Which is your favorite HO Spectrum steamer?

[Bill Baker]

I would say my 2-8-0 and 2-8-2 SY are my favorites.  Followed by the 4-8-2, and 4-6-0.

[Rashputin]

  My Heavy 4-8-2s are my favorites but my sons' Light 2-10-2s are a close second.  After that, the 2-8-0 and the 2-10-0 are great engines, but not favorites (I'd hate to be without them, though).


  Regards

[hotrainlover]

I love my 2-10-0.  It is just right pulling my "Old" passenger cars.  My Shay is the BOMB!!  I have NEVER had any of the problems that others seem too...  Then there is my Light Mountain...(Waiting for more to be produced!!)  I just received the Doodlebug for Christmas.

Did I mention I run my Shay more than any other of my engines.   

I do have 15 other Bachmann Plus ones...  I have enjoyed them ALL.  I had to learn how to make them DCC ready....  I have many Bachmann engines, and they are all good dependable runners.

My absolute favorite engine of all 44 engines on my pike is the Spectrum 0-6-0 tank engine. 
Now there it comes DCC Installed!

Thanks MR. Bachmann!!

[Thommo]

Shay, without a doubt!

[NWsteam]

Love my DCC ready Bachmann Spectrum J. It's a trooper!

Also love my shay. How about a 2 truck version? 

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

I think i have atleast 1 of every spectrum steamer, with the exception of the china mikados.

5 2-8-0's (4 B&O 1 C&O)
4 Heavy Mountains(2 B&O 2 C&O including George Washington)
1 2-10-0 (B&O)
1 4-8-4 J-Class (B&O)
4 0-6-0 Saddle Tanks (B&O)
2 2-6-6-2 Mallets (B&O)
9 4-4-0's (5 B&O, 2 Ma & Pa, 1 Southern and 1 Pepsi Cola which is about to become a funeral loco, you'll see)
4 2-Truck Climax's (B&O on all 4 for now, 3, maybe all4  only 1 truck drive)
6 4-6-0 (2 high boiler 4 low boiler, B&O 1 High Boiler 2 Low Boiler,  Ma & Pa  Low Boiler, Pepsi Cola High Boiler(to be repainted and repaired) and Southern Low Boiler
1 3-Truck Shay (B&O

Am I missing any steamers besides the Chinese locos?


Guess you can say I like em all!

[Pacific Northern]

I think i have atleast 1 of every spectrum steamer, with the exception of the china mikados.

5 2-8-0's (4 B&O 1 C&O)
4 Heavy Mountains(2 B&O 2 C&O including George Washington)
1 2-10-0 (B&O)
1 4-8-4 J-Class (B&O)
4 0-4-0 Saddle Tanks (B&O)
2 2-6-6-2 Mallets (B&O)
9 4-4-0's (5 B&O, 2 Ma & Pa, 1 Southern and 1 Pepsi Cola which is about to become a funeral loco, you'll see)
4 2-Truck Climax's (B&O on all 4 for now, 3, maybe all4  only 1 truck drive)
6 4-6-0 (2 high boiler 4 low boiler, B&O 1 High Boiler 2 Low Boiler,  Ma & Pa  Low Boiler, Pepsi Cola High Boiler(to be repainted and repaired) and Southern Low Boiler
1 3-Truck Shay (B&O

Am I missing any steamers besides the Chinese locos?


Guess you can say I like em all!

I did not know that Spectrum had released a 0-4-0 tank. You seem to have missed the 4-6-2 Pennsy.

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

sorry 0-6-0 tank,

and yes i forgot about the K4, though the idea crossed my mind to get one and strip it of the keystone, replace it with a capital dome haha.

[pipefitter]

... and yes i forgot about the K4, though the idea crossed my mind to get one and strip it of the keystone, replace it with a capital dome

Ha, ha, I wondered when I saw Pacific Northern's post. From your user name, I had wondered if you were as indoctrinated as I was growing up in a B&O family. From earliest years, my grandfather (who worked as a steamfitter/boiler maker for Washington Terminal Co) would line me and my little cousins up and make us say "The B&O is the WAY TO GO!" And then he'd say "What about the Pennsy?" And we'd hold our noses and shout "NO, NO, NO!"  And I learned from others to "hate" the PRR although I was always fascinated by the fleets of GG-1's that I would see at Washington DC's Union Station. I have a Bowser / Penn Line GG-1 undecorated shell and have toyed with the idea of painting it in a B&O blue, black and gray scheme with logos and gold stripes just to see what it would look like. But I have resisted, thinking it would be kind of a crime against nature

Cheers,

Robert

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

I ALMOST did that once, i just couldnt find an IHC one to paint up.

[Pacific Northern]

I think i have atleast 1 of every spectrum steamer, with the exception of the china mikados.

5 2-8-0's (4 B&O 1 C&O)
4 Heavy Mountains(2 B&O 2 C&O including George Washington)
1 2-10-0 (B&O)
1 4-8-4 J-Class (B&O)
4 0-6-0 Saddle Tanks (B&O)
2 2-6-6-2 Mallets (B&O)
9 4-4-0's (5 B&O, 2 Ma & Pa, 1 Southern and 1 Pepsi Cola which is about to become a funeral loco, you'll see)
4 2-Truck Climax's (B&O on all 4 for now, 3, maybe all4  only 1 truck drive)
6 4-6-0 (2 high boiler 4 low boiler, B&O 1 High Boiler 2 Low Boiler,  Ma & Pa  Low Boiler, Pepsi Cola High Boiler(to be repainted and repaired) and Southern Low Boiler
1 3-Truck Shay (B&O

Am I missing any steamers besides the Chinese locos?


Guess you can say I like em all!

Oh, you are also missing the Light Mountain and the 2-10-2

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

accully i have a 2-10-2 but it no longer has the spectrum boiler on it....but i may get one and keep the boiler on it

and forgot about the light mountain, want one but cant find one.

[rogertra]

I'd like a couple of Spectrum 2-10-2s but I think the undec only comes with that odd ball "Southern" valve gear so that makes it a no go for me. 

[Johnson Bar Jeff]

... and yes i forgot about the K4, though the idea crossed my mind to get one and strip it of the keystone, replace it with a capital dome

Ha, ha, I wondered when I saw Pacific Northern's post. From your user name, I had wondered if you were as indoctrinated as I was growing up in a B&O family. From earliest years, my grandfather (who worked as a steamfitter/boiler maker for Washington Terminal Co) would line me and my little cousins up and make us say "The B&O is the WAY TO GO!" And then he'd say "What about the Pennsy?" And we'd hold our noses and shout "NO, NO, NO!"  And I learned from others to "hate" the PRR although I was always fascinated by the fleets of GG-1's that I would see at Washington DC's Union Station. I have a Bowser / Penn Line GG-1 undecorated shell and have toyed with the idea of painting it in a B&O blue, black and gray scheme with logos and gold stripes just to see what it would look like. But I have resisted, thinking it would be kind of a crime against nature

Cheers,

Robert

A late friend of mine used to say that his grandmother always said, "Nice people ride the B&O." If a room was a mess, she'd say, "This room looks like Pennsylvania Station."