Atlas announces 3rd release of 40' PS-1, with 8' doors

[H Lee]

The color early pics I have in my NYC library all show red running boards. If you like, I can reference them for you.

If by 'reference' you mean 'post' so they can be seen, or 'post a link' where they can be seen, yes please do.

[Robbman]

There are several pictures that depict a black running board, which wouldn't really be in sync with a red roof.
Jason

Depends on if the appliances were installed before or after painting...

[wcfn100]

Depends on if the appliances were installed before or after painting...

I guess if there was ever an exception to any 'rules' this would be the car, but I can't think of another case where the roof of a box car was painted the body color and the running board was painted black.

Jason

[Cory Rothlisberger]

Correct.  I just meant that getting the door color right on that particular car is probably a lot more important than
2 scale feet on the width of the door.  If the door were the right color, but the wrong width, it would be a "lesser"
error.

This is still where you lose me. The NYC had a small group of Pacemaker Service cars with 8' doors. Our model has an 8' door...

[bbussey]

The photo Jason posted is pretty definitive from what I can see.  This was a small class of 25 cars.  I don't know the history of the class specifically, whether these cars always were in interchange service or not.  But the scheme on the Atlas model is of a car in interchange service, as is the car in the photo.  The roof, roofwalk, stirrups, grabs and ladders in the photo are black.  One has to assume the brakewheel is also, which was the Pacemaker standard.  It doesn't matter if the overwhelming majority of the Pacemakers featured a red roof -- it only matters whether or not this small class of Pacemakers did.  The evidence suggests this small class featured a black roof during the era they were in interchange service.

[bbussey]

To those SPFs lamenting the fact that there is no Pennsylvania in the first release of cars with eight-foot doors ... as with the first PS-1 release, Prototype N Scale Models is piggy-backing a special-run three-pack -- the Pennsy X48!  As with the silver Western Pacific cars, the cost plus S&H will be the same as the MSRP of the stock Atlas model.  Here is the press release from earlier today:

I am excited to announce my very first Pennsylvania Railroad car!
 
This will be an X48 40' PS-1 boxcar with an 8' door, to be released with the Atlas regular production cars around November 2013.  I will be doing three road numbers for this run.
 
The prototype was built in February 1954 and was the very first PRR car to use the "Shadow Keystone" logo.  I have a B&W jpeg of the prototype if you want to see it.
 
If you have yet to see any of the new Atlas PS-1 cars you have missed a real treat.  Incredible detail, metal wheels, body mounted couplers, Superb!
 
My three car set will sell for $59.95 (Atlas list price on the new PS-1 cars is $26.95)
I will have some single cars from the set available for $20.95 each.
 
Shipping/Handling is $7.00, I accept checks, money orders, PayPal and credit cards.

Prototype N Scale Models^TM
by George Hollwedel
2108 Buffalo Tundra Dr
Austin, TX 78754-5960
512-579-0539
 

[skm]

To those SPFs lamenting the fact that there is no Pennsylvania in the first release of cars with eight-foot doors ... as with the first PS-1 release, Prototype N Scale Models is piggy-backing a special-run three-pack -- the Pennsy X48!  As with the silver Western Pacific cars, the cost plus S&H will be the same as the MSRP of the stock Atlas model.  Here is the press release from earlier today:

I am excited to announce my very first Pennsylvania Railroad car!
 
This will be an X48 40' PS-1 boxcar with an 8' door, to be released with the Atlas regular production cars around November 2013.  I will be doing three road numbers for this run.
 
The prototype was built in February 1954 and was the very first PRR car to use the "Shadow Keystone" logo.  I have a B&W jpeg of the prototype if you want to see it.
 
If you have yet to see any of the new Atlas PS-1 cars you have missed a real treat.  Incredible detail, metal wheels, body mounted couplers, Superb!
 
My three car set will sell for $59.95 (Atlas list price on the new PS-1 cars is $26.95)
I will have some single cars from the set available for $20.95 each.
 
Shipping/Handling is $7.00, I accept checks, money orders, PayPal and credit cards.

Prototype N Scale Models^TM
by George Hollwedel
2108 Buffalo Tundra Dr
Austin, TX 78754-5960
512-579-0539
 

Awesome! so where do I put my money down? I don't see a clickable link to do that?

[bbussey]

You can email to proto.nscale@yahoo.com.  They accept PayPal if I remember correctly.

[chicken45]

Ha! Thanks, Bryan, again for posting that here. It all added up in my head just before you posted it here in this thread. I was about to do the same until you did it.
I just emailed and put in a preorder.


I requested the builder's photo that George mentioned. It's a 2MB shot with a high resolution. Looks great!

[Chris333]

builder's photo

Does it have a build date?  I gotta watch out with PS-1's in 1948...

[H Lee]

Does it have a build date?  I gotta watch out with PS-1's in 1948...

Build date of Feb 1954.

[wcfn100]

Does it have a build date?  I gotta watch out with PS-1's in 1948...

This should be the same car.

http://www.billspennsyphotos.com/photos/Request-Gallery/PRR%20X48%20Box%20Car%2047003%20E20528%20Blt%202-54%20800x.jpg


Jason

[Chris333]

Ahhh  too new.

[skm]

This should be the same car.

http://www.billspennsyphotos.com/photos/Request-Gallery/PRR%20X48%20Box%20Car%2047003%20E20528%20Blt%202-54%20800x.jpg


Jason

 That pic looks like these cars featured the 'SK1a' scheme of the road number painted in script/calendar numbers as opposed to the 'SK1b' scheme of roman serif road numbers, cool!

[bbussey]

What's not correct about it?  That's a photo of the actual prototype.  If the model matches that, it's accurate.