Help Identifing a item

[kherriage]

Purchased a box of N scale items in an estate sale and found this. Would like to know what it is.
Thanks thirdrail for the help..





Thanks
Keith

[James in FL]

It appears, to me, to be a 16 wheel tender included with Bachmann's Northern 4-8-4.

[kherriage]

Thanks James,

That's it. appreciate your help.

Keith

[James in FL]

Something appears to be amiss with the drawbar.

Have you modified it?
Perhaps it's broken off short?
Did you shorten it for more realistic close coupling?

It may well be my old tired eyes seeing something that isn't.

[Michigan Railfan]

Something appears to be amiss with the drawbar.

Have you modified it?
Perhaps it's broken off short?
Did you shorten it for more realistic close coupling?

It may well be my old tired eyes seeing something that isn't.

Just because the drawbar seems short, does'nt mean that he shortened it himself. There could've been part of the drawbar on the locomotive. Actually, you can almost completely tell that there was a drawbar on the loco. There would have to be a drawbar on it because there's a hook on the tender going down, so it would hook into a something else.

[skipgear]

That may be a first or second generation version of the tender. I think it and it's loco have gone through 5 variations since it was released.

http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/bach484.html

[James in FL]

Your right skipgear, and thanks for pointing me back to Mark's excellent site.

I dug up my oldest version and it's as shown above, whereas the pin is molded to the front truck.
This version came in the black and clear pivot jewel case and is embossed "Hong Kong" on the bottom.

The latest version I have, was included with the new split frame loco. It was a replacement from B'mann for the old 4-8-4 which was returned when it finally went south after many years of service (fried motor).
The drawbar on it is connected to the forward truck bolster and is independent of the truck. It looks like, for lack of better words, a child's "bubble blow wand" in miniature, whereas it has a notched eye on the forward end to fit on a pin on the rear of the loco.
This newer version is packaged in the same case as are all the new spectrum locos.
This version is embossed "China" on the bottom.

Thanks for making me fish for it, as I found some other items I have which I haven't seen for years.
I have been looking for a bash I made several years ago, and still haven't found it.
It may well be in the bottom of that same box.