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I am sorry that I haven't been very active with my A1G accumulation
much this year. I still owe some pictures to a couple of fellows for
their web sites of cars in my accumulation. I haven't forgotten you,
just haven't had any time to get the digital camera to do them.

I hope to complete my A1G accumulation in 2005. I do have some extra
cars that I may sell or trade for cars I need.

Hope everyone has a good holiday.

Edward Bridges
A1G accumulator

Boy,
Did I have a unexpected but pleaseant surprise this past Saturday. My good friend Sal Galazzo who works down at The Freight Yard (A N Scale Specialty Store) said that he had something he wanted to give me and presented me with a A1G Indiana Harbor Belt 0-8-0 in mint condition. He told me all he had done to it was taken it apart to clean the mechanism and relubed it. Like a kid in a toy store, I had to try it out. For something that's all most as old as I am, this little yard switcher runs pretty darn good!. This is still in it's orginal plastic Atlas case with it's original white insert dated for 3-68. The thing that I kind of find funny about myself is that back when I first got into N scale till now, I've always been a diesel person. But lately, it seems that I got a growing interest in steam locos. By the time I discovered trains when I was young, steam was already gone. Though now I understand why all the older modelers before me enjoyed steam so much. It's all those moving mechanical parts on the outside that you don't get with diesels.
Rick
Merry Christmas to everyone here at the A1G yahoogroup!

Edward,

I would very much be interested in that NP car. How much do you want for it?
Do you have any extra M&StL Hopper cars?

Thank You for the response!!!

Jeff Sauer

I am searching high and low for a couple of the Northern Pacific

86' Pig Palace cars.

I have one spare car here I would be willing to part with, but I paid
quite a bit for it. It is essentially MIB.

Email me if your interested in this car.

I do have some other A1G cars as well that are extra and also have
some parts for cars.

Edward Bridges
A1G accumulator
Granger, TX

Greetings to the A1G Gang!

I started in 'N' with the classic Santa Fe Fairbanks Morse Freight set
received at Christmas 1969. I lived near both the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific mainlines and so my first allowance went to purchasing the GN "Loader
Scheme" boxcar.

I have been in and out of both HO and N in the past 35 years and I have
always kept an eye out for the early N items, from Atlas, MRC and Con Cor.

My modeling interests are of those days and I am searching high and low for
a couple of the Northern Pacific 86' Pig Palace cars. Anybody out there
willing to part with a couple or willing to point me in a good direction ? (other
than eBay)

Besides this request I look forward to reading past communications and being
part of the group!

Jeff Sauer

_jeffandkaty@... (mailto:jeffandkaty@...)

Coool Hope it went well

Hi all... I know most of you won't be able to hear this, but just in
case...

I am scheduled to appear on a local radio talk show this Friday the
12th at approximately 8:40 AM to be interviewed about the World's
Greatest Hobby of Model Railroading. This is in conjunction
with "Take Your Train to Work Day" which is part of the overall
National Model Railroading Month.

The station is WROC NewsTalk 950 (950 AM) here in Rochester, New York
and the show is "FirstTalk with Allan Harris."

Unfortunately it appears that they do not do a live web simulcast,
wouldn't that have been nice. Then you'd be able to listen in as I
risk my reputation yet again...

Cheers,
Your list-owner

Sorry if this is slightly off topic, but I recently purchased an
Atlas FA-1 (I know its newer than the A1G, but figured someone might
be able to help in this group). It is in regular Atlas packaging,
but the stock number is a bit of a mystery. It is Atlas stock number
#B-103, Baltimore & Ohio. This engine is basically MINT, never run
and no wear whatsoever on the wheels. It is really nice.

Anyone have any idea why these engines had such odd stock numbers?
How many different engines comprised this series?

Any help would be appreciated.

I am accumulating the entire A1G, with some more later Atlas stuff,
mainly locomotives (basically up to right before the Kato RS-3 came
out). I am about 98% of the way done with freight cars, 45% with
motive power and 35% with passenger cars.

Edward Bridges

I am looking to acquire two Atlas FM-C liner dummy units to add to my
accumulation.

I am in need of #2133, the Milwaukeee Road and #2135, the Southern
Pacific.

I am only missing these two in having a complete set of all five
powered and dummy engines.

Only interested in dummy engines in their original boxes with
original couplers if possible at a fair price.

Thanks,

Edward Bridges
Atlas A1G accumulator

Hi all--

Stole a few minutes to put up an image of the 2347 Suburban Propane
jumbo tank car with the logo missing. I found it at the Greenberg
Show in Chantilly earlier this month.

As I note on the revised jumbo tank car page, where the image can be
had, I think this is more of a curiosity than anything else. I don't
try to value it either.

I should check the archives to see if this particular car has been
discussed before; I'm pretty sure it has and that one other of the
gang owns one.

