COMET II COMMUTER CARS & HORIZON PASSENGER CARS

Each Atlas O Comet II Commuter Car includes:

• Full scale length, approximately 21.5"

• Available in both coach and commuter cab versions

• Accurate scale details

• Separately applied metal handrails

• Rubber tubular-type diaphragms on each end ( 1 on the commuter cab car)

• Interior seating

• Accurate inside-bearing commuter trucks

• Operating tail lights (operating tail lights and headlight on cab car)

• Die-cast operating couplers (3-rail)

• Accurate painting and lettering

• 2 rail version equipped with scale wheelsets and

• body-mounted Kadee compatible couplers

• Minimum radius (3 rail) O-54

Comet II Commuter Cars - Prototype Background
The Comet II commuter pasenger cars were first introduced by Bombardier in 1980-81. The cars had their genesis in the earlier Comet commuter cars which were built for the Erie Lackawanna and New Jersey DOT.

The cars have gained great acceptance with many transit agencies including NJ Transit, MBTA, SEPTA, Metro-North and others. Millions of commuters ride these cars everyday to work in the population centers of NY, Philadephia and Boston.

Differing from the long-distance Horizon cars, the Comet II coaches have tubular style diaphragms and ride on inboard-bearing trucks. Atlas O will offer the Comet II cars in both coach and cab control coach versions, so that for the first time, true push-pull operation can be realistically duplicated in O gauge.