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Atlas - 50 005 533 - Flatcar, ACF F89-J - TTX Company - 601009

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Production TypeAnnounced
Stock Number50 005 533
Original Retail Price$42.95
BrandAtlas
ManufacturerAtlas Model Railroad
Body StyleBLMA Flatcar 89 Foot TOFC
Image Provider's WebsiteLink
PrototypeFlatcar, ACF F89-J
Road or Company NameTTX Company (Details)
Reporting MarksTTX
Road or Reporting Number601009
Paint Color(s)Brown
Print Color(s)Black and White
Coupler TypeMT Magne-Matic Knuckle
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)
Release Date2020-10-01
Item CategoryRolling Stock (Freight)
Model TypeFlatcar
Model Subtype89 Foot
Model VarietyACF F89-J w/Hitches



Model Information: BLMA designed this model. BLMA was incorporated into Atlas in 2016. Features: Die-Cast Metal Frame; Fine-Scale Detail; Accurately Painted/Printed (multiple variations!); Collapsed & Raised Center Hitch; Prototypical Ride Height; ALL-NEW 70-Ton ASF Ride Control Trucks; ALL-NEW Scale Profile Metal Wheels; Body-Mounted Brown Micro-Trains Couplers
Road Name History:
TTX Company (formerly Trailer Train until 1991) is a leading provider of railcars and related freight car management services to the North American rail industry. TTX's pool of railcars (over 220,000 cars and intermodal wells) is ideal for supporting shippers in the intermodal, automotive, paper & forest, metals, machinery, wind energy and other markets where flatcars, boxcars and gondolas are required.

Owned by North America's leading railroads, TTX's free-running pools provide fungible assets that minimize total empty miles, further lowering costs and minimizing risk for the industry, helping the railroads conserve their capital for other critical infrastructure needs. Customers easily recognize TTX's bright yellow cars as a consistent, high quality, well-maintained fleet that serves many transportation needs.
Brand/Importer Information:
In 1924 Stephan Schaffan, Sr. founded the Atlas Tool Company in Newark, New Jersey. In 1933 his son, Stephan Schaffan, Jr., came to work for his father at the age of sixteen. Steve Jr. built model airplanes as a hobby and frequented a local hobby shop. Being an enterprising young man, he would often ask the owner if there was anything he could do to earn some extra spending money. Tired of listening to his requests, the hobby-store owner threw some model railroad track parts his way and said, "Here, see if you can improve on this".

In those days, railroad modelers had to assemble and build everything from scratch. Steve Jr. created a "switch kit" which sold so well, that the entire family worked on them in the basement at night, while doing business as usual in the machine shop during the day.

Subsequently, Steve Jr. engineered the stapling of rail to fiber track, along with inventing the first practical rail joiner and pre-assembled turnouts and flexible track. All of these products, and more, helped to popularize model railroading and assisted in the creation of a mass-market hobby. The budding entrepreneur quickly outgrew the limitations of a basement and small garage operation. Realizing they could actually make a living selling track and related products, Steve and his father had the first factory built in Hillside, New Jersey at 413 Florence Avenue in 1947. On September 30, 1949, the Atlas Tool Company was officially incorporated as a New Jersey company.

In 1985, Steve was honored posthumously for his inventions by the Model Railroad Industry Association and was inducted into the Model Railroad Industry Hall of Fame in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition, Steve was nominated and entered into the National Model Railroad Association Pioneers of Model Railroading in 1995.

In the early 1990s, the Atlas Tool Company changed its name to Atlas Model Railroad Company, Inc.
Manufacturer Information: 'Atlas Model Railroad' represents the New Jersey manufacturing facility for Atlas brand model railroad products. Atlas also imported European made models in their early years and those items will be noted as having manufacturers set appropriately. In the 1990s Atlas moved all their toolings to China.
Item created by: CMK on 2020-01-22 08:59:33. Last edited by CMK on 2020-05-13 07:14:41

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