Quote from: Loco Bill Canelos on May 16, 2020, 10:20:37 PM
Hi Ted,

I was wrong parts cannot be ordered right now
Bill

Really, really useful.  A spare parts department with no spare parts.  You really couldn't make this stuff up.

Quote from: Chris9017 on March 03, 2020, 03:55:17 AM
Cosmetic parts such as bells whistles, smoke stacks, and headlamps, domes, cabs, cross head pumps, and handrails would be nice to have readily available, but not as essential as drive train components, structural components, and circuit boards like cylinder assemblies, boiler assemblies, power trucks, motors, gear box assemblies, pilot, and tender trucks. 
I understand the lack of new inventory, but at the very least, we can have replacement parts readily available to keep our older engines in working order as parts and components wear out over time.  And some of those parts that have run out of stock, are not being re-stocked, and the parts department is almost never helpful over the phone, so it's very disappointing that not only the new inventory is lacking, but the lack of availability of replacement parts inventory. 

I have never found ANY pat that I need in stock.

and here in UK, buying another loco to keep one going is just not cost effective.  Would YOU pay $500 for an older Climax, plus maybe another $50 for shipping?

You hear all kinds of opinions about one brand of sound systems over another, but having had my Annie since they first arrived here in UK, I think it's time to upgrade it somewhat and fit a suitably impressive sound system.  I guess that I'll be directed elsewhere, but it's worth a try.

tac
OVGRS.org

Left to right as you are looking at the picture -

Bachmann logo and word 'BACHMANN' over the word 'WELCOMES'

B over 'YOU TO THE'

I over '18th ANNUAL'

N over 'BIG TRAIN SHOW'

G over 'ONTARIO,'

O over 'CALIFORNIA'

You'll note that nothing there has any connection with Bingo.

tac
OVGRS

A fellow LS modeller has acquired a G scale gondola from the 2008 LS show in Ontario CA.  The word BINGO fills every one of the panels except the one at each end with the show logo on it.  Can you tell us what the letters stand for?

Thanks.

tac
OVGRS

I have to say that that is a pretty useless comment. 

tac

Me, I'm sitting in my little backyard here in rural Cambridgeshire UK, watching three Shays [a three- and two, two-trucks] a Climax and a Heisler, trundling around my little railroad with their loads of home-built skeleton log cars, and just being grateful that Bachmann had the guts to bring them out in the fust place.  In their time, and probably even today, the three-truck Shay was THE most complex large-scale model ever mass-produced.

My Connie is currently 'resting' on a spur.........

I'm still amazed and delighted that these wonderful models ever happened at all, but like many others, live in fear and trepidation when it comes to replacing parts of any kind.  I've never had any help at all from here in UK,and get ignored when contacting Bachmann in the US of A, so what are we to do?

tac
Ottawa Valley GRS

Now that 3D printing is becoming ever more popular - and economical - this HAS to be the way for hard-to-replace factory parts for models that are no longer in production.

The ever-increasing number of items for our large scale trains is impressive - here in UK we have a small company that makes all kinds of add-on detail parts for scratch-builders, particularly those who build lokies and similar little diesels.

It's an interesting time to be alive in LS, that's for sure.

tac
OVGRS

I lucked into an unused Oregon Lumber three-truck Shay last week at a sale of unwanted trains.  Sadly, it has an onion stack and just looks wrong to me, it being oil-fired.

No help from Bachmann here in UK, so does anyone out there have one they could exchange mine for me, or even take $$$ instead?

tac
OVGRS
POCR

Dear Bach Man - today, as the rain had stopped, and the weather became somewhat kinder, I decided to get all my Bachmann Spectrum locos out, and make them ready for the coming year.

Being somewhat impetuous by nature, I bought every single one of my few locos almost instantly as they came out, even though some came from the USA and I live mostly in UK.

1.  My original 38 ton Shay, still with the original trucks fitted to it, and still running like a watch.  Came all the way from San Diego around the turn of the century.

2.  My Annie ten wheeler, now almost seventeen years old.

3.  The Connie, bought the day I read the review.

4.  The Heisler - the same as above.

5.  The Climax, a week old, and unwanted by the guy for whom it had been bought as a gift - he wanted an American loco that looked like a loco, bot something he'd never seen before.

6.  The three-truck Shay, also bought the same day as the review was published.

All are lovingly cared for and treated kindly, and appreciated for what they are - exquisite models of a kind that we'll probably never see again.

So if any of you out there have one or all of these fine models, treat them well and they'll repay the care.

Thanks, Bachmann, for almost seventeen years of the finest-detailed railroad fun.

tac
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In support of Bachmann UK, not only was every one of my seven LS Spectrum logging locomotives bought right here in UK, but the replacement metal gear set for my non-logging Connie also came from Hinkley, Bachmann UK's headquarters.

Nothing else, mind, but at least they had what I really needed at the time.

tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
POCRR Extension of the OML

o.

That's sad, Zubi.

All I wanted to do was to update three of my Shays.  I guess I can copy those on pal Broos's Shay and save a lot of grief.

All the very best to you over there.

tac & ig
Ottawa Valley GRS

That colour suits the combine to a 'T'.  An 'old' colour for an older car looks good to me.  Well done, Sir!

tac
Ottawa Valley GRS

I'm trying to get a few bits and pieces for my Shays [I have four], Heislers and Climax and have wasted way too much of my precious time trying to get them over here in yUK.

New or used is fine by me - at least three air tanks for a start.

tac
Ottawa Valley GRS

Over the last fifteen years or so I've lost count of the decals, some of them unique, that Stan has made for me.  He IS Mr Decal.

Another possibility is outdoor-safe thin-film vinyl, made by Del Tapporo.

Either gets my 100% recommendation of their kind.

tac
Ottawa Valley GRS