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Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« on: April 06, 2018, 03:15:38 PM »
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N GP38 Locomotive
N Extended Vision Cabooses
N Standard Cupola Cabooses
N 40' Containers

https://shop.atlasrr.com/d-462-april-2018-asmc-pre-orders.aspx

No high nose GP38s this time (still waiting for N&W as delivered ...)
More N&W cabooses for me I guess ...

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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2018, 03:25:45 PM »
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No high nose GP38s this time (still waiting for N&W as delivered ...)
More N&W cabooses for me I guess ...


did get a rerun of the 518xxx cabooses!

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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2018, 03:30:59 PM »
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Cause I need another KCS loco like I need a third eye.   :facepalm:
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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2018, 03:48:34 PM »
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Another month, my wallet is safe from Atlas.

I've kinda gave up that they will ever rerun what I want.

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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2018, 03:57:01 PM »
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Oh boy! NS 5642.
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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2018, 04:04:51 PM »
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Cause I need another KCS loco like I need a third eye.   :facepalm:

Thought you had multiple third eyes by now?
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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2018, 05:23:31 PM »
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I am curious what the chassis for the Loksound GPs will look like. I hope they can further miniaturize the board to add as much weight as possible.

If they did a half length board with a shallow, long sugar cube speaker enclosure with integrated LED at the end, it wouldn't take up any more room than the current DCC board.
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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2018, 05:32:11 PM »
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I am curious what the chassis for the Loksound GPs will look like. I hope they can further miniaturize the board to add as much weight as possible.

If they did a half length board with a shallow, long sugar cube speaker enclosure with integrated LED at the end, it wouldn't take up any more room than the current DCC board.

The ESU LokSound bards are pretty well packed with pretty much smallest components available (lots of SMD 0201 components).  Not sure if they can shrink them much further. As far as miniaturizing the speaker system, that will also be hard to do as the enclosure needs certain amount of volume for best sound reproduction.  But it would be nice if they could magically shrink the sound generating components.

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I've been thinking about this and it does appear that there might be some possibilities of shrinkage.  :)



The blue board is the Atlas S1 ESU decoder, and the green one is 73199.  Both decoders do have some fairly empty areas on the circuit board, so theoretically, they could be made shorter, leaving some room for a speaker (if one wants to mount the speaker inside the hood, not in the fuel tank).
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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2018, 05:37:20 PM »
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Crap. There are CR GP38s in the run.

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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2018, 06:03:04 PM »
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Crap. There are CR GP38s in the run.

Is it too much to hope for that they have the small fuel tank like the illustrations?

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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2018, 07:01:02 PM »
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I'm hopeful they will use a small tank like IM did on the SD40-s's since I'm guessing that is where they will place the speaker.

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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2018, 08:12:22 PM »
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I am more interested in their VO-1000 in O

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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2018, 09:25:18 PM »
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Is it too much to hope for that they have the small fuel tank like the illustrations?

Probably.  Otherwise I'm doomed.  I've several Atlas shells sitting on Lifelike mechanisms as I type.  While it would make DCC-ing my PC and CR GP38/38-2 fleet easier(4 of the 6 the mechs are not Walthers/LL ones) my wallet is in no shape to make that happen.

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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2018, 11:04:29 PM »
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The ESU LokSound bards are pretty well packed with pretty much smallest components available (lots of SMD 0201 components).  Not sure if they can shrink them much further. As far as miniaturizing the speaker system, that will also be hard to do as the enclosure needs certain amount of volume for best sound reproduction.  But it would be nice if they could magically shrink the sound generating components.

EDIT:
I've been thinking about this and it does appear that there might be some possibilities of shrinkage.  :)



The blue board is the Atlas S1 ESU decoder, and the green one is 73199.  Both decoders do have some fairly empty areas on the circuit board, so theoretically, they could be made shorter, leaving some room for a speaker (if one wants to mount the speaker inside the hood, not in the fuel tank).

The wired micro select is just about half the size the the Atlas board replacement. If they removed the wires and used a spring loaded contact system like is done with SIM cards, you would still have half the length of the hood to fit a 20x9x3mm sound enclosure. Think suggest cube but half the height and twice the length.

Cell phones didn't get really good sound until the engineers got creative with the enclosures. The iphone 4 has this strange "L" shape tunneled baffle with output pipe. I have been toying with the idea of doing the same using an open exhaust stack... Sugar cube hyperbaric chamber - speaker - resonance chamber - output tube/exhaust stack.
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Re: Atlas April N Scale Announcements
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2018, 12:07:25 AM »
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The wired micro select is just about half the size the the Atlas board replacement.

You have to remember that these board are 8.1mm wide, the Select Micro are 10.5mm wide, 2.4mm wider. That's how they get it shorter.
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