Now if Atlas would only produce the NE Standard Caboose that LL did so many years ago. I'd literally buy twenty of them. 15 in WM, 2 RDG, 2 NW and 1 misc.
Is it just me, or do those molded on roofwalks look like the best ever? I do like separate roof walk on higher end cars, but for molded on, it makes me wonder why so many other cars from years past felt like they had to have removable roof walks with plugs and then gave us about 3 scale feet depth to them. Ditto for the safety rails around the cabs on this model - Very scale/fine detail which looks good even though not separated from the car body. The only molding issue is the rivets, which seem a bit coarse.....
They really look good, the Trainman line might be the lower end of Atlas's range but it's not half bad. Sometimes in N scale I think well done molded on details can look better than oversize stand alone ones. Now, if they retool the Santa Fe caboose.
I'll third the roofwalk thing. I hope more people go to this in the future. I got 4 undecs, and none of them came with the end latter extensions (ok, as I was going to remove them anyways), or smoke stacks. All in all they are great. I hope that there will be more of this type of "lower end quality" models in the near future.
