HO Steam Engine

[Penn1974]

Is there any way to tell the year of manufacture and type of a HO Bachmann engine by a Bachmann part number or engine number? Thanks

[ACY]

If you give me the model number I can tell you what type of locomotive you have most likely, but a photo uploaded to a photo hosting site would help as well. The exact year of manufacture would not be easy to figure out.

[Penn1974]

It is a Bachmann K4 part # 3716413520 with a engine #1381.

[Penn1974]

Sorry- part # 371646135820

[Len]

The 'type' is easy, PRR Class K4 locos were all 4-6-2 "Pacifics" intended for passenger service, but also used for fast freight.

Len

[Penn1974]

Thanks for the comments so far. Two questions that I still have is with the part number, is there a way to tell when that product was made and is there an area that I can find out what the different types of Bachmann products that had names such as Spectrum and such meant including locomotives and freight and passenger cars? Thanks in advance.

[Bucksco]

There is not a complete database of old Bachmann products. Finding old item numbers, etc... would require obtaining old catalogs.

[ebtnut]

IIRC, the first Bachmann K-4's came out about 20 years ago.  I (barely) remember them in steam, so had to have one.  I might still have it in a box somewhere, but have been in O/On3 for even longer.  Used to run it on our club layout until we were asked to leave and that's when the HO went into storage. 

[nfmisso]

Some resources:

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/228181.aspx
http://hoseeker.net/assemblyexplosionbachmann/bachmannk4spectrum462.jpg

There have been several versions of the Spectrum K4 over the decades - the first ones from the early 1990's had a horizontally split frame, with each have of the frame connected to one  rail.  Later Bachmann went to a different design with a single main frame.  Not many parts interchange.

Nigel

[Penn1974]

Thank you nfmisso for your help. When I tried to click on the link for hoseeker I got a permission denied message #403

[jbrock27]

So did I.

Try this:

http://hoseeker.net