Union Pacific Big Boy 4014

[jsouthworth0704]

Just starting out.  Has Bachmann ever made a Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 in HO scale?

[Yard Master]

Hi jsouthworth,

Bachmann has not made the Union Pacific Big Boy in any scale. We don't have any current plans to do so, but never say never.

[trainman203]

I'm afraid to count how many times that the Union Pacific big boy has been produced in HO scale, but I would hazard a guess of a dozen or more. 

The last thing we need is another model of a Big Boy, for two reasons:  1.  it's been produced too many times already, and if I'm not mistaken, one of the Bach Man's competitors is getting ready to bring it out again also.  2.  It is way too large to run sensibly on any layout except the largest room-filling or basement-filling layouts.  But when it does come out again, as it surely will from someone, we'll certainly see once again the same innumerable questions we've seen before about why doesn't it run on 18 inch radius tracks on my 4 x 8 layout?

I'm hopeful that the Bach Man continues his very sensible course of offering smaller and midsize locomotives in a Model Railroad world where virtually no one else does.  I have a lot of locomotives, but a large majority of them are Bachmann products because they are sensibly sized for my moderate layout.  All you have to do is check the competition and see that nearly all they offer are huge mama-jamas that need 36 inch radius curves or more to function properly and even look right in operation.

[Len]

How about a Spectrum quality Prairie instead of another unusable giant??

Len