I too have started a new N scale project, it started as a test track but has become a small switch layout. Using 99% Atlas/Roco track, I found that the A1G track insulators have become brittle over the years (have used newer Atlas insulators). The next section to be built will be a small yard. Hopefully I can start to dust of all those Atlas, AHM and early Con Cor cars.
Michael
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 11:04:22 AM PDT, guitarrick_c1812 via Groups.Io <guitarrick_c1812@...> wrote:
Hi George,
? ?Currently will be starting a new N scale project. And plan to run my A1G cars. What's the sense of having them if you don't enjoy and run them ? ?It brings back great memories of growing up in the 60's and getting these cars new and adding them to your train set. Best memory was when my aunt Diana and uncle Gene gave me the CN Center depressed car with transformer load for Christmas. My uncle Gene was a bit of a jokster (in a good way) ?by placing the car in multiple boxes from the largest down to the smallest the Atlas plastic case would fit inside. Open one box only to find a smaller box inside. When I got down to that smallest box I was wondering what would possibly be inside ? Man was I floored when I discovered that neat car inside. Not sure if the release date of that car though it feel that was some where around 68/69? But that memory has lasted years. That to me as we one of the best Christmas presents I got during that time period.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:15 AM, G.J. Irwin
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Gang,
I've been slowly going through a backlog of print magazines from this year (don't ask!) and I see that model railroad feature stories still, well, feature A1G rolling stock.? Although they've long been surpassed by later releases, I think this is fascinating.?
The latest example I note is in the September/October 2018 issue of N Scale Magazine.? The article "Still Workin' on the Railroad" has photos which include the A1G Monon composite gondola (Catalog 2233).? And it's been some fifty years since it was first available!
My A1G cars have largely been retired from regular service, but how about yours?
