Hopefully On30 becomes small again this weekend...

[HK Porter]

I will be at the convention this weekend, I have been in On30 for 12 years so i feel i have a decent knowledge of it.
Bachmann created a huge following and many cottage industries with the Porters and little critter
I really hope we get a Porter and Davenport DCC and sound upgrade and some simple short passenger cars ... in fact a whole line of new shorty stuff would be nice... stuff that can be altered and bashed and offers fun modifications by other small manufacturers like Backwoods miniatures and Boulder valley.

[ksivils]

In no way wanting to rain on your cloud HK, the balancing act I think Bachmann has to strike is between big and small. Probably for every On30 modeler who operates a micro-layout or a small layout built around Porters, the Shay or a Davenport, there is probably one modeler who uses On30 for poor man's On3, not to mention the On3 modelers who convert the Bachmann stuff to On3.

I do think after two large, for On30, locomotives in a row (while a small locomotive for a 2-6-6-2 - it is a large locomotive when compared to an 0-4-0 or 0-4-2), Bachmann probably will have something for the small industrial operations.

At any rate, the speculation is fun, even if not very productive.

[NarrowMinded]

I mentioned on another thread that I think a 0-4-0 sidetank porter would be a logical choice to fill in the spot between large and small, I would love to have some sidetank loco's to match my g scale loco's.  if they made them like the new generation large scale it would be pretty easy to stuff in dcc with sound.

NM

[HK Porter]

wow ..  Great day for the "small people" ...

[NarrowMinded]

Very good! I put dcc in porters and it is no fun at all, dcc with sound less fun. I'll likely be selling a few of the porters I have been hoarding and buy some dcc sound porters

NM