While I agree that any EBT locomotives would look great in On30, I also wonder how much of a market there'd be?
They'd be much longer than the ET&WNC-pattern ten-wheelers, which might scare off many into On30 (as many in that gauge want as short as possible to negotiate tighter curves).
For the same reason Bachmann never made any of the post-1900 D&RGW engines (like a K-27 or K-36, which were monsters in size for narrow gauge), that's why I wonder if you'll see a EBT "very light" Mikado. I couldn't find anything on their exact length, but I don't think they were terribly short, which would mean they'd need to broader curves.

I heard from an online hobby magazine that there apparently was another run of Baldwin Class 10 'trench' engines coming out.
What road numbers/names? I'd love to see Bachmann come out with one in black and white Army lettering for the timeframe after WW1 until they stopped running them at the end of WW2...

I found the system that says it has #12's whistle, but it's not for on-board sound apparently...
https://soundtraxx.com/products/surroundtraxx

I can't recall who makes it, but someone makes a add-on sound system with recorded sounds from ET&WNC # 12 at Tweetsie RR.
If I had one without sound and needed it, that is for sure what I'd use!

Wow, good work, I can't see the cuts to the roof at all and the ones to the sides are hardly noticeable at all.
I'm apparently not in a majority for being into On30 as I like passenger coaches longer than Bachmann makes, but I must admit I like these shorties you've made.
There were real-life shorty cars, even in standard gauge. The Sierra RR had a few and they still exist:

The online Model RR Hobbyist magazine for October had a two-line announcement that said Bachmann was coming out with a second run of these locomotives:
https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/
I hope they make one that is far more accurate for the post-WW1 era markings. They should be black, not OD green!
Their 'WW2' one doesn't have very accurate markings for the type of stencil they used (don't take my word for it, look up the photos to see what I mean). But a black engine with those markings would still look more correct than that horrible OD green one, which wasn't used on a steam engine (the Davenport one at Fort Benning was simply painted with the same OD green paint they painted everything else with there outdoors but never was run in that color).

I have a trench engine 2-6-2T and thought I'd broken it in. But every now and then, it'll just stop for a moment, and sometimes the sound will just keep cranking along. The longer I run the thing, the more unreliable it is when I run it.
It's not dirty or poor connectivity track work, and it doesn't happen all the time. I looked at the wheels and they don't seem dirty.
It's always been iffy going over unpowered frogs, as if the 'keep alive' inside it doesn't know it should still be cranking past that. Bit again, sometimes it works well, other times, not so much.
Anyone seen this problem before?
I'd thought it would get better over time, but to be honest, it is becoming by far my most unreliable engine (as I only have the Whitcomb 50-tonner and the rest are the ten-wheelers, all with long footprints for contact and smooth running out of the box).
I'm starting to regret the good review I gave of it in O Gauge Railroading magazine at this point, even though the review paid for the locomotive and the details parts I put on it...

I agree that 22" is best, especially if you're only pulling something with it. I tell people on my own layout not to switch cars in most sidings with the front of the locomotive as that swings out pretty far, even on the 22" and greater curves on my own layout.
Keep in mind that the tender is shorter than Bachmann's standard freight car frame, if you're just using that end. And the center driver on the loco is blind (with no flange), but it'd look awfully silly going through something as tight as 18"!

Quote from: WoundedBear on March 11, 2020, 05:29:40 PM
I was just reading the review in NG&SLG.

Bob Brown writes the article and in it he claims that "it ran perfectly right out of the box" and that "the headlight and rear light work as does a firebox light"

We got some confusion somewhere.

Sounds like he wrote the review before he actually had it on a layout.
They're very stiff out of the box, though they do break in well.
I have a review in the newest O Gauge Railroading on these and I was far more honest in my appraisal of them...

Well, at least we know what happened now.
That explains why the ad copy for these never included anything on firebox flicker.
I still would have bought one, flicker or not.

Quote from: J. S. Bach on March 02, 2020, 12:02:13 PM
I do not think that it is any more expensive than quality HO, even less in some cases.

I agree. On another forum, someone looked at HO scale out of the box diesels in proportion to inflation. He found things really were much more expensive now than they were back then.
That said, the out of the box stuff is way better than it was years ago. Think of all the stuff you had to do to a "blue box" Athearn diesel, v/s how they are now.
How about Bachmann itself? When I first got into the hobby in the early 80s, the name wasn't very good in the hobby. I knew people who called it, "Botched, man" back then.
But look where Bachmann is now. Their out of the box stuff is amazing, especially the On30 steam locomotives!
Sure, it costs more than it used to, but you really get what you're paying for, now...

Well, going through the official website, it doesn't actually mention firebox glow/flicker
https://shop.bachmanntrains.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=487_673_1129&products_id=7110&zenid=840ko9s6p4bu3bmoeiurt2lkd4

Quote from: charon on February 28, 2020, 03:32:35 PMWhy hasn't the Bach-man responded to these posts?

Good question....

Quote from: gnfan on February 28, 2020, 10:22:25 AMAs near as I can tell there is not even an LED in the firebox or any place to put one. I looked over the parts drawings and the only LEDs are the front and rear headlights. It would seem that the documentation was done before the plans and before  factory got working on it. The documentation never got changed to reflect what was actually produced. To bad because the flicker would be a neat effect.

I just looked into it myself and I agree with you fully. It doesn't appear that they ever put anything into the fireboxes for a flicker at all.
Such a shame. The sound on these is really good, and the flicker would have really put it over the top for an out of the box steam engine...

David,
It's not just you. I did exactly the same thing countless times on mine, for the very same reasons.
I've posted the question on firebox glow/flicker elsewhere online, but of course it's people wildly guessing, none of whom own one.
Here, where I expected people would know how to handle it, nobody replied at all: https://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,36457.0.html
The instructions are clearly written for the trench loco, yet as far as I can tell, the flicker doesn't work.
Too bad because I really got excited about that. I've seen other people have flicker on their fireboxes and it looks great!