Looking for an Atlas HO scale Alco S2, HO, DCC equipped, in Southern Pacific tiger stripes. Absolutely nobody seems to them in stock except this company. Not having heard of them before, wondering if anyone has dealt with them and what your experiences may have been? Active Powersports also says they have them but I have read lots of negative stuff about them taking your money when they don't have what you want in stock. Just want to be sure this isn't a similar outfit.
Search their address on a map program and let us know what you decide.
Atlas only shows they are producing that scheme on the s-4. Not s-2. Only the grey/red on the s-2. And only in the master series
i do see that site has been around for a while. Questions about them appeared in 2013 on forums and oddly thier page still has a 2007 copy right.
shane
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NVSRR oddly thier page still has a 2007 copy right
However, with the advent of the Internet, an industrial ecosystem in which content is constantly being incrementally updated, the addition of multiple copyright years begins to be less silly. It's still unnecessary, and it's all moot anyway because laws were passed decades ago in the U.S. and internationally that say you don't even need to put copyright marks on anything anymore. It's now just a convention. If you publish something, it's yours. If it came to an argument, the other guy would have to prove that he created something before you did, but a copyright mark in a digital world wouldn't do that anyway.
All that to say, the presence of an old copyright date doesn't NECESSARILY mean a page has been neglected or is run by thieves. It might mean -- perhaps worse -- that it is run by an English major.
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NVSRR Atlas only shows they are producing that scheme on the s-4. Not s-2. Only the grey/red on the s-2. And only in the master series i do see that site has been around for a while. Questions about them appeared in 2013 on forums and oddly thier page still has a 2007 copy right. shane
Yeah, I can't speak to that but this is from MTE.com's site. This is the DCC ready version. Their DCC equipped one was around $275.There was no indication of either being out of stock, backordered, or pre-ordering.
Atlas item number 10002445 was an S-2 in the SP Tiger Stripe scheme in the June 2016 run.
http://archive.atlasrr.com/HOLoco/arc-hos2.htm
The Atlas Archive site is useful for such information.
AEP528 Atlas item number 10002445 was an S-2 in the SP Tiger Stripe scheme in the June 2016 run. http://archive.atlasrr.com/HOLoco/arc-hos2.htm The Atlas Archive site is useful for such information.
Thanks, a 2016 run would be fine at this point.
reasearchhound AEP528 Atlas item number 10002445 was an S-2 in the SP Tiger Stripe scheme in the June 2016 run. http://archive.atlasrr.com/HOLoco/arc-hos2.htm The Atlas Archive site is useful for such information. Thanks, a 2016 run would be fine at this point.
I just tried modeltrainengines.com for the first time -- net is they did fine and I would use them again.
I too was looking for an Atlas loco from about 7 years ago (SAL RS-3, Atlas PN #10 001 935) and only modeltrainengines.com had it. Their web site is professional-looking/functioning, and I figured that paying via PayPal would offer protection. So, I went ahead and ordered from them.
They promptly emailed that the order was received. Within 2-3 days it was received by USPS, and arrived at my house within 5 days of ordering. Shipping was $9.99.
The product was in perfect condition. Very happy with it.
The only thing I can fault them on is that the order status link never showed the tracking number -- but I was on copy of emails from USPS that as the package progressed.
(If you lookup the return address on the package, it seems a residential neighborhood -- comes from a guy named Mike! But that did not matter -- good transaction).
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