i think there are many milestones in a persons life. being born, birthdays, first step, first car, etc etc. for the milestone of “first Atlas” has come today. [8D][:D] HO U23B Providence & Worcester #2206. this thing is amazing. at the 15 mph mark on my throttle, it creeped along at a scale brisk walk, silently. [:)][:)][:)][:)]i can switch cars and barley move them. you could set this thing to run at its very slowest, go out to dinner, come back, and find it probably 10 feet from where it started. (never mind the melted power pack)the detail is so fine and delicate and just perfect. atlas is worth every penny of the insane retail that i didnt pay–$77.00 EBay.
thanks for reading my rant of meaninglessness.
GEARHEAD426
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Good for you. That is slow, too slow for the patience of my Grandson or his grandfather. Let us know when it makes it all the ways around the track for the first time.
its actually made many laps already, probably 20 scale MPH. (fast as you can really go on a 4x8)many beautifuly silent laps. my frieght cars wheels are louder than the loco. my one and only complaint–the gap in the plow is way too big. oh well. i think that the longest time ive modeled a spefiec railroad for was mabey a year or two with the New Haven. i hope i can stick with this. i think i will, because now i found a way to control my self-- the only really good models for P&W are made by atlas, and itll be atleast another year probably before i have enough money to get antoher atlas.(aneroxic wallet)itll probably be a dash 8. i like the big radiators. hopefully ill have DCC by then, so i can run a loco on each end of the train. im too scared to add MU hoses or weathering to this model.
GEARHEAD426
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don’t be scared to weather it, if you use chalks you can wash it off with a damp cloth if you stuff it… i have 3 Atlas’ that i recently weathered. go on give it a go gearhead.
james
Yee Haaw to that! Hope you have good fun with it. I have a Atlas UP GP40 that runs grrreat!
You have just found out what many of us have known for a long time. Atlas as a whole makes some mighty fine locomotives.
Isn’t it great when you get your hands on a good quality loco?
the more i look at this locomotive, the more i think im really going to enjoy my hobby a lot more now. the atlas has behaved well over my absoutley horrible trackwork, and the TV and loco can now co-exist. (whispering) its so quiet. who needs sound? i find myself listening to the silence.
all locos fall from heaven, all equal. Katos , BLIs and Atlases have parachutes, proto 2000s hit hard enough to crack the gears, athearns land hard enough to blow off a lot of the details, and bachmans hit hard enough to screw up the drive system. [:o)]
GEARHEAD426
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