Bachmann B&O EM-1

[h-man]

to jtf-

YOURE 15!? wow. i rececntly just got 4 freight cars for 17.03. they were used but run well . my parents definitely wouldn't buy it for me (mom: that's way to much for a train). . my parents also do a chores thing. you do chores, you get cash (half my age in money ). it's not bad, but i don't make much. my b-day is coming up here in a few months, last year i got around 240 bucks. all good ideas man thx

-h-man

[RAM]

h-man.  Believe me, when you get to be your mother age. You will look back and say  "I remember when this cost X$ and now it is Y$.  That too much.  I can remember when a candy bar cost 5 cent and now it is about a dollar.

[jettrainfan]

Cracker barrel still has candy for 5 cents, good stuff too. Times were simpler back then too, even model trains were.

[Doneldon]

jtf-

Cracker Barrel may have nickel candy but, believe me, it's nothing like what we bought for five cents when we were kids. That was the going price for regular candy bars like Snickers and Three Musketeers and Payday. And those regular candy bars were larger, about the size of today's extra large or jumbo versions of the name brands. What a country!

                                                                    -- D

[GN.2-6-8-0]

1959.....Coke and pepsi were 10c with a 3c deposit, cigarettes 27c reg.gas 27c a gal premium 30c don't get us started. Oh and Iwas earning $1.05hr

[Doneldon]

GN-

I bought gas during a gas war in Minneapolis for 20 cents a gallon on June 29, 1973. I remember because it was the evening before I had to drive east to Washington, D.C., to enter the Navy. Gas was nearly half a buck in DC and it shot up to 80 cents during the first gas "crisis" later that year.
                                                                                                                                                                                                          -- D

[Penn_senseless]

This announcement is a game changer for me.

Thank you Bachmann for releasing this steam locomotive.

I was planning a model railroad based on the new haven between new york and boston. thats now out.

Sand patch or Cranberry grade.... here we come.....

For those that know about this steamer, there is a great old story by JJ Young riding in the cab of one of these monsters in the 1976 winter issue of railfan magazine.

[Penn_senseless]

And another thing to add for those of you, like me, that may need some "save up" time, and what i appreciate about the power of Bachmann product .

When the time comes, i know it will not only be available, but also Ill be able to find one. I cant say that about alot of other manufacturers today.

Make plenty of EM 1's guys. its a home run

[GN.2-6-8-0]

Here are pictures of the EM-1 that were posted of the NTS. B&O steam fans feel free to drool to your hearts content

[ACY]

I wonder which is longer the EM-1 or the schnabel car in the background of the photos?

[Doneldon]

I wonder which is longer the EM-1 or the schnabel car in the background of the photos?

Hard tellin'. Some of the Schnabel cars are almost custom builds for specific purposes. They can get very long. Of course the EM-1 is a big baby, too. I'd guess something approaching 120 feet.
                                                                      -- D

[Pacific Northern]

I wonder which is longer the EM-1 or the schnabel car in the background of the photos?

I just ran across this page on information on the EM1

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/yellowstone/?page=bo

I was very surprised to realize that the EM1 is the baby of the 6 yellowstone class locomotives.

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/yellowstone/

[ACY]

According to real life specs... 112.5 feet long compared to 231 feet long. The scale length of the model I guess we'll have to wait, but the Schnabel car appaears to be less than 231'

[J3a-614]

That 112 1/5 feet refers to total wheelbase of engine and tender; I believe actual length over couplers was closer to 125 or so.  Both dimensions are close to those of a Chessie Allegheny 2-6-6-6; both could fit (barely!) on a 115-foot turntable (standard maximum length on both lines), with considerable overhang at each end.

EM-1s and other B&O power in action, with live recorded sound, from the early 1950s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI99Dvpxo2w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV0-2xvmguY

No EM-1s. but plenty of other steam at speed in Ohio on the B&O:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbCFdocYkiA

An Allegheny on a table at Handley, W.Va.:

http://www.cohs.org/repository/Archives/cohs/web/cohs-21071.jpg

And a 7600 on a table at Cumberland:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo7622s.jpg

B&O photo roster, this particular page features a section on the 7600s:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/bo_steam3.html

While looking for 7600 photos, came across this site with more B&O pix:

http://picasaweb.google.com/IaconoDDS/BaltimoreOhioRR02

Not an EM-1, but a modernized P-7 4-6-2, clearly showing off the blue paint these engines wore after 1940; this modernized version is the prototype for the ancient Mantua 4-6-2, and this and other versions of this class could be made using an essentially unchanged PRR K4s mechanism, complete with the lacy valve gear:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/-uPZwDhmxyPw/Sxk5uVMeYPI/AAAAAAAArAQ/eh4beglT3ds/scan0003-1.jpg

Have fun.

[jonathan]

GN 2-6-8-0,

Thanks a million for showing us the pics!  Daddy like... Daddy like!

Notice a couple of things that impress me.  The over fire jets... on the prototype, there were three on the fireman side and four on the engineer side.  Bachmann caught a detail very few ever pick up... including me, until recently.  This may be a test locomotive (certain things incomplete).  However, they seem to have gotten some of the details you only find in brass.

The other thing I like is the optional sound unit.  Keeps the price down, yet still allows for a plug and play option if one wishes to go all the way (and I probably will)

Must have....

Regards,

Jonathan