HO Figures, Engineers

[fuchst]

I would like to encourage Bachmann to offer a set of seated engineers. Our locomotives need someone in the cab.  Kato had a great set but now it seems to just be Woodland scenics.  The Woodland Scenics engineer set is a mixture of seated and standing; with the standing figures mostly useless for "in the cab" use, the price is not good value for part of the product I will not use.   Other than Seated or standing passengers, this would benefit model railroaders more than many of the other sets, ie. policemen, people walking dogs, lovers....ect.

[trainman203]

Spectrum locomotives used to include the Cab crew.  No longer, victims of the economizing in the sound value era.

But, about scale figure figures.  I don't like them unless they are seated or standing still.  I read a long time ago that figures frozen in motion are distracting, passive figures being better to the scenes. 

[Len]

There are a number of "civilian" seated figures that can be repainted for use as engineers.  It's also possible to use a heat gun, for heat shrink tubing, to soften a standing figure enough to bend 90 degrees at the waist. You can try bending again at the knees, but I usually just clip the legs at the knees, since they generally are not visible anyway.

Len

[Ralph S]

If we were in a meeting, I would second that notion.  I too, would love to have a figure in the locomotive cab.   Basically, I'm getting of tired seeing my locomotives running around without an engineer/conductor, cause it looks like the moving locomotive is a "runaway".

By the way, I'll look into the idea of heat to bend some figures.