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TinyTurner

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Atlas/Lifelike releases?
« on: December 14, 2024, 01:15:17 PM »
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Did anything ever come of the Atlas Lifelike releases this year, did I miss them?
It's so secretive it's hard to tell if it ever happened.
Is it still a case of pre-order your trains and pray you'll get them?

I found the Atlas site list, it doesn't convince me it's real. 

I would be mostly interested in the GP-38's for the Milw and Milw favoured trains but I don't see the right orange and black deliciousness.

Especially after I unwittingly bought an early Likelike sample to repaint, thinking it was a proto  :facepalm:
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Re: Atlas/Lifelike releases?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2024, 01:22:56 PM »
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Atlas released updated FA's earlier this year. The GP38-2's are still pending.

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Re: Atlas/Lifelike releases?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2024, 01:41:17 PM »
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The Life-Like/Walthers GP38-2 is not the correct phase for Milwaukee. You want the original Atlas release with the square filter and chicken wire grills.

https://archive.atlasrr.com/NLoco/arc-ngp38-2.htm

https://archive.atlasrr.com/Images/NLocomotives/ngp382/0607/47638_TQ.jpg

The new mechanism will provide Sound and a more accurate fuel tank however.
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Re: Atlas/Lifelike releases?
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2024, 02:18:32 PM »
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They’ve announced FA1s with large numberboards, which is a tooling modification of the original Life-Like model.
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Re: Atlas/Lifelike releases?
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2024, 03:43:53 PM »
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So it turns out I have some surplus GP-38's to move on, and now I'm looking for the correct phase units to fill the gap.
If anyone's interested  :facepalm:

I've never shipped overseas,  but you learn by doing.