New Atlas O cabooses arrived...

Beautiful work as always.  I passed on these as they don't match the prototype, but your detailing definitely improves them!

Thanks Jonathan. I agree. Atlas O is no longer accurate and have joined the other cookie cutter suppliers.

These will be my last caboose purchases. I can now run 4 to 7 trains for each road. All the fallen flags operations are covered.

Great work Sirt! It's too bad that in order to get something to be prototypical, scale, or have some level of accuracy most of time O Scalers have to modify. HO and N scalers have it made in this way. But if I had your skills, no problem.

Dave

SIRT...The CNJ version, I agree, in not accurate but perhaps removing cupola will make a plausible transfer caboose although CNJ never had a steel transfer caboose. But if you decide to make one, I'm in for one too.

Thanks.

Walter M. Matuch

Steve, excellent work, as always. So realistic.

Tom

@SIRT posted:

Thanks Jonathan. I agree. Atlas O is no longer accurate and have joined the other cookie cutter suppliers.

These will be my last caboose purchases. I can now run 4 to 7 trains for each road. All the fallen flags operations are covered.

I think Atlas' Trainman line is not necessarily intended to be completely accurate, its  intended to be less expensive. Atlas does a better prototypical job with the Master line and it remains to be seen what they will do with the Premier line.

Being a C&O person these are right down my alley. They are fairly accurate for a C&O caboose.

Comparing the 3RD Rail brass C&O caboose (on the left) with the Atlas they are pretty close. I had to paint the window awnings black and the cab end handrails yellow on the Atlas.

I also purchased a couple of undecorated versions in order to add two more paint schemes to my fleet.

Pre 1948:

Post 1957:

Now if I could just do weathering as well as SIRT does. Just beautiful weathering work.

Ken

The Atlas were for C&O and they look quite nice.

I used the photos to decorate the CNJ. Herald, red irons and type are both incorrect on the Atlas CNJ.  All in all, I still like them. l also like to thank Mr. Muffins trains for making them available.

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