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Discussion Boards => HO => Topic started by: obsmobile on March 26, 2010, 01:46:25 PM

Title: a request to you... please read and reply YEY or NEY
Post by: obsmobile on March 26, 2010, 01:46:25 PM
To the engineers at BACHMANN....
with all the beautiful new large On30 logging steam power you have out now... i would like to ask, in behalf of fellow HO logging fans... if you would consider making them in the HO scale.... as a HO'er and a collector of your HO Spectrum logging locos. i think the majority of us out here would jump on the opportunity to purchase those larger scale locos if they were in HO scale... (even for the guys in N-Scale would be nice ...)      I KNOW I WOULD... ;D

thanks.... :D
Title: Re: a request to you... please read and reply YEY or NEY
Post by: Daylight4449 on March 26, 2010, 02:25:19 PM
the problem with ho (and especially n) is the moving parts are susceptible to breakage.
Title: Re: a request to you... please read and reply YEY or NEY
Post by: Cody J on March 26, 2010, 08:08:51 PM
Daylight:
Isn't that the case for every HO and N scale steam locos?
Title: Re: a request to you... please read and reply YEY or NEY
Post by: the Bach-man on March 26, 2010, 10:49:20 PM
Dear Obs,
The Large Scale models are narrow gauge, so they don't translate to HO standard gauge.
We have made Shays and Climaxes in HO.
Have fun!
the Bach-man
Title: Re: a request to you... please read and reply YEY or NEY
Post by: J3a-614 on March 28, 2010, 12:14:18 AM
The Bachmann is right, the large scale engines are narrow guage protoypes, and wouldn't be really usable unless Bachmann were to enter the HOn3 or HOn2 1/2 field.  However, there were a lot of smaller standard gauge prototypes that might fit the bill of what you would like to see; they were discussed (and perhaps will continue to be discussed) on this thread:

http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,12286.0.html

Have fun.