10-24-2020, 12:30 PM
I'm an Alco-haulic, too, so it's nice to see those old RS-11s again, Deano. I bought the 602 and 604 from Hobbies For Men, in Beacon, New York, via mail order (pre-internet days), simply because I liked the looks of them in the ads in RMC and MR.
They were from LifeLike and after they introduced their much superior Proto-2000 line, I later dubbed those two as Proto-No-Thousands. They each had one truck-mounted motor, and were extremely poor runners. After removing the motors and adding better details (the original handrails were part of the bodyshell casting, so you can imagine how thick they were.
I don't recall if the Atlas RS-11s were available at that time or came later, but when I could finally afford them, I ordered two, making two sets, each with a smooth running Atlas and fairly smooth-rolling dummy.
I later added an Atlas S-4...
...but it's gone, too.
Wayne
They were from LifeLike and after they introduced their much superior Proto-2000 line, I later dubbed those two as Proto-No-Thousands. They each had one truck-mounted motor, and were extremely poor runners. After removing the motors and adding better details (the original handrails were part of the bodyshell casting, so you can imagine how thick they were.
I don't recall if the Atlas RS-11s were available at that time or came later, but when I could finally afford them, I ordered two, making two sets, each with a smooth running Atlas and fairly smooth-rolling dummy.
I later added an Atlas S-4...
...but it's gone, too.
Wayne