Hi Mr bachmann when are you going to update the gallery?? the newest item is the forney!! the click here tag for new releases doesn't sem to do anything but put up the gallery Revision needed maybe

Hi Following the Climax failing in a host of sparks & hopping movements we found thet the contacts & springs had failed (5 years old) and upon examination one holder had melted away too. Having had to break the base plate to remove it (Screws too tight Mr Bachmann) we decided to reomved the pick up system, as only one wheel on the rear bogie carried current & change it for a pair of pick up sledges or skids on each bogie wired through plugs (for removal) to the body and link both bogies together for electrical continuity. It does mean it can now be chipped, the only non DCC loco in the fleet, and hopefully will give me more years of service than the original set up. It's worth the trouble because it's a great model.
Yeorail

thanks guys - i already have the Climax page in the hands of my repairer whose working on it and fitting DCC but I've just found a dealer with a new heisler in stock!!! may purchaseit and fit DCC as per the same advice site great one everybody

Can you give any information as to when the heisler will be reissue / revised - I need one, particulerly as my climax has expired with faulty contacts   

Does the reappearance of the Climax mean (Hopefully) that the Hiesler will be re-worked for 2012--I need one, DCC ready though. I note Germany still have some of the old ones on their Bachmann web!
A well detailed Spectrum small diesel would be nice too

Had great success this time the Digitrax DH123D is a small 2 amp decoder which is more than either draw and runs a treat. Fitting is just the two wires
how this helps others

Hi
Before i have another disaster over g scale decoders what advice do you have a) on decoder choice & B) on fitting decoders to both the above g scal models
Many thanks

Hi Another problem seems to be that pin7 is used in the Forney whereas all the 21 pin chip don't have that pin - so where do we go for #plug & play

Exactly my point - I have all Bachmann stock save 2 cars and they don't all couple up .As I said three locomotives three coupling types!

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Why does Bachmann have to keep changing the couplers for the Spectrum g scale??? 3 loco's - three couplers Original on Climax mates with all Large scale trucks, Shay brown couplers sometimes erratic and the fFrney lower will mate but loosely and a completely new coupler -Why??? Also why won't Aristocraft - in the same business group - also mate up with Spectrum?  Finally do they think we'll all change our large scale trucks to the new Spectrum ones just to couple up - they must be having a laugh.
yeorail

Hi, Whilst the Forney is a great locomotive, why do we all have to pay for the expense of optical chuff when I guess only 1 in 5 will add sound. Most like me would rather put that cash toward another locomotive also once you've heard it over & over it gets switched off anyhow! Likewise firebox glow & smoke, unless someone can produce a chuff synchronised smoke with plenty of the stuff so it looks like a steam engine not a diesel. Now you've gone to all the trouble to make a movable main chassis can we expect (Or hope for) a Mason bogie,please. Hell the forney is good though! Hey guys someone in Germany reads the page - Massoth have launched a syncro chuff -  looks fab see their web site OK

Sure there are up grades but not our side of the pond and why shouldn't it be fully upgraded it's been around long enough

Hi
Why can't the large scale "Annie" be revised to these standards? I'd have another two if it were!
Richard