Looks like the Atlas Forums have been removed completely from their website. I was just one there a week ago, I know they had closed them for new discussions and comments, but I thought I recall they said they'd keep them open for future reference and such... That is too bad because there was a lot of good discussions over there. Oh well... http://forum.atlasrr.com/
Unfortunate. There was a ton of great info there, I agree. Wonder why they were removed? Can't imagine it was costing them money to keep a bunch of dead web pages around.
Ah, Atlas forum gone! That motorvated me to look back at what I have posted down through the years on Atlas forum SUNDAY NIGHT FOTO FUN. I kept a list of most of the things I put up. 2/15/04 Pulpwd FT-V, FT-6 2/22/04 Conoco/Magnolia/Phillips 66 3/6/04 Santa Fe company service tankcar, class TK-N, Koppers tankcar 3/14/04 Linde “box tank” SNFF 8/1/04 Magnola gas station, ack, acl For SNFF 8/8/04 acn Nit Pickers Union Hall; StLB&M mill gondola kitbash SNFF 2/27/05 adm.jpg “Transverse air reservoir” SNFF 3/13/05 RR-57 insulated box adn.jpg for SNFF 3/20/05 GA-111 for SNFF 3/27/05 Mounting MTL on Bachmann “China GA-113 Bachmann 3-bay LO adu 4/17/05 5/1/05 Lattimore’s barn 5/15/05 GA-94 5/22/05 BX-44 5/30/05 GA-93 1st Airslide® from Atlas 6/5/05 GA-105 from Atlas 6/12/05 shotgun house 6/19 fathers day dad’s bridge 6/26 RR54 Bachmann 7/3 Sears catalog house kitbashed 1- story 7/10 SNFF Behind the Scenes! 7/11 mockup 7/17? brush to tree 7/24? Rapido GA-52 couplers afd 8/7? diorama start afc 8/14 RR-33 reefer Gypsum expanded metal running boards aff 8/21 afv warehouse interior afw Rapido cov hoppers GA-52 9/4 afx diorama afz 4 reefers on cold storage spur afy junk aga storage yard pier beginning agc Fall05? little people for my Paradise Palms agk Feb12,06 power plant for Austin layout agv for SNFF Progress on Paradise Palms pleasure pier nightclub. CONCRETE TIES. Sunday Night Foto Fun 6/4/6 J J Stone Sunday Night Foto Fun 6/11/6 Messy & Neatnik Sunday Night Foto Fun 6/18/6 Hervil Saw Shop and Hardware Sunday Night Foto Fun 6/24/06 Johnston High School SNFF July 2, 2006 First State Bank of Johnston, Texas SNFF July 9, 2006 Four minimal structures Johnston HS annex, work clothes, saw shack, half house. SNFF July 16, 06 Blucher mansion prototype & mockup SNFF July 23, 06 interior shop details for implement dealer SNFF July 30, 06 Wayne Implement SNFF August 6 Lumberjack Cookhouse interiors SNFF August 13 Signs for Lumberjack Cookhouse and Johnston SNFF August 20- Lumberjack Cookhouse structure completed SNFF August 27 Reforestation/ Dog on a train. SNFF September 3 Eastwood theater SNFF Oct. 15 finally installed LUMBERJACK COOKHOUSE SNFF Oct.22, 2006 Doodlebug at Johnston 5/13/07 5th try on cooling tower June 10, 2007 Tower7th.JPG /IceTrucks.JPG July 1, 2007 Peco turnout test section July 22This will be the “mile long causeway” to reach the island. July 28, 2007 August 4, 2007 Ground Zero for Urban Layout Renewal. December 9 Phillips 66 bulk oil distributer, scratchbuilt from prototype at Sealy, TX------- 2008 June 8, 2008 "Sue sells seashells by the seashore." June 15 Beach house June 22 Aransas Pass Conn Brown harbor June 29 Alley house July pier lighting Aug 10,08 commercial kitchen fittings December 08 rolling causeway section Jan.11.09 snff Transcontinental diorama & telephone poles Jan 18 G Gauge- Large scale church from 1947 Feb? Work cars June7 scratchbuilt piano to go inside pier nightclub June 14, 2009 This week’s modeling project has been painting figures for a beach scene. June 21 N scale band for Paradise Palms pier nightclub. June 28, 2009 RR-21 SFRD #20168 ; kitchen; seagulls July 5, 2009 Paradise Palms pier