In a plead for a 8-18c.

[rich19]

Dusten, as you know I fully backup your request. It never understood why Bachmann ever released the OF 4-4-0 and the minute IF 4-4-0 particularly the the context of the abundance of which the 8-18c was deployed in the US and abroad.

Not only that the 8-18c was deployed by most of the narrow gauge common cariers. As trains grew longer and heavier after the 1890's, many 8-18c (as well as many other wheel arrangements of older construction dates) were bounced off and sold e.g. to logging roads. If you research the logging roads in the south (TX, LA, MS, AL) you will see that they only rarely deployed geared locomotives like Shays because the essentially flat land didn't require these specialised engines. Instead they rather bought old 4-4-0, 2-6-0, 2-6-2 and 2-8-0 ones and ran them until they literally felt apart.

An 8-18c can thus be used to model "old style" common carriers like the Colorado roads, any other common carrier in "flat" regions and even as 1930's logging engines.

Also I would have bought 2 - 3 8-18C's from MMI despite the high price and I believe that the high price is the main reason why so few pre-orders were received. Maybe the second reason being the "unserious" way how they produce: announce a modell without any garantuee that it will ever be produced and not giving any deadline or so. So you pre--order and than you wait for YEARS without knowing if the modell will ever be produced.

Even with the long lead times the Bachmann anouncements are delivered, the ARE delivered.

Richard

[Ken Clark]

    Checking MMI site, they announce the arrival of the 8-18C class for November 2011.


       Ken Clark
         GWN

[railtwister]

    Checking MMI site, they announce the arrival of the 8-18C class for November 2011.


       Ken Clark
         GWN

I hope no one is holding their breath!

Bill in FL