...anything new in the boil for this year's NMRA convention?
Cheers NB
Dear Nick,
Absolutely!
We will have a detailed release the week of the convention for those of you who can't make it.
We will make people in all scales very happy!
Anticipate!
the Bach-man
Lovin' the On30 stuff!!! aka ET&WNC!!!!!!!! Thanks Bachmann. DC
Could the elusive Heisler be coming ? Not to hold my breath and that's for sure !!!!!
Sssssssshhhhh !!!! ::) ::) Don't mention the "H" word. We don't want to jinx its coming, now, do we?
Would be real nifty if one would be available with DCC & sound. Dreaming----
At the very top of my list is a wish for a SR&RL prairie (especially #24), followed closely by upgraded versions of the Mogul and the Porters with DCC onboard, and in the case of the Mogul, all wheel (including the tender) pickup and optional Tsunami sound. Next on the list would be some passenger & freight cars decorated in road names like Sandy River and Rangely Lakes to compliment the On30 Forneys, and also ET&WNC to match the ten wheeler. A Tweetsie intermodal car like the one Bachmann did several years ago in G would be great, too!
I really don't think I'm interested in a Heisler at all, unless Bachmann can cure the drive train problems so commonly seen on the Shays and Climaxes in both On30 and HO scales. Besides, I already own many more On30 locos than I can hope to use, anyway.
Regards,
Bill
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
Bill, I heard through the grape vine that the ET&WNC intermodel may be comin' now the longer coaches would really be nice!!!!! The Tweetsie had several and they were second hand so they would be very useful to alot of modelers. Are You Listening Bachmann??!!! Hmmmm. Dwayne Calloway
Oh yeh, AN ET&WNC hopper would be nice too ::) DC
I'd like to see a Tweetsie 4 wheel bobber caboose as well, though it may be too soon after the side door caboose's release to be a good choice right now. Bachmann did this car many years ago in G, so the research is already done...
Bill
Well, Mr. bach man, The wheels are rolling!!!! Hope you are reading these posts!!!!!!!!! D. Calloway :o
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 I am not wrong, The On30 coach was one of the favorite new products at MR when it came out a few years ago, and that got my attention. Then when the ten wheelers came out, I switched scales after almost thirty years in H.O. If Bachmann could cure the gear woes in some of the other models, and make some new cars that are longer and larger, They would make ALOT of people happy!! Happy people buy more models!!! :D The On30 Stuff is great and they could really expand the market with some models that would complement the locomotives they offer. I feel sure they know this to some level. The EBT The ET&WNC the D&RGW as well as many others had larger rolling stock. I have vented, I feel better. Dwayne Calloway
I scratchbuilt a Carson & Colorado drover caboose - sort of an oddball combine with a cupola that has a clerestory roof over the passenger compartment only (one of two, the other had a plain roof on the entire car and was the only one to survive to today). They're about 43 feet long, a tad too big for 18" curves but otherwise don't look bad. Have since decided it's too big for what I want to do, I sold my 2-8-0s and have the 2-6-0 on eBay now even though I'm not sure I want to let that one go.
Early 1960s RMC magazines are a wealth of drawings of 3-foot gauge cars; I picked up some mid-WWII Model Railroaders with drawings of some D&RGW cars as well - the latter have me tempted to try and do a reefer, perhaps subtracting 2 feet from each end to take it to 36 feet rather than 40. With Evergreen car siding and careful measuring it's pretty easy to bang stuff out and not spend a fortune on it.
That is how I have built my ET&WNC cars. The siding makes it easy,and the Bachmann frames and trucks make the cost easy too! The boxcars are 32ft and 37ft long and the flat cars are the same. Even the hoppers are 28ft,I think? D. Calloway
Lots of the Bachmann crew have been hanging out in Durango, learning how to work on Soundtraxx systems, or so they say. But there are lots of interesting freight cars in the Durango yard...
Personally, I would like to see some larger and more detailed On30 freight cars, like the newer LS cars.
Manager
Idea....RGS plow flanger 2 or one of the many D&RGW flangers!
Royce
^^^^ excellent idea
while we're dreaming big, how about a rotary plow?
I think you could convert the original caboose into a neat little plow. Just put a wedge blade on one end, a swing-out blade on the side opposite the angle of the wedge, and move the cupola to the end. Freelanced, but it would look "right" -
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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
The scratchbuilt cars I have builtfor the ET&WNC are either32ft or 37ft long,pulled behind the4-6-0,and run great on 18"inch,22"and 24"track. They use Bachmann trucks and frames.The short cars are ok for freelance RRs,but most other narrow gauges still used larger stuff.Besides, I don't think Bachmann will discontinue the smaller cars just because they "may" make larger ones. Theres room for all. ;) Dwayne Calloway
You know, if suitable data/drawings could be found, a Brooks or similar Porter 2-6-0 of the 1880 era would be a reasonable choice for a new locomotive. They're 3-foot gauge engines, but very small, and would require few compromises to make them 30-inchers.
Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf/Colorado Central had a number of these engines, which in turn had many secondhand owners. The Ulster & Delaware (New York Central predecessor) had four on their Katterskill branch - when it was standardized, two went to a parallell road (Catskill Mountain Railway) and two went into the Adirondacks to a Delaware & Hudson RR predecessor. One of the CMR engines lasted through at least 1910 out of service behind the enginehouse.
I'm sure others from this group led a similarly colorful life after the UP sold them off.
I know the Porter one there must be some sort of drawings, because Nitto of Japan did a static kit of one many years ago in 1/50th scale, which was imported and sold here by MRC in a series with a rickshaw, a horse-drawn streetcar, and a Concorde SST plane (yeah, ???) as the MRC-Nitto Transportation Series. Size-wise in 1/50 it works out to almost exactly the same size as the inside-frame 4-4-0 - the tender is just about identical. How much bigger it would be in 1/48 I haven't tried to figure out but I doubt it would be much.
The reason we don't ask for the early model Brooks is because it will jinx the model like the heisler request did...maybe if we keep our fingers crossed. 8)
Royce
Wise said, Royce... :) :) :)
No, I´m not going to mention the H-word again... ;) ;) ;)
Tom
I suppose it's a bit late for jinxing things this year concerning the H...r. We'll find out in a couple of weeks what we are getting this year. But, here's hoping !!!
Of course after I posted that, I found the info on those engines on Wikipedia conflicts what I have in the two books on the CMR and Ulster & Delaware - the info on Wiki only shows one western 2-6-0 coming to New York. I suppose unless someone has the company records in their attic, no one will ever know for certain.
As someone who does research let me tell you not to use Wikipedia as a reference. The material comes from unknown authors and may be good or wrong. Also, it is possible for anyone to edit the listing. I advise my students to use Wikipedia only as a starting point. Look to see if the Wiki article has references then use those.