nightclub. Over 80 figures. Scene looking down (unfinished) pier, causeway, beach etc. Sunday July19 RR21s-hiangle; RR21 #20301 Sunday July 26, 2009 RR-47 #4050; diamond grid roofwalk Sunday Aug 2 Beach expansion; big guns, How angle was cut; Swimsuit figures "Guns of Navaronne" style WWII shore defense bombardment bunker located at my prototype scene, to be modeled on layout August 9 Furring strips August 16 Swingdown amusement district section August 23 sections moved in/ background on 9’ easel AUGUST 30 Silo shot; silo background in place, elevator mockup w background September 6, 2009 Bay background Cotton concentration bg September 13, 2009 Bay point background test, mockup, backside Sept 20 Imperial sugar background pix Thanksgiving Trainbd/ Nov 29 2009 Causeway freight December 20, 2009 junk compose Jan 2010 DemFixed w mammoth bone; EPortFix w real rail June 6 2010 track laid for Demara yard DemTailHi DemLadrHi June 27 new DskletonE shows Demara visible staging yard as separate section Sept 4-5,2010 (elevator, offshore oil rig, banana ship cutout, shed mockup) Dec.19 a DANCE school, it would be appropriate to have a gaggle of 5th grade girls in leotards Jan. 9, 2011 Roof made from mop part February 20, 2011 Demara-Mallory control panel Feb27, 2011 Tinytown (1955); lay73- staging only; Norton bros- plan view Sept 5, 2011 model of a layout. Oct.2 rollaround table for working Oct 30 Planning Vonny’s house 2012 Jan.29 MDC 36’ double-sheath 4-truss rod boxcar This is also a record of how I have used Trainboard RAILIMAGES, since that is how I almost always posted pics on Atlas. Nearly all of my images are still on my Railimages site. Thanks Trainboard. Gee, I ought to send more support. I supported Atlas long enough by buying their cars, loco and track.
As I recall, they were indeed going to keep those pages available for reference. I don't remember any stated time limitation.
When the great library at Alexandria, Egypt was distroyed I was very upset. However, I eventually was able to let it go. Now this, many of us invested a lot of time there. Sad to see it gone in a poof of electrons. But, there are models to be built and trains to chase. (Man, am I really that old? In an earlier life I was also Napolion.)
It may not really be gone... I got a server time-out error which doesn't concern me as much as a 404 error would. I remember there was a period last year where I thought they removed it but it did come back within a few days. Cross fingers. -Mike
I doubt atlas hosts their own server, more than likely they used a 3rd party to host their site and forums. The forums probably got taken down to eliminate a bill for something that was now useless bits and bytes taking up space on a hard drive somewhere.
Seems as though an operation as large as Atlas would be on a dedicated server, with multiple storage and backup abilities in many, many terabytes. Their old forums shouldn't have taken up that much space, so hope it is at least backed up somewhere.
Or something that happened to me, I had a forum that I no longer used so I wasn't updating the software. Eventually I got a warning from my hosting company that my site was using 80% of the server resources and they shut me down. I had to go and update the old forum software to correct it. I would have just deleted it but had to make sure that was the problem and once it was fixed, just left it. Next time I'll just delete the forum. Jason
It probably was done as a cost saving measure. Too bad there was a lot of great information there intermixed with the less than informational stuff.
There is still some 3ds here, for the history: http://web.archive.org/web/20131206154306/http://forum.atlasrr.com/
