Mr. Bach Man - HELP!

[bnoem1]

Dear Mr. Bach Man:

Help us Mr. Bach Man, you're our only hope.  We n scalers are in great need of a quality USRA type 4-6-2.  DCC equipped would be nice, but the other maker of this model doesn't measure up to the detail and quality of Bachmann locos. 

[the Bach-man]

Dear BN,
Since we've just done USRA Mikes and Pacifics in HO I'd say it's a possibility.
I'll pass along your thoughts.
Merry Christmas!
the Bach-man

[in_eden]

YES! I mean... yes please.
I'll have several in B&O.
4-6-2 and/or 2-8-2.

Maybe Erie too?
I know. I'm Pushing it.

[brokemoto]

I'll have several in B&O. 4-6-2 and/or 2-8-2.

At least B-mann put correct numbers on these and the proper tender.  I would expect that if Bachpersonn does these in N, they would have the correct numbers and tenders.  Further, I would expect B-mann's to be better than the Model Power/MRCs.   Why MRC did not correct some of the glaring deficiencies in the old MP designs, I do not know.  They did try to compensate for the half-wheels live tenders by making the pilot trucks live, but that is poor compensation.  If I can swap the stock MP tender for a B-mann SPECTRUM tender, something that many of us smokeheads have done with the MP, MRC could have done similarly.  Further, I would expect that the B-manns would have separately applied handrails and other details, which is the current standard.

As a B&O modeller, I would be in for more than one pacific and mikado.   The MPs just did not get it and the allegedly "improved" MRC version ain't that much improved.

[RGPerkins]

Brokemoto et al.,
I also model B&O and have Bachmann steam locomotives.
I am very interested in the new 2-8-0 with dcc and sound that is forth-coming.
I hope to reletter a couple for B&O even though they many not be totally of the B&O style.
Delighted to they are coming. 

[brokemoto]

B-mann lettered and numbered its B&O 2-8-0 for an E-27, which was the most numerous and latest 2-8-0 on the railroad.  The B-mann locomotive does not look much like an E-27.  The most glaring difference is the cab., but there are others.  What is funny is that it does look much like an E-60, which was a Buffalo and Susquehanna locomotive.   The E-60s did migrate to the rest of the B&O.  When B&O sold the B&S in the 1950s, it retained the B&S locomotives that were on B&O property.