While I was doing On30 for a few years, I didn't pay any attention to what Bachmann was doing in HO. Now that I'm back with HO for a while, I was looking at different HO passenger cars. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Bachmann came out with "new" old time passenger cars with a full clerestory like the On30 Jackson Sharp cars.
I just wanted to say that I really like them. Especially the ATSF colors. I bought the combine. Now I have to get the baggage and a few coaches. They will look nice behind my ATSF 4-4-0.
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If you replace the handrails and truss rods with scale sized wire items, you actually have a very nice car. The carbodies themselves are very nicely and crisply molded with sharp detailing, including even the corner mounting brackets for kerosene marker lamps.
I really like the new B&O pass. cars in the 2020 catalog. I will get the new ones, as they should look very nice with my oldtyme B&O 4-4-0. Got my eye on the smoothside cars as well.
Regards,
Jonathan
I ordered a baggage and three coaches. I agree that different handrails and truss rods would look better with wire but I doubt that I will do that.
The handrails are glued. If they didn't pry out, then I would have to break them off and redrill the holes. I would have to find metal rails that match the hole spacing. The truss rods and queen posts are all one piece. I would to have to find the right size posts and rods from somewhere.
If I had just plain wire and bent railings and rods myself, I guarantee that no two of them would look alike and I would still have to find the posts.
Custom Finishing makes three different styles of Queen Posts. Just add wire.
http://www.toytrainheaven.com/.sc/ms/sch/ee?search=HO+Queen+Posts&go.x=0&go.y=0
Len
I know they are out there. I just don't want to start messing with perfect good cars and have them end up looking like somebody tried to modify them as in me. ;)
My car is a rescue dog, a combine too, a beat up shell someone was going to throw away but gave to me instead. It was painted in a god-awful neon circus scheme of some kind.
First I gave the car the Pullman Green paint it deserved.
I made my truss rods and handrails out of an old .012 guitar string. I kept the old queen posts in place, trimming out the rod part and making a notch to receive the new wire truss rod. Also added a good brakewheel and staff on each end.
I'd put a photo up but me and flicker don't get along.
A suggestion to Mr. Bachmann - please do the old-time round-end roof passenger cars in coach green or Pullman green. And maybe letter them Ma and Pa to go with all those nice 4-4-0's and 4-6-0's. Please?
Seems like I remember those 1860's open platform cars being offered in undecorated Pullman Green. Check eBay now and then. I painted one Pullman Green and upgraded the handrails and truss rods, came out nice.
Yes, the 1860's cars with the duck-bill roof come in green. All Bachmann needs to do is swap out the roofs since I'm sure the bodies are all the same.