DCC Ready Steamers - Where ???

[Colli]

Hey there Bachmann,
                                   Whats happening, I just checked the HO product line and there are no more DCC Ready Steamers   In the production line it can't cost more than about $10/ unit to install the plugs so why not give us the option ? I am sure I am not the only Bachmann customer who is very disappointed in this.

[ABC]

I found some:
4-8-4 Class J Locomotive with Round-End Tender and Auxi
Road Name: Norfolk & Western #603
Features include:
• DCC-ready
• operating headlight
• separately applied metal parts
• alligator cross heads
• see-through frame
• RP25 wheels
• E-Z Mate® Mark II couplers
Price: $250.00
Product Code: 82104

K4-4-6-2 Pacific - Pre-War with Slat Pilot
Road Name: Pennsylvania #5448
Features include:
• DCC-ready
• operating headlight
• 5-pole skew wound motor
• all-metal chassis
• blackened metal wheels & siderods
• all-metal wheels with RP25 contours
• die-cast trailing truck
• painted engineer & fireman figures
• metal cut levers
• separately applied parts, including injectors, pump, and piping
• E-Z Mate® Mark II couplers
Price: $165.00
Product Code: 84113

80 Ton, Three-Truck Shay
Road Name: West Virginia Pulp & Paper #1 (Wood Cab)
Features include:
• DCC ready
• directional lighting
• complete prototype drive train
• scale metal driveline
• precision sealed can motor with metal motor bearings
• separately applied stack, domes and cab
• separate detail parts, including bell, whistle, pop valves, cut levers, and handrails
• separate sanding lines
• detailed cab interior
• lighted firebox
• finescale deadwoods (pilot beams)
• operating piston rods and valve gears
• finescale brake rigging and double truss rods
• RP25 wheels with tapered spokes on locomotive and tender
• E-Z Mate® Mark II couplers
Price: $318.00
Product Code: 81909

Do these not count???

[Colli]

Thanks ABC, I must have missed those THREE  out of all the products that Bachmann handles.  You helped to emphasize my point .
   The 3 truck Shay. as far as I know was never used by Canadian National or C.P. so that does not help me. As far as the others I can't comment.  But it would be nice to have the options available on some of the other equipment.
      Another nice to have would be more Painted Undecorated locos so that we could put our own ficticious Rail Roads or obselete short lines on them
While I realise that C.N. and C.P. don't mean much to most folks in the U.S. I am sure they like us are grateful to both railroads for any number of items being transported both ways across the friendliest border in the world.

[Pacific Northern]

The CPR did in fact own three shay engines. Each was a three truck shay and were very similar to the Spectrum Shay. Another of the Spectrum steamers that is similar to CPR engines is the 4-6-0.

http://www.shaylocomotives.com/data/owner/OwnerSearchFrame.htm

http://www.shaylocomotives.com/data/dataframe.htm

These engines worked the Southeast portion of BC and were mainly based in the Trail/Rossland areas.

The book, "Steam Along The Boundary" details the Mining Industry and the history of the CPR and Great Northern Railroads in this area. Lots of pictures of the area and of the various steam engines used by the two railroads.

[ryeguyisme]

you know the DCC locos bachmann offers can run on analog FYI

[ABC]

Or you can take the decoders out and install the jumper plugs. I am sure you could probably sell the decoders on ebay or at a train show.