How Atlas Model Trains Became Famous
Posted by Ferdinand Emy in hobbies, tags: atlas model trains, hobbies
Just like many other companies in the model train industry, the story of atlas model trains is a story of resourcefulness, entrepreneurship, and hard work, mixed with a passion for a hobby that produced a company that grew larger than what anybody would have envisioned at the onset.
Origin of atlas model trains goes back to the early decades of the twentieth century, when Stephan Schaffan Sr. established what would become atlas model trains. Back then, it was a tool company, and not a model train company and Stephan Schaffan sr. Was so ridden with insufficient human resources that he had his son Stephan Schaffan Jr. Came and aided him with the business.
Stephan Schaffan Jr. Wasn’t happy with the money that he gained at his dads business (that is if he earned anything at all). He was a young and inventive man who liked machinery. He would go after work and built model airplanes at his house. There was a local airplane model shop where he inhabited, and he would visit it ofttimes. He applied to pester the possessor by asking for a side job that he could do to gain extra money, to which the possessor would always deny him.
Notwithstanding, one day, the possessor of the store grew so lethargic of Stephan Jr.’s incessant and badgering requests that he gave him a large quantity of old railroads and model trains that he didn’t want to use anymore, in the hopes that Stephan would go away and leave him for crying out loud.
Little did he know that these old railroad tracks and models that he discarded so without apparent effort would finally become what today is known as atlas model trains.
Stephan Jr. Went back home and worked on those trains. Being an inventive and intellectual young man, he designed a switch set, which would become the staple of atlas model trains, and that allowed the user to commence and stop the trains by manipulating the voltage on the tracks.
Thereafter, Stephan Jr. made more productions which made the constitution grow even more, while his fathers business started to look little in comparison. someplace along the line, the first name was dropped and the constitution took the name of atlas model railroad, because most people know it by the name atlas model trains.
Now with atlas model trains officially existing, Stephan created assorted gimmicks that saved work for the persons who relished the model train hobby. example, he created pre-assembles’ tracks, that saved his clients the problem of assembling it themselves. generally his innovations made track assembling much having little impact. Atlas model trains is today one of the known names in the industry. because Stephen Jr. is no longer alive, atlas model trains and his bequest made model trains a much more accessible hobby for train lovers.
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