Atlas O new catalog is out! What're ya gettin'?

I like the stock cars but sadly no NYC or New England roads so nothing this time around.

Probably corn syrup cars (ADM, maybe MNCX), plus Berwicks in NS, maybe DT&I - perhaps UP. Sorta disappointed there are only two numbers per road/owner on most, instead of four, especially on the corn syrup cars.

David

I might get a couple of the MEC hoppers, but that’s it.  I was hoping Atlas might introduce a new loco with all new tooling, but that’s probably too much to ask in this day and age.

Going to get the Burlington Northern E8s, I Might also get the Rock Island E8's as well.

I plan on ordering one of the Rock Island E8's along with the Rock Island Diner/Coach passenger car set to go with it.

No 2 rail E8s?

Might grab a few of those coal hoppers. I gotta tally up what I have already purchased and then go from there.

@harley rider posted:

No 2 rail E8s?

No 2-rail E-8s unfortunately, @harley rider.

Nothing in this one, most too late for my era.   Well, maybe the 6-bay hopper in BN bicentennial for my R/W/B fleet.

I guess I am waiting for the non-Premier catalog.

MEC hopper is something never offered but I’m going with the new RMT MEC & BM real wood chip cars instead.

Nothing of interest for me. Was really hoping for new B50-5 44.5' box cars.

I did not see anything to interest me, so nothing this time around.

No 2 rail switchers = no interest.

RF&P hoppers interest me.

2 rail cattle cars, easy enough to repaint and re letter.  No interest in in up grading the  E8 to scale and the rest are too modern Atlas needs to wake up and smell the coffee

A few of the coal hoppers, but was hoping for some better passenger car offerings.  While I like the variations within the sets, a few more liveries would have been nice.

Southern stainless for one. 

@Dave Koehler posted:

2 rail cattle cars, easy enough to repaint and re letter.  No interest in in up grading the  E8 to scale and the rest are too modern Atlas needs to wake up and smell the coffee

I know there are a fair number of people who are very excited to see more modern stuff available again. I'm sure that upcoming catalogs with contain more of the items that you will be interested in.

Long over due 60' Berwick boxcars

$200 on secondary market, around $80 preorder price from a good dealer

I'm definitely in for a couple of those red army tank cars.  Very sweet!

I am very happy to see plenty of modern offerings, my wallet is not. I probably pre-order the 60' hy-cube in NS and DT&I both road numbers for each, the 17,600 gallon tank car in GATX both road numbers, and the 50'6" box car in UP (BKTY) both road numbers and in Guilford (MEC) one road number.

Who knows when any of it will arrive, I still have some 25,000 gallon tanks cars, rebuilt well cars, and some Maxi-IV well cars on order.

Every one of the 60’ Berwick boxcars (x) 2 each.

No more fretting over those scalpers on the auction sites that charge $200 each. I do not mind waiting a year since I have been waiting years for Atlas to manufacture them again.

Thank you Atlas.

Donald

Good to see the 60' Berwick Hy-Cubes making another appearance. When they hit the streets, it will be 7 years from the last run. The NS and Conrail versions are definites, while the UP "large letter" version is also up for consideration. Sorry to see they did not include the TTX roadname in this run. It was part of the 2017 release and I snoozed on them and lost out. They are very hard, to impossible, to find today. Also interested in the Amtrak Rapid Discharge Hoppers. I've seen them on occasion, just off of Rt. 95 in Delaware, on my way to JusTrains.

All four numbers of the Amtrak rapid-discharge hoppers (I suggested these to an Atlas rep at the Amherst show. Hmmm....)

Looking further, maybe the NS Berwick hi-cubes and a couple of corn-syrup tankers (Tate & Lyle, ADM)

---PCJ

@bigboy25 posted:

I'm probably go with the BNSF & UP SD70Macs, some corn syrup cars, the NS berwick, and the BKTY boxcar. All in 2-rail for me .

Will the 2-rail units have fixed pilots?

@BobbyD posted:

Will the 2-rail units have fixed pilots?

Yes.  Go to 11:00 mark on the video.

I'm in for a pair of ATSF Livestock cars and a pair of the ATSF Cylindrical hoppers. I'm on the fence about the UP 4015 and BNSF SD70MAC engines. I need to get rid of some stuff to make space.

Catalog photos are often mock-ups.  Did the Atlas folks say whether the E8s are being produced from the former MTH Premier tooling?  Thanks!

@Ted S posted:

Catalog photos are often mock-ups.  Did the Atlas folks say whether the E8s are being produced from the former MTH Premier tooling?  Thanks!

Yes.  Atlas “Premier” means it’s the old MTH Premier tooling.  If it’s Atlas tooling, it will be labeled “Master Line” or “Trainman”

I will be preordering the Penn Central E-8 4064.

I find ordering new products slightly ambiguous when it comes to delivery dates.  MTH has a clearly superior web portal that indexes and provides a very robust and searcahable database that is intuitive.  Atlas, not so much.  Although we are all a little tired about the supply chain excuse because of Covid production limitations, why can't we see updated delivery dates or even "TBD" instead of a delivery date that is 9 months old.  That way I'm not bugging the vendor once a month.  Now I ordered a Atlas Premier locomotive from the WINTER 2021-22 O PREMIER CATALOG which states a GUARANTEED PRE-ORDER DUE DATE: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 19TH, 2022.  This was probably the first Atlas “Premier” catalog and I ordered my engine on Nov 24, 2022 from an on-line vendor.  I received it on April 4, 2023.  Atlas doesn’t even show projected delivery dates that I can see.  I’m assuming that the vendor orders in bulk on the guaranteed pre-order date so they can sell at a competitive price.  So does that mean it takes about 15 months from vendor order to consumer delivery?  I ordered another Atlas Premier Diesel from the Spring 2022 catalog with a guaranteed pre-order due date of June 8^th, 2022.  Does that mean I can expect my delivery about September this year?  FYI, I really like my new Atlas Premier engine.

@Profuse posted:

Although we are all a little tired about the supply chain excuse because of Covid production limitations, why can't we see updated delivery dates or even "TBD" instead of a delivery date that is 9 months old.  ... Atlas doesn’t even show projected delivery dates that I can see.  ...  So does that mean it takes about 15 months from vendor order to consumer delivery?  ... Does that mean I can expect my delivery about September this year?

Well...from what I read hear and from the MTH videos, the chips/electronics availability is still a problem, for all the importers (or builders). That said, it's not only the locos that are slow to arrive. Atlas does show a projected date, if you go to the production schedule page - but as you note, those tend to slip by. These days, for Atlas, I'd say close to a year, minimum, after the pre-order deadline (what you called the GUARANTEED PRE-ORDER DUE DATE), and more often 18 months or more. I have lots of Atlas stuff on order.

And right now, all the O items that haven't left China show, at earliest, 2nd Quarter 2023, with one TBA, on the production schedule page.

Atlas Production Schedule

David

Conrail Berwicks - This is the first time that the Conrail large logo 'Wheels on Rails' is being produced

What is everyone ordering out of this new Atlas catalog?

I can't decide between either one of the UP engines or Metra engine