Quote from: atlanticcentral on February 06, 2007, 09:51:36 AM
Gene mentioned the 4-8-2's being strictly passenger engines on the C&O, and that is correct. Same was true on the B&O. But on the NYC, PRR and dozen or so other roads in the east, Mountains where truely the first dual service locos and paved the way for the superpower northern concept. On NYC most of the freight trains going up the Hudson where pulled by their 4-8-2's which they caled Mohawk's.

And Bachmann has blessed us with two great Mountains and good selection of different tenders to go behind them. My Atlantic central has a large fleet of USRA heavy Mountains, some oil fired and some coal fired.

As others have said, we still need more 2-8-0's, 2-8-2's, 4-6-2's, these where the work a day locos of most railroads even to the end.

A few other ideas instead of giant wheelbase western power.

How about the DT&I super power Mikado?, these where just as powerful as the Lima Berk's.

Or any of the great Atlantics that moved name passenger trains all through the teens and twenties and then moved commuters and locals in the 30's, 40's and 50's.

Or what about a modern large boilered ten wheeler?

But we have enough Northerns and other long wheelbase, large drivered western monsters.

Sheldon

I was talking more about the 4-10-2. Not the 4-8-2. Bachmann already has plenty of those.

I also mentioned an Alton & Southern 0-8-0 would be nice. They had 3 cylinders which would make it an interesting 0-8-0.

I wouldn't mind seeing a Canadian Steam Hudson. They are very beautiful.

Quote from: Hoople on February 06, 2007, 10:59:53 AM

Quote from: SteamGene on February 06, 2007, 07:30:55 AM
He's already said.  Not in the plans.
Gene

Not in the plans? Well the plans aren't set in stone...

This is true. Things change all the time in the model railroad business. From my understanding, Bachmann (I thought) is suppose to listen to what the community wants. Or am I thinking of Dell Computers? lol ;-)

So what does the Bach-Man or another Admin have to say about these ideas?

Quote from: Hoople on February 03, 2007, 10:57:20 PM
A 3 cylinder 0-8-0?

Somebody needs a TON of power in thier yard...

If they really did, they'ed get that wierd mantua 0-10-0 for 50% off at my LHS...

Whats LHS?

Quote from: Hoople on February 03, 2007, 07:22:58 PM
Joe, it does seam like something along the lines of BLI producing it... But then the sound wouldn't be good and the price would be jacked up

I'll have to agree with Hoople. If BLI made a 4-10-2, it would cost too much.

I think its a great idea for an engine. Or some other 3 Cylinder engine besides a Shay. I know Alton & Southern had a 3 cylinder 0-8-0 switcher. I think I can find a photo:

Is it possible to put movies on here sense this is a new board? Say from something like Youtube?

One of my friends has a LokSound decoder in his Rivarossi H-8. To me, it sounds better than Sountraxx. I'm not sure how easy or hard it would be to install though.

Yes. Both would be nice. I'm guessing that a 4-10-2 would probably be more likely for Bachmann to build though.

This is a new forum, so I thought I would mention an idea of mine that some people were talking about on the old forum. My idea would be an Southern Pacific 4-10-2 for the Spectrum line of Bachmann. Some people didn't like the idea of a 4-12-2, because of the amount of wheels, which may not be able to take curves well. So I figure I would go a little less wheels and mention the 4-10-2. The engine has 3 cylinders. The 3rd cylinder and 3rd cylinder drive rod crank is located behind the pilot. This is an O scale picture of the engine: