State Of Maine Cars really nice !

[Nato]

   Recieved two of the State Of Maine plug door cars from the latest run a BAR and an NH car. All I can say is Wow! Fantastic detailing,wonderful work. Thanks ESM for producing these. My 5 other  foob State Of Maine cars are now officially retired . Time to get out my Life Like BAR BL2's or my IM BAR blue and gray F-3 A Units and run a train. Nate Goodman (Nato). SaltLake, Utah.

[71jeep]

X2 wonderful cars can not wait to get the layout going to and see them on the rails.

[bbussey]

Thanks guys.  Glad to see them finally reaching the masses.

More to come.  Watch the first week of October for the announcement of the next two releases, scheduled for 1st quarter 2011 and 2nd quarter 2011 respectively.

[up1950s]

The 3 I ordered came today , how nice to get prototypical correct cars and schemes , with nothing to complain about , just super . Thanks .

[bbussey]

... with nothing to complain about ...

Rich,

Well, maybe a minor thing.  I've been getting reports that some of the trip pins are too low.  The top of the pin is even with the top of the coupler knuckle.  Pushing the pins up in the knuckle about .020" to match the current MTL practice solves the problem, as does the long-standing MTL adjustment procedure of bending the trip pin more.

[Mark5]

Alrite, I caved and ordered one of the SOM.

Had to rationalize this as a trade up from a MTL version*.

Mark
*MTL version goes to auction

[bobdobbs]

http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=62151

[Mark5]

http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=62151

Nice pix! FWIW, the trip pins are a super simple fix (N scale coupler 101)

Mark