Thomas narrow gauge engine ideas

[uscgtanker]

My cousins love Thomas and friends but they also like narrow gauge. I know some costumers would like to see Skarloey and Rheneas, so this is my thinking. Bachmann has a good line of N and Ho scales. 2 foot narrow gauge is a easy thing to do with N scale track and half the size Ho body's. What you will get is Hon30 which is very close to 2 foot and 30 inch gauges.

[Chaz]

I imagine the tooling would be expensive for Bachmann to put together, so I have my doubts... but I'm all for it!  Especially with the detail on the CGI versions of the characters, I think they would look great.  It would just depend on how they would manage to put them together and how well they would sell, which I imagine they would sell pretty well.  People who model narrow gauge would go nuts over them!

[DucktheGWREngine08]

And on top of them being good sellers, it would give narrow gauge modelers who like the make British outline NG stuff who try to make the Skarloey engines A LOT LESS HASSLE. Seriously, the Corris No. 4 made by Meridian Models has the same amount of etched brass as the Rodney Stenning Corris No. 3 mainly for the cab which makes Soldering a MAJOR need and there are some *like myself* who NEVER soldered before  . Also the Skarloey Railway is on a 2 FOOT 3 INCH track like the Talyllyn & Corris Railways are :L.