As I recall, the colonial railways of Malaysia and French Indo-China had some European-looking meter gauge Pacifics. The post-Independence Indian Railways had some impressive-sized ones.

Closer to the US, the Coahuila y Zacatecas of Mexico had some three foot gauge Pacifics, however, they were outside-framed and were later converted to 4-6-0s.

I can't help but wonder about Colombia and whether they had 4-6-2s. However, that's a country I'd prefer to railfan by builder's archive rather than visit myself.

I'm finding that what I'm hoping for from Bachmann is changing. In times past, I would have been beating the drum for an F&CC/RGS/SP ALCO 4-6-0. Later on, I started to hope that Bachmann would see its way to producing either a Tweetsie 4-6-0 or one of the gapped-driver Baldwin 4-6-0s once found on many narrow gauge roads. (Incidentally, some copies for the Tweetsie design were built for a Cuban plantation railroad back in the 1920's; sadly, they've since been scrapped).

I recently completed plans for a shelf layout with very tight spaces for yards and rolling stock, so I'm thinking about small locomotives, like it or not. Since Bachmann has to please Europeans as well as us North Americans, perhaps one of the small 2-6-2Ts built for the Allies during World War One?

In spite of it all, I also hope that Bachmann produces an outside-braced wooden boxcar of the style once found on the Oahu Railway and Land Company and on Central and South American railroads.

I'm planning to move beyond the shake-the-box skill level for On30 and want to provide new trucks and underframes for some conversions. I'd prefer to use Bachmann trucks, esp. the ones found under the EBT hoppers. Is the screw hole for the Bachmann On30 trucks the same size as the ones Bachmann uses for their ordinary HO bolsters, or will I have to buy a whole On30 car for sacrifice?

I'll admit that I'm also a Wonderland Express fan. I bought several of them back when I was first thinking of getting into On30, but hadn't picked out a road name of my own. The paint scheme grew on me and I ultimately decided that I didn't have the heart to run them through the paint stripper and paint and letter them for something else.

I wouldn't mind a second run of the Wonderland Express (preferably with new road numbers), nor would I mind it if Bachmann came out with an extra  two-door baggage car or a Silverton-style or other open-air excursion car to go with it.

As for the locomotives, (despite my preference for "basic black" howbeit with striping and a graphite smokebox) I'd hope for something DCC-ready that wouldn't be priced too high for someone just looking for a train set for their snow village or birthday sets.

I would also like to see an outside-braced boxcar in On30. While I know that there were a LOT of steel-sided outside-braced boxcars that were used in Mexico, Central America and Hawaii, I would like to put in a good word for the older outside-braced wood-sided cars used in those parts of the world. While the corrugated-metal roofing used on the Mexican and Central American cars might put off a lot of EBT purists, such cars could represent a much longer time period and a much larger geographical area--a lot of the Oahu Railway and Land Co. cars ended up in Central America, and other wood-sided o.b. boxcars lasted into the 1970's.

I don't know about Diamond or balloon stacks except for what I've read in the official Bachmann press release. I'm sure that somebody is likely to make an oil bunker for the 4-4-0's tender, either Bachmann or some after-market manufacturer.

Some of those 4-4-0s lasted a very long time. Gerald Best's Central American Holiday (Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS, 1960) (Long out of print)  showed a former Santa Cruz machine still at work in El Salvador in the late 1950's.