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Possibly a better candidate is a Kauai outside frame 0-6-2 saddletank -- three 30-inch gauge engines still exist at the Grove Farm plantation (2 operational!), and similar 3-foot gauge 18-ton "Bulldog Baldwins" are being restored for the new Kauai Plantation Railway. It should be easy to obtain documentation on these locomotives, and they would be a welcome addition to Bachmann's engine roster.
http://starbulletin.com/2000/07/08/news/story4.html
http://www.trykauai.com/KauaiPlantationRailway.html
On a similar subject, at the National Train Show I once again pressed Mr. Lee Riley and the Bach-man for a three-pack of 4-wheel sugar cane cars, similar to their boxed sets of mining and logging cars. The end bulkheads could be removable, so the sugar cane cars can also be used as "shorty" flatcars. Some cars from the Oahu Railway & Land Co. were once on display at Travel Town (Griffith Park, Los Angeles), but I don't know their current condition or location. I'm impressed with Bachmann's recent resin castings (wood fuel loads, pulpwood cargo, etc.), and removable resin sugar cane and sugar bag loads would be nice extras for the set. Sugar plantations were a major industry served by narrow gauge railroads, but so far Bachmann hasn't touched this subject.
And if Bachmann produces Hawaiian narrow gauge, why not a relabeled gondola car with a resin pineapple load for the Dole cannery?
Mahalo,
David
Possibly a better candidate is a Kauai outside frame 0-6-2 saddletank -- three 30-inch gauge engines still exist at the Grove Farm plantation (2 operational!), and similar 3-foot gauge 18-ton "Bulldog Baldwins" are being restored for the new Kauai Plantation Railway. It should be easy to obtain documentation on these locomotives, and they would be a welcome addition to Bachmann's engine roster.
http://starbulletin.com/2000/07/08/news/story4.html
http://www.trykauai.com/KauaiPlantationRailway.html
On a similar subject, at the National Train Show I once again pressed Mr. Lee Riley and the Bach-man for a three-pack of 4-wheel sugar cane cars, similar to their boxed sets of mining and logging cars. The end bulkheads could be removable, so the sugar cane cars can also be used as "shorty" flatcars. Some cars from the Oahu Railway & Land Co. were once on display at Travel Town (Griffith Park, Los Angeles), but I don't know their current condition or location. I'm impressed with Bachmann's recent resin castings (wood fuel loads, pulpwood cargo, etc.), and removable resin sugar cane and sugar bag loads would be nice extras for the set. Sugar plantations were a major industry served by narrow gauge railroads, but so far Bachmann hasn't touched this subject.
And if Bachmann produces Hawaiian narrow gauge, why not a relabeled gondola car with a resin pineapple load for the Dole cannery?
Mahalo,
David