In other news, I bit the bullet to increase the storage space for the
overall irwinsjournal.com domain by 10x, to 200MB, so there will be
space for more images, even if there isn't the time right now to get
them out there. (Although I did finally get new pictures of the kids
up to a redesigned "Photo Section" area of the site.)

Cheers,
George
(your webmaster, etc.)

I will eventually find an original as I do buy duplicate stuff as I
find it.

That didn't take very long. I found a replacement car with a
complete box.


Isn't the internet useful???

Edward Bridges

That's right, convert it Back to the Original Rapidos!!! That's

the spirit!

Yep, got to get the M-T coupler into something I actaully run (I for
one do not run my A1G stuff [my girlfreind calles me a collector, but
I disagree as I buy a derilect and restore it if possible]).

I am only missing a handful of freight cars now. If you have any of
these you are willing to sell (preferably in their original boxes)
contact me:

2201b
2224a
2224b
2241b
2264b
2267
2271a
2271b
2281a
2281b
2281c
2302b
2364
2372
2381a
2392
2394
2395
2413
2415
2417
2423
2424
2435c
3002
3011
3012
3024


This is all I lack in the frieght car area. As always, looking for
these (I have some cars I am willing to trade for these).

Edward Bridges

Edward, this is all great stuff, but the one particular item that really made me smile was:

2174 PC GP40 (been coverted to kadee couplers, an easy fix)

That's right, convert it Back to the Original Rapidos!!! That's the spirit!

----

Meanwhile, I did pick up exactly one item relevant to the group at the National N Scale Convention, specifically at the Greenberg show. It's the Suburban Propane jumbo tank car (2347) with the Surburban Propane trademark missing on one side of the car. I believe that someone (Doug? Edward?) has brought up this particular "error" item before. It was worth the ten bucks (plus tax-- everyone at Greenberg collected sales tax) to get this novelty into the accumulation. I hope to add a scan of it without too much of a delay.

There were other A1G items out there, with prices ranging all over the board. Many were new in box looking, some, well, weren't.

Cheers,
George
(Your moderator/listowner etc.)

I have been on a locomotive spree lately. I recently picked up
several almost MIB A1G locomotives as well as a couple of A2G engines.

Those recent A1G additions are:
2141 ATSF SD45 (some handrails missing, otherwise in great shape)
2142 GM Demo SD45
2143 CB&Q SD45
2152 Monon RSC-2
2153 EL RSC-2 (blue cradle crumbling but engine is almost mint)
2171 ATSF GP40 (bad handrails, otherwise good shape)
2174 PC GP40 (been coverted to kadee couplers, an easy fix)

and for the gems (all three MIB):
4004 UP SW1500 cow
4005 CB&Q SW1500 cow
4011 ATSF SW1500 calf

I picked most of this stuff up off the internet auctions as well as a
few swap meets.

I do have some surplus A1G stuff, but not any extra motive power as
of yet.

Doug, I haven't forgotten you. I owe you some digital images of
several locomotives for your site. I will try to work on those.

I also have some digital images I need to make for George for his
site as well.

So much to do, not enough time to do it all...story of my life!

Edward Bridges
Granger, TX (didn't make the trip to Illinois after all)

That would work so I can tell what it is as they are stored on a
shelf with the end out to be seen.

I will eventually find an original as I do buy duplicate stuff as I
find it.

Thanks for the offer of a scan.

Edward Bridges

Edward,

The best I could do would be to scan it and send it to you and you could
print it on fairly thick paper. Of course, if you only want the genuine original,
sorry you must still search. :")

Regards,
Doug

I am looking for an insert for the packaging for the A1G single dome
tank car #2266, Hooker Chemicals.

I have the complete car and box with nest, just need the white
cardboard/paper insert.

Willing to purchase said item or trade some of my extra stuff for it.

Edward Bridges
Granger, TX

Hi everybody,

I have added a page on my site that lists the A1G locomotives that were
available in parts of the world other than North America. It is basically just a
list with images as I don't have any of these locos. At least it's something
though.

Of course, I welcome any additions or corrections.

www.members.aol.com/dgosha/AtlasWorldLocos.html

Regards,
Doug

So, Edward, staying in Texas? I think in your last post you said you were
going back to Illinois. Anyway, glad to hear you can devote some time to A1G. I'm
sure we'll all be looking forward to any pictures of variations you can
furnish.

Doug

After a hiatus from accumulating A1G equipment, I am back in the
swing of things. I am still in Texas and looking for more equipment
to add to my growing accumulation.

I am now concentrating on A1G motive power since I have almost every
freight car (about 96% of them with 80% of those MIB). I have
recently seen several good quality A1G locomotives on the internet
for sale, but the pocketbook opens only so far.

I hope to get digital images of the variations I have found that are
not covered in George Irwin's site with images. I have several. I
also have some motive power to add to Doug Gosha's site that he is
missing. Now that things have settled fdown here I can get back into
the hobby again.

Look for more on these variations on the Irwin site once I get the
images to him for use.

Edward Bridges