Bachmanns new announcements

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

I'm not too impressed with what is announced, another GG1 on a flooded market of em if you ask me,

One thing that looks good to me is the 0-6-0 Porter Side Tank engine, just wish there was an undec version.

Heavyweights making a come back, just a coach and combine for now, i may pick up both B&O ones if they are different numbers then what i've got

for a .pdf its on the home page of the bachmann site.

[Reinhard S]

I like the announcements.

A GG-1 with sound that won't break the bank.

GP-7 with sound.

Very nice Porter and the heavy weights make a nice addition to the catalog.

All the best.

Reinhard 

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

i'm hoping bachmann comes out with a baggage and rpo cars to go with their heavyweights.

I'mm also hoping that bachmann would come out with a B&O P7 or Q4 (if they need measurements and photos, they just gotta make a short trip to baltimore) thats affordable. Maybe even a winans camel or other old time engines (again they can get photos nad measurements from baltimores B&O musuem) they could do several road names in the old time stuff.

[J3a-614]

The P-7 would be exceptionally easy; just a new superstructure, new tender (perhaps the 2-8-0 tank), and pilot and perhaps cylinder block for the PRR K4s.  The key dimensions in the running gears of the prototypes are identical, and the valve gear is even very close, a light, lacy form of Walschearts.  

Essentially, a B&O P-7 is a K4s with a radial stay boiler and 45 more pounds of boiler pressure (250 psi vs. 205 psi), a different trailer truck, and, prior to the 1930s (when the K4s' finally got them), a mechanical stoker.

A Q-4 is a variation of the Q-3 (USRA light 2-8-2), with different domes, cast trailer, different cab, Baker valve gear on a lot of them, and that Vanderbilt tank.  This would actually be a lot more of a new locomotive than the P-7, but it might be possible to use some of the 2-8-0 components, including drivers, motor, gears, and lead and tender trucks.

[richg]

I made a Winans Camel a number of years ago using a Roundhouse 2-8-0. Styrene and added windows, remove the two domes, use plastic wood, and my own domes.
Little over size but this is model railroading. I posted the photos sometime ago.
A few years ago I picked up a brass 0-8-0 with the required 43 inch drivers that would make a better Camel but eye sight will not allow modeling anymore.
Someone makes a HO Camel but it cost you your first born.
No way would Bachmann ever make a loco like this.Ten miles an hour was the max speed and usually ran a lot slower. They were a work horse. About two hundred were made but they were not a popular loco.
Today, kids want huge and speed.

Rich

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

I made a Winans Camel a number of years ago using a Roundhouse 2-8-0. Styrene and added windows, remove the two domes, use plastic wood, and my own domes.
Little over size but this is model railroading. I posted the photos sometime ago.
A few years ago I picked up a brass 0-8-0 with the required 43 inch drivers that would make a better Camel but eye sight will not allow modeling anymore.
Someone makes a HO Camel but it cost you your first born.
No way would Bachmann ever make a loco like this.Ten miles an hour was the max speed and usually ran a lot slower. They were a work horse. About two hundred were made but they were not a popular loco.
Today, kids want huge and speed.

Rich

I have two camels, i turned a bachmann 2-8-0 into one, and a IHC 2-6-0 in old time lettering.

And i've thought about scratch building one on a roundhouse locomotive. but lack of hand movement prevents me from doing a lot of small detail stuff(i have a small motor disability)

[RAM]

I saw a brass CNJ 4-8-0cb at a train show a few years ago.  I would have loved to have had it, but I knew better than to even ask the price.  They went by my house five days a week on a local.  That was before I moved to Okla. and got interested in the Santa Fe.

[Doneldon]

Today, kids want huge and speed.
Rich

Rich- 

I'm not so sure that this applies only to kids or only to today's kids.

                                                                                           -- D

[brfriedm]

If they did an E44 then that would be a winner! Lots of PRR fans would of bought that model!

I'm not too impressed with what is announced, another GG1 on a flooded market of em if you ask me,

One thing that looks good to me is the 0-6-0 Porter Side Tank engine, just wish there was an undec version.

Heavyweights making a come back, just a coach and combine for now, i may pick up both B&O ones if they are different numbers then what i've got

for a .pdf its on the home page of the bachmann site.

[choochoopapa]

I really was waiting for the GP-7 with sound, and now its going to happen. But .....and there is a but. To me a horrible choice of road names. Seems Bachmann favors a few eastern roads. Lets hope they make a second run with some mid west road or 

[Jhanecker2]

 Nice to see the heavy-weight passenger cars are slowly coming back. I need some more to complete a decent size load for my steamers . Hate to have to buy some others company's  product  to complete a set.  J2.

[Jerrys HO]

J2

I am with you, I have been picking a few off of evilbay but still need a few more.
Hope they improved the design of the swinging coupler as I have had to fix a couple on mine where the pivot arm mounts to the coupler pin. They used to just melt the plastic on top and when changing coupler's if not careful would snap off. If it has happened to you what fix did you do?

Jerry

[JNXT 7707]

I like the new announcements. Enjoy watching Bachmann overcome it's reputation from the 80s of questionable quality.
Would love to have one of the Penn Central GG1s - would have liked to have seen an Amtrak version but we can't have everything. The new structures are fantastic.
As always, I moan the new prices, but that's reality in the current economic age. Bachmann does, in my view, work to offer more product for less $$ than other manufacturers. Proof of that for me is the DD40AX - that's a lot of locomotive for under $100.

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

Nice to see the heavy-weight passenger cars are slowly coming back. I need some more to complete a decent size load for my steamers . Hate to have to buy some others company's  product  to complete a set.  J2.

I've got a ton of the spectrum heavyweights, a bunch are still undec and awaiting painting but, i've got factory painted

8 - C&O The George Washington
2 B&O Combines 1445 & 1447
5 B&O Coaches 5480,5481,5483,5489,5490
2 B&O Observations 900 & 901
1 Pullman - Loch Ness
1 Diner - Molly Pitcher

[Searsport]

About http://www.bachmanntrains.net/Catalogs/2013/NMRA_2013.pdf.   Am I misunderstanding this?  Is this the Bachmann entire future programme? 

I was hoping to see the Spectrum 4-6-0 again next year, maybe for the SAL to partner my Richmond and Baldwin 4-4-0s.  Surely there must be endless road names available for the high and low boiler 4-6-0s?  And for the Baldwin and Richmond 4-4-0s? 

I was also hoping to see the WP ALCo S2 get sound next year.

Come on Mr. B'Man, none of this would require any new capital investment, just a lick of paint!  It's not as if there are a bunch of undecorateds out there for us to finish ourselves.

Regards,
Bill.