Have never seen any photos of these which I can recall. Any place where I could surf to, and view a couple units?
Boxcab, Here is a link. The S2's are close to the bottom of the page. http://www.alaskarails.org/glance/complete-roster.html
Paul, I absolutely will NOT ask you to make them in B&O and Chessie..... since I know you already have them in the plan.
You know, the first run road names are in the catalog that was given out in Springfield this past weekend: http://www.atlasrr.com/catalog.htm
Uh oh..... I see a "Southern" version in the first lineup. That means my "mad money" reserves are going to be taking a pretty big hit.. THANK YOU ATLAS!!! NCDaveD
Agreed, I would be in for multiples if they end up being the black switcher scheme or the Minuteman scheme. I'm not sure I would have a need for a "Blue dip" since I already have a South Boulder Modelworks S4 that is Blue dip.
Santa Fe blue. Hope future runs include zebra stripes and future Bachmann runs include the blue scheme so I can have S2's & 4's in each scheme.
I will say this again. Not to bash on Atlas specifically, but I feel that as a whole, mfgs build what they want to build, and take no regard as to what us comsumers are interested in. I say this because I have asked about specific products to various mfgs and the long and short story I get is "We wont build it because there is no market for it." I was told this by Atlas when I inquired about about them possibly making a CF7. The rep told me that was a ATSF specific loco and there weren't enough ATSF modelers to warrant making it. HUH? Do you know how many shortlines had them after ATSF got rid of them? That one model would be right up someones alley that models either ATSF or shortlines. I also asked Atlas again, as well as Life Like (before Walthers took them over) about making a chop nose GP7/9. Again, I got the repsonse "There weren't enough of them around to warrant building the model." Again, I was like WHAT! Atlas would have to do VERY little tooling to their GP7/9 chasis to make this work. They already have the cab and nose with the SD 24/26 model. So why cant they do this to the GP series? Kato is just as much as fault too. I have asked several times about doing a NCL and Kato basically told me that until they got rid of the warehouses full of CoLA trains that not nearly enough people bought, they would more than likely not be doing another prototype passenger train for a while. Then look what happened..............they brough out ANOTHER Zephyr. Sorry for my rambling, just thought I would throw my $0.02 in.
CoLA is not selling because of the orange paint issue. Modelers cannot run it with previous kato UP passenger car releases.
Cwwrman, look at Intermountain...2 runs of cab forwards, and a ton of tunnels....3 railroad locos (2 if you mconsidder the SSW as the SP) and they sold well...
