The 2330 series consisted of four cars, made in Austria by Roco and marketed by Atlas. And no, despite what's shown in the catalog page image above, the doors did not open!

Of these four cars the 2333 Union Pacific is the most interesting as a very good early try on the "Automated Railway" scheme. It had five total colors which is huge for the time period. The "Auto Railway" map looks quite alright considering only three colors are used!

None of these cars are particularly scarce. The 2333 Union Pacific had several minor variations according to Barry Wingard's book "The N Scale Collector's Guide". But a purchase in May 2008 led me to question whether they were really minor variations and so I've included the two styles of the car now in my accumulation. Meanwhile, the 2331 is one of three A1G Pennsylvania Railroad cars to carry the same road number... so much for prototype fidelity!

Key spotting features for this car are:
- underframe stamped "Atlas Austria"
- two six foot "wide rib" doors, representing Superior doors; note that the "one and a-halfth" generation double door cars, issued for EL, PC, MKT and Chicago and Eastern Illinois (see Ross Fink's page here ), and all later 50 foot double door cars, have "narrow rib" doors representing Youngstown doors
- original trucks with wheels pressed on seperate axles and Rapido couplers, attached with "foldover" metal strips

None of the 2330's have any significant value as "runners". See the 2200 Series Page for grading explanations and caveats.