Walthers Lets Loose the Bachmann Announcements...

[Guilford Guy]

http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?category=Locomotive&scale=H&manu=Bachmann&item=&keywords=&instock=A&split=30&Submit=Search

More notable are the NYNH&H, C&O, and MEC connies with sound
Good Work Guys!

[WoundedBear]

The factory sound Shay in HO is a welcome addition.....put me down for a couple.

Sid

[Conrail Quality]

Bachmann has made a bold and daring gamble, venturing into models no manufacturer has dared to do before...


Spectrum(R) Diesel F7A&B Powered, -- New York Central #1723 & 2448 (Lightning Stripe

There have been reports of angry model railoraders buying Amtrak tickets to Milwaukee carrying torches and pitchforks. They are also carrying picket signs saying things like "An HHP-8 is NEITHER a diesel NOR a freight loco!"

http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?manu=BACHMANN&item=&split=30&category=&scale=&instock=A&keywords=&start=0
(Fifth item down)

-Timothy

[r.cprmier]

Awwwwwwwww, shucks; you're just mad 'cause they haven't done an EF-3 yellowjacket yet...

Rich

[SteamGene]

How about the "Cavalier" N&W freight train?  With those prices, they can afford to hire Blackwater to guard them against angry modelers.  A Consolidation for $300?  And the C&O G classes looked nothing like the Bachmann Consolidation except it was a 2-8-0. 
Gene

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

don't tell me Bachmann is pulling an "Athearn" By going all sound on everything new.

[Pacific Northern]

don't tell me Bachmann is pulling an "Athearn" By going all sound on everything new.

Please tell me that the Spectrum sound unit is not getting the same type of negative reviews as Athearns/ MRC sound units?

[danmerkel]

Ouch!  From the looks of those prices, model railroading will soon become a hobby of the "rich & famous!"  : (

dlm

[James Hail]

Walthers prices are insane on everything. I never shop there,Who does?.....

[Guilford Guy]

I buy, decals, paints, detail parts, and the occasional on sale stuff...

[Hoople]

Hmm, still no UP consolidation with sound.... Shocker...

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

its not bad, but people including me who don't have the money for the sound or just don't want it.

[Paducah Style]

Hoople wrote:

"Modeling UP, SP, and D&RGW in colorado between 1930 and 1960.

GIVE US HARRIMAN STEAMERS BACHMANN!"


INDEED!!!!!!!!!!!

Brad
Modeling the IC in 1950

[Atlantic Central]

Well,

This sure is amusing. I have a lot of Bachmann stuff, but nothing on that list is of interest to me.

drhone,

From what I see, Bachmann is not going all sound/DCC, they are just introducing the sound/DCC versions of products allready out there.

As many on here know, I do not care for sound in HO. And I am amused by the comments about Athearm/MRC sound locos. Its like trying to judge the quality of a premium pressing vinyl record while playing it on a kiddie phonograph.

The only place you can tell any real differences about these sound systems is in your imagination because no two 2" speakers in the world can even come close to reproducing the sounds of a railroad locomotive in anything that could remotely be called Hi Fi, or acurate sound reproduction.

I will conceed that if you like it, and you are having fun - go for it. But it remains evident that sound, DCC, or the two combined have only made a small penitration into the model train market. Most manufacturers continue to offer both or are tring to expand the fuctionality of their "dual mode' products, or both.

BLI/PCM has long ago retreated from their orginal all DCC/sound position, Atlas and Proto continue to offer both, AND maybe most important - the new Athearn SP Mountain is listed on their web site in both sound/DCC and non sound/DC versions.

If, and it is a big if, I ever do anything with sound, it will be layout based sound that can play through speakers large enough to actually reproduce a frequency range close to that of a real loco.

Still buying only DC locos like about 75% of the market from what I can tell.

Sheldon

[Johnson Bar Jeff]

Still buying only DC locos like about 75% of the market from what I can tell.

Sheldon

I'm with you, Sheldon.