Hi Yardmaster & Crew,

A big thanks for this effort to add these manuals and diagrams.  Bachmann large scale steam locomotives have allowed many of us to model a part of railroad history that would have been impossible without the many historic locomotives you have produced. Looking back to 1988 it has been an amazing run for us large scalers.  The 4-6-0 Big Hauler started it all for those of us who were waiting for a US prototype locomotive in large scale.  The Spectrum Line has been nothing short of amazing. It has been a great ride and I am glad to have been along for it.

Loco Bill

Has anyone repainted any Donald and Douglas into Blue Donald and Blue Douglas?

I do like the idea of Toby's shed/barn. I do think that ffaquhar is a great station to make given how it appears in the classic intro from season 1-7 and is used for the outro credits from seasons 19-21 . Not to mention ffaquar is the area of Sodor the rev.w.Awrdy modeled . Ffarquhar could be reused for the Wellworth station .On the topic of that since we have both of the Harwick  engines why not reuse mathwaitte for harwick.

I do think if they do buildings again they need to have a large appeal appearing

retaining walls , sir tophamhatt office / MC bunn , intro bridge , Henry's tunnel portal , knapford church , crovens gate , watermill ,double engine shed ,Neptune refreshments ,and Mrs.Kinley  cottage  could really be cool to have.

For the kinley cottage they will only use that as the name and it just will be some background cottage that they actually have references for but painted in the colors of Mrs.Kinley  cottage.

I don't think there's been a release date confirmed for the Gondolas and Stanley yet but if I were to guess would be early Spring Human figures and G scale set will likely be sometime before that since they are already in package and Doug made it clear he wants the human figures out ASAP. Not really sure where the TR coaches will fall, might drop separately like Talyllyn herself.

2025 is already looking bright in terms of new releases for the line, last year before this big November (and potential December, may also be pushed back to January) drop we only had Beau and the museum coaches. We're already on track to beat that. Can't wait to see what people do with all of these releases. The human figures especially are going to help bring this world alive.

Also, really can't wait to see Sir Handel. Already have friends who are big fans of the character and are debating caving on the narrow-gauge line for him. He is going to be a huge hit I can already feel it. I saw Sir Hayden in person this summer and this Sir Handel model looks nearly dead on while also being so faithful to the character. Is it too early to say I think he is the best of the line? I cannot wait to see him fully painted

This topic has been moved to HO.

https://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php?topic=39201.0

Yeah once they do a platform they open up so much more possibilities with what they could do and what us modellers could make.
Toby's shed and the barn are both great ideas too.
Another possibility would be to introduce a small wooden platform like this. https://www.bachmann.co.uk/product/wooden-platforms-%28x2%29/42-0010
Bachmann scenecraft used to make this in OO along with the ramps so it wouldn't be hard to obtain the tooling for it. Then you could have a little hault to put Farmer McColl or Trotter on with their sheep or pigs, ready to be taken to market.
In fact with Toby's shed, the barn, a little wooden platform and the ability to get the corrugated hut that was in the range you'd have a pretty decent farm set up.

I've had the issue of being stupid before.

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Just about to arrive in stock are HO Scale Rebecca, 12-Ton Vans, Sir Topham Hatt's Car, N Scale Gordon, Emily, Emily's Coaches, and Henrietta. Products that will arrive between late December and early 2025 include the N Scale Emily set, Hannah, and the Narrow Gauge Slate Wagon repaints. All of those products were shown in the package. Even the HO Scale figures were shown packaged, but those will arrive sometime in 2025.

No painted sample of Sir Handel just yet. If he does not show up on the webstore by the end of the year, then we can hope for him to be shown in the January stream, or the 2025 catalog. We did get a better look at HO Scale Stanley, who had already been fully painted. Not yet shown in the package, but will be a 2025 product.

That's it for Trainworld for this year, and we'll see them again in January 2025.

Think you're just missing the china clay wagon and TR coaches if you want to count those for the shown category. The coaches are already confirmed for early next year.

So glad to see all the samples on to 2025 . Idk if a painted sir Handel will make the catouge hopefully he does .
Just as a review everything that has yet to be released that won't be out by the end of the year are the following
DCC Thomas set
Figure packs
Stanley
High side wagons
Sir Handel
TR coaches

Not shown yet
Gondolas
Gunpowder vans
Open coach
Tar tanker
Oil flatbed
China clay wagon
Sidney
Mainland diesel
DCC Thomas
DCC Percy
salty (updated mechanism)
Bulgy
N scale express composite
N scale express brake
n scale diesel
N scale Paxton
N scale Henry
N scale brakevan