BRAKIE IRONROOSTER Atlas is delivering hundreds of code 100 turnouts, but they are selling like crazy. One online store has gone from over 400 #6 turnouts to less than 40 in the space of a couple of weeks. Snap switches before Christmas were over 1000 and are now down around 300 at this same dealer. Paul,Find Atlas C83 track in stock good luck. Thousands of modelers no longer use C100 so,it may not be so funny after all.
IRONROOSTER Atlas is delivering hundreds of code 100 turnouts, but they are selling like crazy. One online store has gone from over 400 #6 turnouts to less than 40 in the space of a couple of weeks. Snap switches before Christmas were over 1000 and are now down around 300 at this same dealer.
Paul,Find Atlas C83 track in stock good luck.
Thousands of modelers no longer use C100 so,it may not be so funny after all.
Larry,
What's funny is that people are lambasting Atlas for not having product to sell, when they actually are selling lots of product. They are selling faster than they can make it, but they are selling and selling a lot.
Obviously, a lot of people still use code 100 since it sells so well. I have heard that it sells better than code 83. But it will soon be the case that code 100 #6 switches are sold out. I don't know when the last shipment of code 83 came in, but according to the Atlas schedule more is coming. But it will probably sell out quickly and be unavailable again.
This whole ongoing episode shows just how popular Atlas track is. And it shows that most people want the low price since there doesn't appear to be a major run on competitors' higher priced track.
Paul
richhotrain cmrproducts My local Hobby Shop has both c83 and c100 in stock! We just got 2 cases of c100 track in last week and the c100 turnouts are starting to arrive! You guys are just venting to hear yourselves talk! BOB H - Clarion, PA Bob, you are not very sympathetic to your fellow modelers, but I could care less since I switched from Atlas to Peco when Atlas could no longer deliver. But, in deference to our fellow modelers, I just checked three huge on line retailers - - MB Klein, Caboose Hobbies, and Hobbylinc - - - and none of them have Atlas Code 83 track in stock. For all we know, you could be making up that stuff about your LHS having Atlas Code 83 track in stock. Rich
cmrproducts My local Hobby Shop has both c83 and c100 in stock! We just got 2 cases of c100 track in last week and the c100 turnouts are starting to arrive! You guys are just venting to hear yourselves talk! BOB H - Clarion, PA
My local Hobby Shop has both c83 and c100 in stock!
We just got 2 cases of c100 track in last week and the c100 turnouts are starting to arrive!
You guys are just venting to hear yourselves talk!
BOB H - Clarion, PA
Bob, you are not very sympathetic to your fellow modelers, but I could care less since I switched from Atlas to Peco when Atlas could no longer deliver.
But, in deference to our fellow modelers, I just checked three huge on line retailers - - MB Klein, Caboose Hobbies, and Hobbylinc - - - and none of them have Atlas Code 83 track in stock.
For all we know, you could be making up that stuff about your LHS having Atlas Code 83 track in stock.
Rich
I visited Bob around the Christmas holidays and i saw track for sale.. just saying.
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IRONROOSTERThis whole ongoing episode shows just how popular Atlas track is. And it shows that most people want the low price since there doesn't appear to be a major run on competitors' higher priced track. Paul
I have notice MBK has a lot of restocking on Peco and ME flex track over the past few months since the storage of Atlas track.
I also recall on the old Atlas forum where Atlas replied that C100 is still their best seller..I had forgotten that in my reply-too early in the morning and without my first cup-well that's my hair brain excuse for old age forgetness.
Oddly enough Peco C100 switches and ME C100 flex track is cheaper then their C83..
Larry
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rrinker I visited Bob around the Christmas holidays and i saw track for sale.. just saying. --Randy
LOL
Randy, I was just venting to hear myself talk.
Alton Junction
It really all depends on what part of the country you live in and the important part: Did You or Your LHS, or distributor, pre-order. Atlas stated on their website months ago, they are filling and shipping all the pre-orders first and as others have stated, they are selling as fast as they arrive. It's really not that hard to figure out.
Jason at Rapido, is doing the same thing, with his ''Bendy Track'' He explained that on his Web site.
Frank
richhotrain rrinker I visited Bob around the Christmas holidays and i saw track for sale.. just saying. --Randy LOL Randy, I was just venting to hear myself talk. Rich
I agree a lot! ;-)
I'll tell you one thing, Bob, and that is, if I ever again need Atlas track, I am coming your way.
Spring better get here soon. You guys have been cooped up inside far too long.
Tom
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I just came from the only remaining hobby shop in Tucson, Arizona, The Hobby Place at Ace Hardware, and they are beginning to receive small shipments of Atlas code 100 Snap Track pieces, but nothing else from Atlas. Lots of Bachmann EZ Track and Peco flex track and turnouts in both code 100 and code 83 available.
tstage Spring better get here soon. You guys have been cooped up inside far too long. Tom
Spring is here! My Dafodils are 6 inches high already.
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It's been a tough and long winter for some apparently.
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