I do hope Bachmann will consider Hiro as an upcoming HO locomotive. It actually blows my mind how Rebecca was chosen to be the next big tender engine before him. Hiro's a very well established, fan-favorite character who also has global appeal.

 Not to mention Bachmann has the potential to produce two models from one tooling if they were to produce a "good as new" Hiro and then a "patchwork" Hiro- which I could see being just as popular (if not more) than a standard Hiro. Overall, I'd say Hiro would be a very wise new tooling investment for Bachmann.

Wow, 7 years later!

I think you need to get some decals and re-do what you can buy!

Greg

Shucks,  still no Canadian (or Mexican) themed Egg-Liner.

Although the tongue-in-cheek versions;

Football,  Bumble-Bee, Merry Christmas,  have some potential. LoL 

Yep, also received the teaser email up here, too !

And now as soon as I see this latest version of the line, "free standard domestic shipping"  I just focus on the 30% off aspect.   LoL 

Although if still a regional source with item of interest in stock as comparison,  the shpg costs the last 3-4 yrs. tends to destroy the alternate direct' source deal. 
Even with the brokerage fees & shpg the regional source asking price has embedded.      8-(

Costs (and challenges) of a Railway   LoL

I really like the idea of a Sodor "VIP" pack featuring the more famous characters on Sodor.  There's a lot of great options that would work for that pack.  Announcing a figure pack with Awdry next year for the 80th anniversary would be one of those poetic announcements that would be an all around solid choice.  Hopefully we can get passenger packs and other packs featuring dock workers or quarry workmen.  Construction workers with Miss Jenny would be great too, hopefully those can announced alongside Jack and other construction vehicles, which I wouldn't rule out since we have Bulgy and STH's car on the way.  Though admittedly I would prefer Trevor being picked first before the pack characters but that might just be me.

I would also love to see the figure packs introduced in N scale as well one day!  I think that the HO ones will sell really well (at least based on the responses I've seen on the figures so far), so I would be completely open to seeing some of the packs make their way into N scale in the future. 

What are the newer Heavy weight and light weight passenger car truck side frames mad out of? 

I have 9 old spectrum heavy weights and most of them have an issue with the truck side frames having zinc rot.

I am very hesitant to purchase any of the newer Bachmann passenger cars.

Thank you.   

Received email. Enjoy.

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No response from service center even after 3 e mails ?

Is it on the bottom of the roadbed molding?

I may be overstepping boundaries here, but have y'all thought about putting N-scale motors in the "Early Locomotives" in HO and putting Z-scale motors in the N-scale shells? That way you just have to sharpen molding details. I think the technology is already here...