Quality of recent Atlas diesels

Are Atlas diesels made in the past couple years as good as the ones made in the early 2000s? Those earlier ones had the smooth superior drive.

I have five Atlas locos in HO and they are quiet and super smooth. They were all released within the last two years.

I recently (2009 and 2010) bought two Atlas Gold series GP 40-2s and have been very well pleased with them. They both run (glide) very smoothly and quietly. It’s amazing how quiet the train room gets when I mute the sound. The only thing I don’t like are the couplers. I’m in the process of changing them to Kadees.

Joe