Atlas 3001943 ATLANTIC COAST LINE Streamlined Passenger Car, 3001944 Streamlined Coach & Diner, 3001945 Streamlined Sleeper Nash County limited NEW

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Product Title: Atlas 3001943 ATLANTIC COAST LINE Streamlined Passenger Car, 3001944 Streamlined Coach & Diner, 3001945 Streamlined Sleeper Nash County limited NEW

Manufacturer: Atlas

Scale: O

Condition: Item Condition: C-10, Box Condition P-10

Operational Status: This item is brand-new and is assumed to be fully operational according to the manufacturer's specifications.

TCA Condition/Grading Standards: C-10: Mint—Brand New: all original; unused and unblemished.

TCA Box Grading Standards: P-10: Mint—Brand New: Complete and all original as manufactured and unused.

Photos: Stock

Manufacturer Information:

3001943 — Atlas 3001943 ATLANTIC COAST LINE Streamlined Passenger Car PREMIER Silver/Purple O Scale

The lightweight, streamlined passenger car was a product of the Great Depression. While the heavyweight steel cars built in the teens and 1920s were dependable and often luxurious, their dark colors and solid, battleship-like exteriors did little to lift the spirits at a time when the entire nation needed a pick-me-up. As noted railroad historian John H. White, Jr. put it in The American Railroad Passenger Car, Some hope during these gloomy years was offered by a new design concept called streamlining. It presented a sleek, modern image of speed and innovation. What had been an obscure technical term in aerodynamics was made into a household word through an astute publicity campaign mounted by several railroad traffic departments. It succeeded in creating a general interest in railroading practically unknown since the opening of the first transcontinental line According to Railway Age, For the first time in many years, the words sold out re-entered the ticket clerks vocabulary.

But as White notes, the real change in passenger car construction was in weight, not the streamlined appearance that was largely for show: Weight, not air friction, was the chief obstacle to economic operation. Unlike the heavyweights, the lightweight cars that debuted in the mid- 1930s featured sides and roofs that contributed to their structural strength, eliminating the need for the heavyweights massive underframes. Trucks went from six wheels to four, non-revenue space was decreased by using a vestibule on only one end of the car, and lighter, stronger, more rust resistant steel alloys came into widespread use. A typical new lightweight could be 15-20 tons lighter than the heavyweight car it replaced.

The majority of lightweights were 8085 long, which scales out to about 21 in O gauge. Many O gauge modelers, however, find cars of this length impractical, as they require large curves and create long trains that can overwhelm a typical-sized layout. For those reasons, our Premier lightweights are about 70 scale feet in length — reproducing the look and feel of prototype streamliners in a model that will round O-42 curves with ease and look at home on most scale-detailed O gauge layouts.

Features:

• Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Bodies
  
• Stamped Metal Floors
  
• Detailed Car Undercarriage
  
• Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
  
• Metal Wheels and Axles
  
• Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  
• Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  
• Needle-Point Axles
  
• (2) Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
  
• O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
• Constant Voltage Overhead LED Interior Lighting
  
• End-of-Car Diaphragms
  
• Separate Metal Handrails
  
• Detailed Car Interiors
  
• Sliding Baggage Car Doors
  
• Detailed Brake Wheel
  
• 1:48 Scale Proportions
  
• Unit Measures: 19 x 2 7/16 x 3 1/2
  
• Operates On O-42 Curves

3001944 — Atlas 3001944 ATLANTIC COAST LINE 70' Streamlined Coach & Diner Passenger Car PREMIER Silver/Purple O Scale

3001945 — Atlas 3001945 ATLANTIC COAST LINE 70 Streamlined Sleeper Nash County Passenger Car PREMIER Silver/Purple O Scale

Features:

• Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Bodies
  
• Stamped Metal Floors
  
• Detailed Car Undercarriage
  
• Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
  
• Metal Wheels and Axles
  
• Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  
• Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  
• Needle-Point Axles
  
• (2) Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
  
• O Scale Kadee-Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
• Constant Voltage Overhead LED Interior Lighting
  
• End-of-Car Diaphragms
  
• Separate Metal Handrails
  
• Detailed Car Interiors
  
• Sliding Baggage Car Doors
  
• Detailed Brake Wheel
  
• 1:48 Scale Proportions
  
• Unit Measures: 19 x 2 7/16 x 3 1/2
  
• Operates On O-42 Curves