Wow, I consider that big news.
Before I joined this forum, I spent a fair amount of time on the Atlas forums, and I am still a registered member over there. That is a shame and a somewhat troubling omen.
At one time, I had three LHS within a 15 minute drive of my house where I could get a lot of great advice. Once the last of those three LHS closed, I began to rely more and more on this forum for expertise. Quite frankly, I would be lost at times without this forum. This forum is a constant source of expertise for me.
Nuts, I am getting depressed.
Rich
Alton Junction
I guess i will have more time to work on the layouts !
They say that cost of the forums is alot. . They say that money will be spent on more R&D .
Hopefully that means moving production to the USA ! ?
I will miss the Atlas forums.
CHARTER MEMBER OF THE MILWAUKEE FALLEN FLAG MODEL TRAIN CLUB . I COLLECT HO, N , O-3rail & On30 Trains & run them ! I Use KATO HO & N scale Track . I also Use Lionel Fast Track ! I change track layouts Often !
I dont really go on that forum either. So its not really a big deal to me either.
No problem for me. I don't go there much anyway. Too many guys there who pick fights over nit-picky stuff for my taste.
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They have an announcement to that effect on the their forum site. And yes, it's money.
I never used their forums since they are scale specific, but it's a sign of the economic times.
Paul
Just heard this today, but as of May 1 Atlas is going close and shutdown their online model train forums. I guess Atlas no longer wants the expense of running and administrating their online forums.