Quote from: DustyMarie53! on November 13, 2024, 10:43:44 PMAgain, never said they wouldn't. The rep that talked with Streak Smeargle said that the chassis sharing did not factor into the announcement of Henry at all, just his popularity. Any potential design reuse or thought would come later when they looked at his cgi design. All I was trying to say is we shouldn't assume it will be reused until we see a sample or get official confirmation, which is what the user above did saying  "considering he's recycling Gordon's chassis without the trailing wheels" which has not been stated. Can't use the HO models as reference either because they're not CGI based. Could be different here for that reason. Personally, I suspect they'll still be reused anyway cause they're the same even in CGI, but let's not assume until any confirmation is given.

I'm sorry but it sounds like your friend isn't asking the right questions.  It too me sounds like they asked "are you making Henry because you have Gordon's Chassis?" And not "will Henry share the same Chassis as Gordon?" Or "will Henry reuse Gordon's Chassis?" I mean what exactly was the question they asked? Because it does sound to me based on what you wrote that was "are you making Henry because you have Gordon's Chassis?"

However based on the CGI Orthos, the history of the model series and how Bachmann made the HO there's 0 reasons why Bachmann won't reuse it again for N Scale for not only a cost effective production but also keeping consistent with the show. Why spend extra money on producing a new chassis tooling when you already have the perfect one in your arsenal?

Arguing about it just sows seeds of doubt and isn't helpful.

Again, never said they wouldn't. The rep that talked with Streak Smeargle said that the chassis sharing did not factor into the announcement of Henry at all, just his popularity. Any potential design reuse or thought would come later when they looked at his cgi design. All I was trying to say is we shouldn't assume it will be reused until we see a sample or get official confirmation, which is what the user above did saying  "considering he's recycling Gordon's chassis without the trailing wheels" which has not been stated. Can't use the HO models as reference either because they're not CGI based. Could be different here for that reason. Personally, I suspect they'll still be reused anyway cause they're the same even in CGI, but let's not assume until any confirmation is given.

Gordon and Henry have shared the exact same motor and chassis on the show since the series' beginning, and this carried over from both the model seasons over to the CGI series.  Bachmann took this exact same approach while making the HO Gordon and Henry models, as evident by the listings in Bachmann's part store.

I don't think "my friend who went to this show back x months ago" shows any real confirmation/de-confirmation or any real proof. Especially when based on the current track record, there's more evidence showing it'll most likely be the same chassis.

So Bachmann didn't intend to reuse Gordon's chassis for N Scale Henry. I thought it would make the most sense for Henry to reuse Gordon's chassis. It doesn't mean he won't reuse Gordon's chassis, but we won't know for sure until his unpainted sample is eventually revealed. I have no idea how different it could possibly be, barring the trailing wheels. Does this mean that Henry will 100% be a new tooling from Gordon? We know Edward will 100% be a new tooling once he's announced.

There is no confirmation Henry will reuse Gordon's chassis, in fact the Bachmann rep my friend talked to at the NMRA show in California outright said the chassis being reuseable is not something they had considered in terms of planning to make Henry. Doesn't mean it won't be, but best to not assume one way or the other until it's actually revealed. Time will tell and we still have two other engines to get through first. Their prices have been finalized for a while, so I am a little surprised we haven't seen the 08's yet. However, given they likely prioritized getting Gordon and Emily completed for this holiday season I guess it's not that surprising.

My biggest hope is to see the Open Carriage sample. It is I believe now the oldest product announced with no sample shown yet. DCC Thomas and Percy are older but since they're seemingly the same and have just hit a snag that's different. I have it and some of the humans figures on preorder and hope to be able to have them for next year.

Tomorrow will be the last Trainworld stream for the year, and will return in January 2025.

I hope we'll get to see stuff we haven't already seen, like new unpainted samples of anything, or Sir Handel fully painted. We'll most likely be shown Stanley's painted sample, which is already on the webstore. This stream should for sure show N Scale Gordon and Emily in packaging, as well as HO Scale Rebecca in the package. If Sir Handel's painted sample isn't shown, then all we can hope is for him to suddenly show up on the webstore like Stanley did.

Products still awaiting unpainted samples include the HO Scale Open Carriage, Bulgy, Narrow Gauge Gondolas and Gunpowder Wagons, N Scale Diesel/Paxton and Express Coaches. It's too early to expect a sample of N Scale Henry, but I can't imagine he'd take that long, considering he's recycling Gordon's chassis without the trailing wheels, so he's bound to have a sample sometime in early 2025.

You do each driver set one at a time.  Articulated locomotives like the big boy are really two locomotives under one boiler.

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I just double checked the consist setting and it was set to 5. After changing that to 0 the loco functions properly. Ok I feel kinda stupid now 

Hello everyone this one has me stumped. I use NCE and JMRI to run and program my trains but this loco will not move. All the "bells & whistles" work as they should as well as the lights but it won't move. Using JMRI to read the decoder the loco moves down the track so I know it's not the motor. Just for grins I decided to set the address back to 3 and used my EZ Command system to see if that made a difference but it did not. Out of frustration I started pushing each address to see if I could get movement and once I was on 5 the loco would move correctly BUT none of the functions would work. The RPMs would go up with the speed of the loco but nothing else.... What The Heck!!!!! I've never had this issue where a loco programmed to one address would work the functions but movement needed to be set to another address. I do not have consisting turned on and I'd rather not make a consist just for this loco.

Have any of you had this issue???

Thanks

Okay so we are prob gonna see some varients in 2025 here is a list of varients I could see happening
Pink Thomas
Gold Thomas
Streamlined Thomas
Bare metal Thomas
Turbo Thomas
Pink James
Percy's chcolate crunch
Green salty
Blue Bill
Blue Ben
Emily with 12
Silver Spencer
Scrap Oliver

Which ones would you like to see

Christian has already confirmed there will not be a Thomas Tuesday stream in December and will resume in January, would be neat if there is a New Model Monday but I think part of the reason Thomas Tuesday skips December is just because of how busy that season is, so idk if they'll do either personally. We should see this weeks stream announced today, or if not we'll see it was pushed back another week.