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Post by gyroflyer on Apr 11, 2018 0:52:16 GMT -5
Hi all,
I just ordered a few of the Atlas Z turnouts. Has anybody used these yet? I bought the Fast Track Z turnout kit and figuring I built 4 of them correct, I can't get any power to them. Kind of frustrating for now. Has anybody had this kind of problem with Fast Track Z turnouts?
Thanks.
Mark
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Post by texrail on Apr 11, 2018 6:18:08 GMT -5
Mark, Sorry, no experience with Fast Track. But how could you order Altas Z turnouts  ? As far as I know, they are not on the market yet. Best,Ingo |
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Post by markm on Apr 11, 2018 8:17:24 GMT -5
The Atlas turnouts have been available as a preorder for some time now. I ordered two sets back in December. Atlas formally announced the preorders in the April Model railroader so I suspect they are close to shipping.
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Post by dazed on Apr 11, 2018 8:53:46 GMT -5
The Atlas turnouts have been available as a preorder for some time now. I ordered two sets back in December. Atlas formally announced the preorders in the April Model railroader so I suspect they are close to shipping. But to the point, nobody (other than probably a few select beta testers) has used any and thus cannot provide the o.p. feedback yet. But yes we are probably counting weeks, not months, at this point. (maybe even days!!!   ) |
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Post by markm on Apr 11, 2018 9:19:34 GMT -5
Mark, When you say that you can't get any power to your Fast Track turnouts, may I assume you're having problems powering the frog? Fast Tracks and the upcoming Atlas turnouts have no switch machine to control the power to the frogs. That's left to the user. In it's simplest form you need a switch to route power to the frog. Using the Atlas as an example:  The frog gets power from the right hand rail in the diverging position and the left hand rail in the normal position. There was a recent article in Model Railroader instructing how to do this and use a toggle switch to mechanically move the points. It would take some fiddling to get the mechanical linkage to work in Z. Since I don't have the Atlas turnouts yet, I can't vouch for how well this solution will work mechanically work. Mark |
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Post by gyroflyer on Apr 11, 2018 15:28:26 GMT -5
Mark, Sorry, no experience with Fast Track. But how could you order Altas Z turnouts ? As far as I know, they are not on the market yet. Best,Ingo Woops, I didn't see the advanced order next to the details. LOL Mark |
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Post by Commodore on Apr 12, 2018 17:01:35 GMT -5
May Model Railroader has a product announcement!!!!
The word "preorder" is unmentioned.
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Post by markm on Apr 12, 2018 17:24:04 GMT -5
Zscale Monster has removed "preorder" from their listing and is claiming 2Q18 delivery. Atlas still has preorder on their website.
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Post by zscalehobo on Apr 12, 2018 17:35:56 GMT -5
May Model Railroader has a product announcement!!!! The word "preorder" is unmentioned. In January Atlas posted this to their Facebook account ... This sounds very similar to what you read in May 2018 Model Railroader ... "product announcement." The May MR probably required content submissions in February. Likely not much more information than this product announcement is in your new issue.  The word I had from Atlas two weeks ago (March 30) is that a new set of turnout samples were just brought in-house and if approved, production would start shortly thereafter. The place where it counts is on the Atlas Shop site ... and as of today, they still say "pre-order:"  |
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Post by Commodore on Apr 15, 2018 19:58:59 GMT -5
Thanks. I appreciate the insights. Makes sense.
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Post by Commodore on Jul 31, 2018 6:52:51 GMT -5
Thanks. I appreciate the insights. Makes sense. I have a feeling this is related to AFFA's demise. Suppose they had to eat a several hundred thousand wan batch of "defective" switches. |
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Post by markm on Jul 31, 2018 7:49:36 GMT -5
The last word from Atlas was that they had to rework tooling and probable production would be in September. Their press release from last week states that track products ARE NOT affected by this plant closure.
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Post by Rob Albritton on Jul 31, 2018 16:43:21 GMT -5
The last word from Atlas was that they had to rework tooling and probable production would be in September. Their press release from last week states that track products ARE NOT affected by this plant closure. Correct - Atlas track is NOT made by AFFA, so the turnouts should be proceeding HOWEVER, it would not surprise me if Atlas management is a little distracted right now, so that could impact things too. |
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Post by jhrailroading on Aug 13, 2018 0:43:01 GMT -5
In James Wright’s Facebook live video of the Atlas booth at the National Train Show, it was noted that the new Z scale track offerings are “virtually coming out anytime now” and that they are “very close”. Hopefully the wait will soon be over for those who have long awaited these turnouts.
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Post by markm on Sept 21, 2018 8:03:47 GMT -5
I noticed this morning that the status of these turnouts on the Atlas page has gone from "preorder" to "backorder". Has anyone actually received them yet?
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? As far as I know, they are not on the market yet.
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