GSC and dealer/distributor sets. "

So, will the names on the dealer sets be correct? ...

I can't imagine why Atlas wouldn't use accurate CZ names.

You might want to keep this website bookmarked, as it's a terrific reference for lots of info related to the California Zephyr.  Appears that there would be plenty of car names to go around without duplication.

David

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Thank you, David, for the link to the CZ website - it has an amazing wealth of information.

This set seems destined to become one of the collectible classics of the hobby.  I appreciate the way Atlas O is offering this set.  The four car sets provide a number of options and make a really nice way to get a smaller train that still captures the look and feel of the whole trains.   I don't model the roads over which the CZ ran, but the PRR Silver Rapids sleeper gives me an opening to go for this train.  

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JK Jerry KimbleOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

All,

I'll try to address as many questions and concerns that I've seen thus far starting with other passenger train sets being issued on the California Zephyr tooling even though it wouldn't be prototypically correct. As someone once said to me the model railroad hobby is a big tent that everyone can fit under, a statement I completely agree with. Having said this I don't want anyone to take offense to what I'm about to say and that is Atlas prides itself on doing scale models as realistic as possible for a given price point. We find that this is what the majority of our customer want from us and not toy models that are incorrect.

On the California Zephyr taking up too much real estate on a given layout. Again it's what we do, scale models which we don't make any apologies for. How many of you have purchased a scale "Big Boy" steam locomotive based on the excitement of Union Pacific putting #4014 back into service? Now raise your hands on how many of you have a layout that will support that beast, probably not many. You bought it because it represents an important part on American railroad history and you didn't know if the opportunity would ever present itself again and you now have it as your own. This same principal applies to the California Zephyr in that it represented an important part of American railroad history with some historian considering it to be the most beautiful passenger train of the streamline era, hence having the nickname of "The Silver Lady". It's the only passenger train that has two Websites dedicated to it and four very well written books about it as well, with one of those books commanding monster money on e-Bay if you can find it. Think positive that one day you could join a club that has a layout that would support this beauty or start your own modular club where you can run what you brung (hot rod term). If you're financially able don't let this opportunity pass you by either just like with the "Big Boy".

Will there be any none powered diesels offered with the sets? No as we wanted these sets to be special in every way so we elected to forgo offering dummies, which we always find someone down the line wanting to buy the parts to power them anyway. I personally own two dummies in my entire collection of locomotives and that happened because I had to buy extra pieces to provide myself with an all powered CB&Q ABA set and the same with the Western Pacific ABB set. I will be selling these as soon as I can because I'm the only dummy in my locomotive consist. Needless to say I won't have to do this with the Denver Rio Grande & Western set of ABBAs as they are all powered. We're well aware that for the three rail models with traction tires two powered locomotives in the consist will in most cases be sufficient enough power to pull the consist on most layouts. Two rail is a different story altogether with those modelers needing the extra power for the California Zephyrs length.

Will the Western Pacific units have the stainless finish that we're offering on the Santa Fe Warbonnet F7s with the answer being no as we didn't have the time to make that change. For those of you who were at the York TCA event in October of 2015 and saw the complete train run with the Western Pacific F3s on the led those were my engines (all powered of course) and I heard nothing but compliments about the appearance of this ABB set.

Are the names correct for the various sets with the answer being absolutely! We'll be holding yet another seminar at York in April to go over how to order these sets which by the way numbers 9 different sets for Dealers and 1 special set for our Golden Spike Club members. We'll also discuss how how we chose the names for the various sets as well.

We thank everyone for their enthusiasm over these California Zephyr passenger train sets and for those of you who have already ordered them.

Jerry Kimble - Atlas Model Railroad Company

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