I wouldn't be surprised if he gets announced in a year or two. I'm thinking that they will probably wait till Sir Handel is near completion before starting Duncan though.

I don't own one, but Sam'sTrains on YouTube has one, and in his video it works on 18 inch radius (technically second radius which is the same thing).

Hello everyone,

I have a Bachmann BNSF DCC Ready GP40 that I bought back in 2021. Straight out of the box it was a noisy runner, jerked along at really slow speeds and had a really bad lack of torch. When I first bought it and found this issue and oiled the model. This temporarily fixed the issue, but after a few months it ran poorly again. I opened the model up again and oiled it, but this time it didn't fix the issue. I stoped running it for a while, as I was sick of dealing with its issues, but not long ago I tried running it, and it seemed worse than before. This time I removed and cleaned every gear and linkage, and ran some rubbing alcohol through the motor, but this did nothing. After that I powered the motor directly, and it was still quite noisy, however it seemed more smooth (for obvious reasons I couldn't check the torch while doing this). I own three other GP40's from Bachmann, so I know this is not normal, as my other ones work far better. If anybody has suggestions to solve this issue, I would be happy to hear them. Thanks for taking your time to read this far!

For sure, will be interesting to see what happens to this line.

On the flip side of a range ending, does anyone think Bachmann will make an On30 line of products. They can't do O Scale, as Lionel own the rights, but would that apply to On30 as well?

I agree. Henrietta might be more of a possibility now with the introduction of Hannah, though I would expect to see Hannah made in Ho or N Scale first. Other than that though, I can't see much more being made in Large Scale.

I've never owned a Bachmann sound locomotive, but on most models CV 8 and 9 control that.

Hello Everyone, I'm new to the Bachmann forum as I wanted to talk about new announcements and give ideas seeing as the announcements will be made towards the end of this month.

For HO Scale, I'm thinking that the most logical locomotive to make next would probably be Stanley. He was in both the model series as well as the CGI series, and played a major role in a movie. He also stands out from the other characters since he is one of (if not the only) characters in the show panted white, which would mean that he would look significant different from the other models Bachmann has already made. I could also see Sidney and Fernando being made since they would use largely the same tooling as Diesel, Arry, Bert and Paxton. With the announcement of Rebecca, I could also see Nia being made, particularly since she is a character Mattel have been trying really hard to push. As for Whiff, before he was brought up, I had honestly forgot about him as a character. He never really appeared that often, and I know that the last time a toy of him was made was in the Adventures range, and if I remember correctly it really didn't sell that well. So unless I'm the only one that has forgot about him, then I really can't see Whiff getting made. The other character I thought of was Winston, as a G Scale version of him has already been made, although it might be hard to fit a mechanism inside him, while still having an interior.

In Hon3/OO9, the next model I can see being made is Duncan. He is the only one of the Original cast of Narrow Gauge Characters that hasn't been made other than Duke, and seeing as Duke was not in the CGI series I can't really see him being made. I'm also quite surprised that Bachmann haven't done any troublesome slate wagons yet, so that might be something to consider.

In N Scale, I would expect Henry next, same as everyone else, and I would also expect to see some normal open wagons, more troublesome trucks, and possibly another brake van.

For G Scale I honestly don't know if we will get anything big again. Doug already stated that Gordon and Henry would be too expensive to justify, and Edward isn't really a main character anymore. Doug also stated in a livestream with Trainworld that Henrietta would be too much to make since nothing from her tooling could be used on another model, so unfortunately I kinda think that says that it's the end of the line for large scale. If anyone else has opinions on that though, I'd like to hear them, and same goes for everything else I've mentioned!