Here is the link to the Atlas website with the announcement and pictures of the new IR cars to be made under the Atlas banner. When you find the car category, you have to scroll down to the box with the road names listed and click on those to see illustrations.
http://www.atlaso.com/nowshipping.htm
For your instant info the releases are:
Single Door Box Car: EL (gray scheme), GN, AT&SF, NH (all orange scheme)
Gondola with Pipe Load: GTW, B&M, Ohio Seamless Tube, C&O
Plug Door Box Car: D&RGW, Chessie, D&H, WP
Tank Car: Hooker, Sunray, Union Tank, D&H
Flat Car w/ Lumber Load: Burlington, GN, WM, Trailer Train
Skeleton Car with Log Load: Crown Paper, Pacific Lumber, Sugar Pine Lumber, Westside Lumber
And before anyone has a fit as over on the other forum, the list prices for these cars is NOT that much higher than was under UMD. The key point to remember is that United Model Distributors is a distributor / wholesaler, not a manufacturer: they had the IR cars made for them. When Hobbyco picked up the remaining IR inventory from UMD, I believe their purpose was to deplete the remaining inventory, not continue the line. Hence, the $10-15 price range that many were picking up IR cars for.
It’s wonderful to see yet another company paying attention to the true majority of modelers in this hobby: non-scale traditional operators! What would be more wonderful would be is if Atlas had decided to include some [b[modern road names[/b] which are again, sorely lacking.
CSX, BNSF, Soo, CP Rail, Norfolk Southern, Canadian Pacific, GT, CV, Conrail, Southern, and BNSF are all road names I saw represented on a train TODAY. Yet Atlas has included not one single one of these road names. It was bad enough to have Lionel, K-Line and MTH ALL IGNORE these roads on lower cost stater traditionally sized items. I find it so incredibile that Conrail was one of the biggest railroads in the country and pro