Large Boilered Consolidation

[Don Gilham]

Hi Mr Bachmann - long time no post 

Is there any possibility that you might re-introduce the large boilered 2-8-0 brought up-to-date with DCC and that wonderful Tsunami Sound ?

Would fill a rather large gap 

[the Bach-man]

Dear Don,
Presumably you mean the Reading 2-8-0. As far as I know, the tool no longer exists, so a rerun is unlikely.
Have fun!
the Bach-man

[Don Gilham]

That's the one !!

It's a great shame, because there isn't a ready-to-run Large boilrered Conso on the market - a HUGE gap.

Rather that produce models that other maunufactureres do (for instance the renowned K4) why not produce something that is needed ? 



EDIT :

Sorry Bachhy I've just realised that IHC do a large boilered Conso.  Hmmmmmmmmmmm,  I'd much rather have a Bachmann built model.  S'pose it's the difference between buying a Ford or a Rolls Royce (sorry, Cadillac) and I know which I'd rather have 

[SteamGene]

Don,
I have one of the IHC Consolidations and it's a nice model.  You might wait a bit as IHC is going out of the cookie cutting business and it may be next.  Unlike their other steam, it comes with an operating front coupler. 
Gene

[TonyD]

A glimmer of hope in the gloom of long gone dies and tooling, the old Reading shells WILL fit the specrum 2-8-0's with no real work to speak of. A good idea to get it fixed to the chassis rather than just sit there with gravity, but they do look like a massive machine, especially if you swap tender shells with a taller one.

[japasha]

Don,

You might hit a few swap meets and find a good used example of the Reading 2-8-0 and then buy a Bowser motor conversion kit. This comes with a completely new drivetrain and will pull much better than the original.  I have some other Bachmann 4-8-4s with those conversions and it is solid, even Gene would be impressed.

[SteamGene]

Bowser does a great job with motors, gears, and running gear.  They add a nice amount of weight, too.
Gene

[r.cprmier]

That Reading 2-8-0 is the one with the Wooten firebox, right?  I remember about twenty years back, when Bachmann had it interchanged with a Mike and a Vanderbilt tender, and it was an impressive beast to behold.  it was rather interesting to me, as (they) had it as a B&O Mike.  Ummmmhmmmm.

 

[Pacific Northern]

When I first unpacked my old model railroad equipment a couple of years ago I noticed I had one of the old Bachmann Reading 2-8-0's.

I remember that I had run it  a couple of times but was not impressed with it.  It was my one and only steam engine with smoke.  I tried in on a test track and nada, no lights, no hum, nothing at all.

I repacked it with a number of other old items that I thought I would never use. I had thought that I might one day send it and a money order to Bachmann and see what is offered as a replacement seeing it is no longer in producation.

Perhaps obtaining a NWSL drive is something I should explore.

[Don Gilham]

Brilliant ideas, thanks guys 

There you go Bacchy, a LOT of interest in a large boilered Conso.  Food for thought, perhaps ?

[r.cprmier]

If you can find the moulds, try a small number run of just the body, and see what happens.  There are several avenues for guys (like me) to build up a great locomotive.  My first choice of weapons would be a 2-8-0 mechanism from Bowser and a slew of the usual Cal-Scale detail parts-this time, sans the Elesco Feedwater heater.  I bet a great running steed worthy of acclaim could be done.  You wouldn't even have to do the cab-Greenway has a USRA cab that can be adapted.

Rich

[TonyD]

I don't know if you ran across this one Rich, but 2 or 3 years ago at the big E there was a young lady with a crate, well, crates, of bachmann Reading boiler shells, just the shells, I guess its tender shells and some other diesel shell stuff, but she could do well on this thread huh? A dollar a piece. I fired up my 2-8-0 with one of those shells, as a D&H superhog, I guess just like the real ones, she fills up the loading guage, high wide and not so handsome.....

[r.cprmier]

Tony;
Just think what an Elesco feedwater heater would do...  The thing would look like a battering ram with a Hillary butt.

Rich

[TonyD]

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