Hi all,

I lost a part from my 84901 Ten-Wheeler tender - it's the little add-on thing (back-up headlight?) fitted with a hook (or rather a pair of hooks) which goes hung on the back coal sheet of the tender.

- does anyone know the part number? I don't have the instruction sheet with me...

- does anyone have one spare and is willing to part with it? I'll pay postage on it.

Cheers Nicholas

The prototype for the B'mann 2-6-0 is a Green Bay & Western loco - there is a drawing of it on Kalmbach's "Steam Locomotive Encyclopedia". It looks OK for me on the pictures - certainly an excellent candidate for a cane loco.


Cheers NB

I think I have to contradict Mr. Bach-Man... the OF 4-4-0 is a model of Oeste de Minas #21 and #22. They were built in 1891 as per the previous message and substantially rebuilt over their careers. Bachmann's model captures the general look of the locos as they are today (2010). The 1940 date quoted must the the date for the last rebuilding of the locos.


Cheers NB

re

Quote from: Dusten Barefoot on June 21, 2010, 01:16:08 AM
How'bout updating the whole lot. The larger locomotives could use a larger load. Not to sound rude, but I'm tired of the small train cars dwarfed behind my 4-6-0. I think larger more modern, but not too modern equipment is needed, and have them letterd ET&WNC/Linville, and the other new or old road names.

Rock On!
Dusten

If B'mann starts coming out with larger equipment I'll take my $$$$$ elsewhere. I really don't need nor want yet another 3000-series boxcar - which by the way, wouldn't take the 18" radius (and sharper) curves that most B'mann stuff takes with ease. Equipment size is good as it is, however you are right, it could get some better detail.

As for the Tweetsie stuff, the Gazette ran plans for one series of boxcars, they were (in height and width) smaller than the Bachmann boxcars, but longer - a sausage...

Cheers NB

My wish would be for a "large" tank loco, either a 0-6-2 or 2-6-2. Could be either a T or ST. A Aussie "NA" would go well in this direction.

A tender 2-6-2 would also be OK. As for the Mogul I would like to see a totally different new loco, something slimmer along the lines of the United Fruit Co. engines (which had both 36" and 30" iterations), also to break away completely from the "toy train" stigma of the original loco.

As far as my modelling goes geared locos leave me cold.

Cheers NB

...anything new in the boil for this year's NMRA convention?


Cheers NB

Quote from: ebtnut on May 24, 2010, 07:17:56 PM
That's neat film, but what REALLY got me was the use of link-and-pin couplers, in 2007!!  I like the loco. It appears to be a Baldwin - Maybe 1920's or '30's vintage??

Earlier, much earlier - some of the locos date from the 1890's. They were rebuilt in the 20's-30's, in some cases so extensively that they hardly resemble their BLW builder's pics.

Cheers NB

Quote from: Linzthom on May 01, 2010, 10:35:47 PM
There would have to be compromises in every direction for this to work. After all, those light railmways were around the 2 foot/600mm gauge and wouldn't be true On30 models which everway you look at it.

Lindsay (NZ)

Yes, but not quite... remember, after WWI most of the equipment was sold off to new owners. Many of the 4-6-0s and 2-6-2s were disposed across the world and a large number were regauged in the process. Indeed, the last batch of Hunslet 4-6-0s were made gauge-adjustable because the WD knew that the war was winding down and that it would have to dispose of equipment after the Armistice was signed. After the conflict was over the WD set about disposing of the stock through dealers, incredibly enough some equipment passed from the builders to the WD and back to the builders (or also to other loco builders and dealers in case of the Hunslets) without having ever turned a wheel in war service! Several Hunslets were regauged, one unit was regauged all the way to metre gauge without much cosmetic change. So it would be quite plausible to have a BLW 4-6-0T or Alco 2-6-2T as a On30 loco, so long it it depicted in "post-war" condition.

Cheers NB

http://loggingmallets.railfan.net/export/ingenio9.htm

The Ingenio Angelina loco (the prototype for the B'mann loco) was a true Mallet (compound)... ergo the exhausts should only register 4 beats per revolution.


Cheers NB

For me, none of the above... a 2-6-2 or 0-6-2T or ST...RFSL management is EAGERLY waiting for one!


Cheers NB

Now that B'mann has created the 44ton locos and managed to shoehorn a motor into it, I believe that both projects will come "on" again...although I belive that the R&D department should consider tender drive for both locos - Fleischmann has been using it for decades and their locos run like clockwork...


Cheers NB

"Fiddletown & Copperopolis"? The railroad as the cartoon itself? Bachmann makes all the elements - 4-4-0's, 2-8-0, geared locos, railbus (you can recreate the cartoon of the "natives" giving the railcar salesman the "blanket treatment" - http://narrowmind.railfan.net/Railbus/F-C-McKeen.jpg - or the inauguration of "Leaping Lizard" service - http://narrowmind.railfan.net/Railbus/F-C-railcar.jpg).

Cheers NB

Quote from: BIG BEAR on January 24, 2009, 04:09:18 AM

     What are you kids thinking. I left HO to get away from Diesels. Please Bachmann, don't waste your efforts on Dieselizing On30.

      Enjoy,
         Barry

Hey Barry, while you are getting out of diesels some people (like me for instance) would dearly opt for a NG growler... I like modernized NG railroads, with "big" diesels, steel cars and heavy trains, a "big" growler would find a sure home here! Like the GE UM6B locos once used in South Africa, 4 to a train lifting 600ton + loads up 3% grades on rails only 24" apart...pure magic!

Cheers NB

No Kevin, it's just the fact that the NGG16 is as associated and unique to the SAR as the K-27 is to the D&RGW - an iconic locomotive which would be difficult to "justify" in other situations (other than tourist roads like the WHR). I would like to see a "generic" Garrat, one which would look at home be it in South America, Africa, Asia, the UK - or the US, why not?The Bachmann Consolidation of Garratdom... The G42 has some elements of this "generic" Garrat and would be a good choice, but the SLGR locos (in their later guise, with electric headlights) are my firm favorites as 30" gauge Garrats go.

Cheers NB

Dear Mr. Bach-mann, what do you think about a giving us a GE 70ton loco? After the release of the 44ton loco, there is no tech excuse for not doing one...
Cheers NB