Rick:
I was just about to give up and go home, I was beginning to think that the group had dissolved. I'm learning more and more as I am doing an inventory on my collection. I didn't know at first that A1G included locomotives also, now I do and find that I also own a few of those. I have taken over several other collections and I am just now starting to understand what I have in the entire collection, thanks to the inventory that I am still in the process of doing. I have found several cars with "Austria" stamped on them, but the name above that has been melted off. I understand this took place due to changes in ownership of the molds, and also due to canceled contracts with importers, would these cars fall into the A1G class, or should I only be concerned with the Atlas early products?
Could anyone suggest some good sites for me to checkout where I might be able to get item numbers for some of my inventory's rolling stock, and some of the locomotives? I have them IDed as to model, but I need to get the item numbers for the inventory that I'm in the process of doing. I have checked George's site along with the "Spook Show" site that Doug has to offer, both of which helped a bunch, but I am still having trouble with a few of the locomotives by Minitrix, Lima, Arnold, and Rivarossi. I know what they are, and who made them, but my inventory program is screaming out for item numbers, if I can't get the manufacturing companies item number, then the importer's item number would work, but that group has been thru more hands than I can count on all my fingers and toes! I'm also chasing numbers for older Rolling Stock, that started out in Austria and is now coming out of China by way of Great Planes, it is called "Industrial Rail" now, but for some reason everyone keeps lips sealed about items they once sold, and my referance material only goes back as far as 2000. I know everybody sold cars like the "Texaco" Tankcar at sometime in the past (I'm still not sure if my Texaco is the thick one or the thin one), I would like to be able to match the name on the bottom of the car, with their item number for that car, when they were the ones in charge of marketing that car. I figure if I am going to the trouble of doing a complete inventory on all my collection, then I need to match the Name and Road Number on the side of the car, to the Name of the Company stamped on the underside of the car, to that company's Item Number for that car, even if the box is long gone. Call me a bit picky, but that's the way I see it, am I being overzealous?
Sorry to be longwinded, but it is starting to get to me as the pile of those without proper numbers grows higher, and I near the end of my inventory process. Hopefully I'm just dedicated and not yet demented, but since I do my inventory work from ten at night to eight in the morning, who could tell?
Of course I do thank you for the welcome, and want all of you to know that I am glad to be here.
Jimi G.
