New Atlas Announcement

Well,
Atlas just announced their newest engine.

Big surprise with the Dash 8 Wide Cabs.

See all the details here Dash 8 Page

Brian

[ 07 May 2002, 14:59: Message edited by: Brian K ]

 

If they're as nice as the HO ones, you N scaler's are in for a treat....I'd be jelous if I didn't already have mine

 

We all kind'a knew it was coming (when Atlas displayed a wide-cab style fuel tank on their LMX unit), but it still deserves a YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAWWW!!!!!!

Russ

 

Ouch!!!!! My wallet is in some serious pain... For once I am glad these are a few months away so I can raise some funds. I just bought 2 Dash-8s yesterday and my Superliners are in the mail. Isn't it great to be in N-scale! I think these are really the best of times.

Bryan

 

Time for a nother part-time job this summer. sigh. The Amtrak ones would look so nice with my P42s.

 

They would look great together, but I wonder if they will run OK together. I tried out my Atlas B36-7 with the P42's, assuming that the same new slow motor will be used. The B36-7 ran way slower than the P42's. Switching to the older, faster motor might make it too fast for the P42's. My 2 to 2.7% grades won't tolerate much speed variation in a lashup (breaks traction). Any ideas (besides switching to DCC)?

Russ

 

About the only thing I know is to put the faster one in front. I would guess though it depends on how big the speed variation is. I have heard about and not tried a light bulb in parallel? Or perhaps series. I'm not sure, and not sure how well it works.

 

OK, that's great! NOW LET'S HAVE A RE-POWERED F40PH!

 

i just thought of something for all those blasted ns fans out there. take a dash 8 shell from atlas and ct the cab and front of the frame and do the same to a kato dash 9 and now put the atlas cab on the kato and vio...viol.. whatever the heck that french word is and you get a dash 9 standard cab that the ns has and only the ns.

 

Or you could use the bachmann Dash 8 40C Cab.

Brian

 

bachmann's detail is junk and doesn't match up as well as a kato and atlas match up. lots of chopping with a bachmann, whereas with kato and atlas just a couple cuts and you have it.

 

You're dead-on about that Mopie!

 

I was going to add a bachmann wide cab & air conditioner to an Atlas Dash8-40B to make it a Dash8-40BW, but I guess I will wait until October instead.

Thanks to Atlas I am running out of kitbashing projects!

Maby an SP SD40-2M MK rebuild, built from an SDP45 hulk...

Brian