Anyone remember these advertisements and the year on these? OOPS! I missed one.. Tom 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
I have a feeling I have seen most of these in old issues of Model Railroader before, although I cannot remember which. I think the first two are from the mid 70's, the third: the late 70's-early 80's, 4th-6th: the early 90's, and the last one late 70's.
In those days ads like these were the only way we got to know what new items were coming out, we found out what was available when it was available not pre-announced on the internet months or even years before the manufacturers had any idea when they would have them themselves. No pre-orders or reservations either.
#6 is likely 1995, maybe 1996. They date from the time I just started to get into N and almost went for Rio Grande based on the GP7 scheme.
The two DRGW locomotives in picture 5 were my very first locomotives....... I cant decide if they are old or I am....
Definitely 4 & 5 from back when I was just starting the hobby. To this day, then it was finances and now it is project backlogs, I still want one of those CP GP-30's.
Those Atlas geeps made in Austria were actually pretty well detailed, although the handrails were ungodly thick and the mechanisms didn't compare to what we have today. Prices have changed a bit, to put it mildly.
I remember saving up $25 back in 1979 for an Atlas Santa Fe GP9 and they were just new in the hobby shops here in Australia then. At least we knew they would be pretty good (for the day) because they were made by the repectable firm of Roco and not some anonymous factory in China.
I never saw any of those as I did not even start to really read any model train magazines until 1999. Before that, in the mid 1970's I only bought how to magazines. All engines or rolling stock I bought or saw, was what was in the local train stores.
Oh man am I feeling old. I remember seeing all those ads in either Model Railroader or Railroad Model Craftsman magazines. Thanks for posting them Tom, it was a nice walk down memory lane
Model Railroader on the inside back cover, where Atlas always had their advertisements, in those days. December, 1969: Doug
