Product Title: Atlas 30138651 UNION PACIFIC A Unit E6 Locomotive, 30138652 B Unit, 30138653 B Unit, 3001959 4 Pack Passenger Car, 3001960 2 Car Set, 3001961 2 Car Set, 3001962 2 Car Set O SCALE 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:
30138651 — Atlas 30138651 UNION PACIFIC A Unit E6 Locomotive PREMIER Yellow/Red/Gray O Scale
Features Include:
- The perfect match for our Streamlined Passenger Cars!
- Remotely Controlled Proto-Couplers
- Illuminated Number Boards
- Directionally Controlled Headlights
- Lighted Marker Lights
- Operating Smoke Units
- Proto-Sound 3.0 With The Digital Command System Featuring: Passenger Station Proto-Effects
- Unit Measures:53 x 2 1/2 x 3 1/2
- Operates On O-42 Curves
Features Include: Features Include: 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: The 1930s ushered in a sea change in the concept of passenger car design. As the United States was striving to come out of the Great Depression, images of renewed power and progress became those of speed, technical innovation, and forward motion exemplified by the Streamline Moderne school of industrial design. Aerodynamic shapes such as horizonal fluting and rounded or curved surfaces made of smooth, bright materials such as welded and polished stainless steel began to replace the staid and solid concepts that had governed passenger car designs since the turn of the century. While safe, smooth riding, and often quite luxurious, the riveted side framing and cover plates and massive steel underframes (supporting a floor of poured concrete in most cases) could cause a typical Heavyweight passenger car to weigh as much as 1 ton per linear foot! The Streamliners, by contrast, eliminated heavy underframes and adopted methods of construction where the entire car body and roof contributed to the structural integrity much the same as what is now referred to as unibody construction. The use of lighter materials both inside and out also contributed to these cars weighing as much as 20-25 tons less than that of a comparable heavyweight. Gleaming aluminum fixtures, cut and frosted glass, and even decorative celluloids replaced the dark woods and veneers and heavy cast iron and brass fittings heretofore common to car interiors further reducing weight and contributing to a modern, glamourous style which was readily accepted by the traveling public. The lighter designs proved to be much more economical as well and were adopted by Pullman-Standard and a newcomer to passenger car design the Budd Company of Philadelphia. Since 1913, Budd was a well-known supplier of auto body stampings but by 1930, rapidly became a major force in railroad passenger car design. Budd was among the first to grasp the potential of stainless steel, however the inability of stainless steel to be fabricated with normal welding techniques was an issue. Budds chief engineer, Colonel Earl J.W. Ragsdale, spent five years developing the key process needed to make stainless into a viable structural material: the patented Shotweld electric welding process. From the groundbreaking Pioneer Zephyrs in 1934 through the Amfleets of the1980s, Budd designed cars have carved out a unique and lasting legacy which carries on today in cars produced by Bombardier. Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock is prototypically accurate and includes a wide array of car types, from box cars, to passenger cars to cabooses. In addition to being intricately detailed, Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock features crisp painting and lettering, perfectly recreating the colorful paint schemes found on their real-world counterparts. Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock is ready to run right out of the box, so you can go straight from the hobby store to using the model in your fleet. The primary mission of Atlas is to produce and offer to the public, multiple scale lines of high quality, model railroad products based on prototype information. Atlas philosophy is based on a dedicated The 1930s ushered in a sea change in the concept of passenger car design. As the United States was striving to come out of the Great Depression, images of renewed power and progress became those of speed, technical innovation, and forward motion exemplified by the Streamline Moderne school of industrial design. Aerodynamic shapes such as horizonal fluting and rounded or curved surfaces made of smooth, bright materials such as welded and polished stainless steel began to replace the staid and solid concepts that had governed passenger car designs since the turn of the century. While safe, smooth riding, and often quite luxurious, the riveted side framing and cover plates and massive steel underframes (supporting a floor of poured concrete in most cases) could cause a typical Heavyweight passenger car to weigh as much as 1 ton per linear foot! The Streamliners, by contrast, eliminated heavy underframes and adopted methods of construction where the entire car body and roof contributed to the structural integrity much the same as what is now referred to as unibody construction. The use of lighter materials both inside and out also contributed to these cars weighing as much as 20-25 tons less than that of a comparable heavyweight. Gleaming aluminum fixtures, cut and frosted glass, and even decorative celluloids replaced the dark woods and veneers and heavy cast iron and brass fittings heretofore common to car interiors further reducing weight and contributing to a modern, glamourous style which was readily accepted by the traveling public. The lighter designs proved to be much more economical as well and were adopted by Pullman-Standard and a newcomer to passenger car design the Budd Company of Philadelphia. Since 1913, Budd was a well-known supplier of auto body stampings but by 1930, rapidly became a major force in railroad passenger car design. Budd was among the first to grasp the potential of stainless steel, however the inability of stainless steel to be fabricated with normal welding techniques was an issue. Budds chief engineer, Colonel Earl J.W. Ragsdale, spent five years developing the key process needed to make stainless into a viable structural material: the patented Shotweld electric welding process. From the groundbreaking Pioneer Zephyrs in 1934 through the Amfleets of the1980s, Budd designed cars have carved out a unique and lasting legacy which carries on today in cars produced by Bombardier. Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock is prototypically accurate and includes a wide array of car types, from box cars, to passenger cars to cabooses. In addition to being intricately detailed, Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock features crisp painting and lettering, perfectly recreating the colorful paint schemes found on their real-world counterparts. Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock is ready to run right out of the box, so you can go straight from the hobby store to using the model in your fleet. The primary mission of Atlas is to produce and offer to the public, multiple scale lines of high quality, model railroad products based on prototype information. Atlas philosophy is based on a dedicated The 1930s ushered in a sea change in the concept of passenger car design. As the United States was striving to come out of the Great Depression, images of renewed power and progress became those of speed, technical innovation, and forward motion exemplified by the Streamline Moderne school of industrial design. Aerodynamic shapes such as horizonal fluting and rounded or curved surfaces made of smooth, bright materials such as welded and polished stainless steel began to replace the staid and solid concepts that had governed passenger car designs since the turn of the century. While safe, smooth riding, and often quite luxurious, the riveted side framing and cover plates and massive steel underframes (supporting a floor of poured concrete in most cases) could cause a typical Heavyweight passenger car to weigh as much as 1 ton per linear foot! The Streamliners, by contrast, eliminated heavy underframes and adopted methods of construction where the entire car body and roof contributed to the structural integrity much the same as what is now referred to as unibody construction. The use of lighter materials both inside and out also contributed to these cars weighing as much as 20-25 tons less than that of a comparable heavyweight. Gleaming aluminum fixtures, cut and frosted glass, and even decorative celluloids replaced the dark woods and veneers and heavy cast iron and brass fittings heretofore common to car interiors further reducing weight and contributing to a modern, glamourous style which was readily accepted by the traveling public. The lighter designs proved to be much more economical as well and were adopted by Pullman-Standard and a newcomer to passenger car design the Budd Company of Philadelphia. Since 1913, Budd was a well-known supplier of auto body stampings but by 1930, rapidly became a major force in railroad passenger car design. Budd was among the first to grasp the potential of stainless steel, however the inability of stainless steel to be fabricated with normal welding techniques was an issue. Budds chief engineer, Colonel Earl J.W. Ragsdale, spent five years developing the key process needed to make stainless into a viable structural material: the patented Shotweld electric welding process. From the groundbreaking Pioneer Zephyrs in 1934 through the Amfleets of the1980s, Budd designed cars have carved out a unique and lasting legacy which carries on today in cars produced by Bombardier. Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock is prototypically accurate and includes a wide array of car types, from box cars, to passenger cars to cabooses. In addition to being intricately detailed, Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock features crisp painting and lettering, perfectly recreating the colorful paint schemes found on their real-world counterparts. Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock is ready to run right out of the box, so you can go straight from the hobby store to using the model in your fleet. The primary mission of Atlas is to produce and offer to the public, multiple scale lines of high quality, model railroad products based on prototype information. Atlas philosophy is based on a dedicated30138652 — Atlas 30138652 UNION PACIFIC E6 Locomotive PREMIER Red/White/Blue O Scale
30138653 — Atlas 30138653 UNION PACIFIC E6 Locomotive PREMIER Yellow/Red/Gray O Scale
3001959 — Atlas 3001959 UNION PACIFIC Streamlined Passenger Car PREMIER Yellow/Gray/Red O Scale
3001960 — Atlas 3001960 UNION PACIFIC 70' Streamline Passenger 2 Car Set PREMIER Yellow/Gray/Red O Scale
Features
Prototype Info
About Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock
About Atlas Model Railroad Company
3001961 — Atlas 3001961 UNION PACIFIC 70' Streamline Passenger Car Set PREMIER Yellow/Gray/Red O Scale
Features
Prototype Info
About Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock
About Atlas Model Railroad Company
3001962 — Atlas 3001962 UNION PACIFIC 70' Streamline Passenger Car Set PREMIER Yellow/Gray/Red O Scale
Features
Prototype Info
About Atlas O Premier Rolling Stock
About Atlas Model Railroad Company