Has anyone received the 2019 car yet?
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Are you referring to the LED flag one? Transcontinental 150 UP 60’ boxcar? I’d also love to know the status on the brass 4-4-0’s... Jupiter and UP 119 plus matching cars...
And let me follow that by saying that I know they WERE supposed to arrive in June... is that still the case?
I can't remember if the ones you referenced were addons, but the actual GSC car was a 36 foot Amour Packing Reefer. And it maybe June. Seems later and later each year if it is June.
Spoke to ATLAS last week, still June, maybe. They will arrive with the rest of the 36' reefers, so you can check the ATLAS shipping schedule and you will be able to see when the 36' reefers leave China and then when ATLAS ships to customers.
Well June is just about in the can. And I just got an email stating that the first two weeks of July are slated as vacation dates. Is August a possibility?
With no container shipping date, from China, posted as of now, for the 36' reefers; August, doubt it.
I doubt at this point I will be renewing my GSC membership in December. I guess I could say that I already have more filled boxes of train equipment than I will ever be able to use on my layout. Or my being of advanced age and being happy where I am, Or my exasperation with Atlas trying to obtain Atlas track for my expansion this year or just the fact this car has taken so long. I guess I will need to live another one to two years just to receive my 2020 Car.
I just received my 2020 GSC membership card in the mail today, only 6 months into the year. 😆
I’ve been a GSC member for only 4 years but at this rate it’s highly unlikely that there will be a 5th year in my future. If a simple club car can’t be delivered on time then I don’t see the point in renewing. Locomotive production has ceased and rolling stock that in some cases is years past due is enough reason for me to call it quits with the GSC.
Luckily, I’ve accumulated a lot of Atlas products over the years to be set for a long time.
I didnt sign up the last 2 years because I didnt want the club car. The last year I did it was 2018, and i think the car showed up sometime around last September or October.
I'm still waiting for the GSC BNSF heritage hoppers that were offered in 2018. It seems like its just par for the course at this point.
@catnap posted:I just received my 2020 GSC membership card in the mail today, only 6 months into the year. 😆
I’ve been a GSC member for only 4 years but at this rate it’s highly unlikely that there will be a 5th year in my future. If a simple club car can’t be delivered on time then I don’t see the point in renewing. Locomotive production has ceased and rolling stock that in some cases is years past due is enough reason for me to call it quits with the GSC.
Luckily, I’ve accumulated a lot of Atlas products over the years to be set for a long time.
Apparently, the membership cards were assigned to a shipping container finally. Did not even think of it and then received mine in the mail today also. How bizarre is this sequence of events?
Container, containing 36' reefers, shipped from China on July 4.
Thank-you for the update. I had not checked the Atlas Website in a while.
As it is closing in on the middle of August, I was wondering if anyone has received the 2019 car yet?
Is it too soon to inquire as to the status of the 2020 Car?
@Loose-Caboose posted:As it is closing in on the middle of August, I was wondering if anyone has received the 2019 car yet?
Is it too soon to inquire as to the status of the 2020 Car?
The container ship sailed from China on July 14. Too soon to arrive for stateside distribution, check the Atlas website for when the 36' reefers arrive here.
@Arthur posted:The container ship sailed from China on July 14. Too soon to arrive for stateside distribution, check the Atlas website for when the 36' reefers arrive here.
Yeah, I did look at the schedule on the Atlas website. But does a freighter really take a month to go from China to Long Beach and then I would imagine to TOFC to the East Coast? I was surprised when I looked that there was no date in the last column still. I guess I am getting anxious.
Jim, this hobby requires patience.
@Arthur posted:Jim, this hobby requires patience.
I have nothing but patience. If nothing else proves this, the 2019 GSC car should be proof of my Patience. Since this is the 2019 car, I probably sent my renewal notice in Oct/Nov of 2018. Now I am wondering what I will see next. My 2021 renewal request from Atlas or the 2019 Car. I fear the Renewal Request at this rate.
@Arthur posted:Spoke to ATLAS last week, still June, maybe. They will arrive with the rest of the 36' reefers, so you can check the ATLAS shipping schedule and you will be able to see when the 36' reefers leave China and then when ATLAS ships to customers.
I just got an email from MR. Muffin implying that he just received a shipment of 36' Reefers. I quickly went to the Atlas website to check the status hoping an update beyond container assignment. No Joy. This is incredible. Two months on the ocean?
I have a shipping notification from Atlas with a USPS tracking # so it’s probably the 2019 GSC club car. It seems like they are finally here.
Now, about the 2020 car...
@catnap posted:I have a shipping notification from Atlas with a USPS tracking # so it’s probably the 2019 GSC club car. It seems like they are finally here.
Now, about the 2020 car...
One step at a time.
@catnap posted:
Very nice, worth the wait.
No Joy Yet!
Mine finally arrived. Interesting I have an app for USPS that tracks packages. I got informed that I was to receive a package from Piney-Bowes. Having not ordered anything from PB, I was bewildered. I wondered if it could be the GSC Car since it was mailed from NJ. So when I went to the mailbox thinking I should be getting something from PB, nothing was in the box from PB. I stopped the mailman on his return trip and asked him about a package from PB and he stated he had no packages for my street. Huh? I went back in the house checked the app and it stated the PB package was delivered. My wife then stated that the mailman had placed a package on the porch via our camera. Huh? Went to the door and there was my package from Atlas. This whole scenario was very weird from the length of shipping to the actual delivery
P. S. Earlier today I was checking orders I have with Atlas on their website of which is the 2020 GSC car. It stated scheduled delivery was third Qtr of 2020. It being Oct 2020, here we go again.
Ya gotta laugh!
Got mine this past Saturday, 10/3, same notification from USPS, Pitney-Bowes.