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Title: Strange variant of the USRA 0-6-0 (regular Bachmann line)
Post by: lvrr325 on November 13, 2007, 10:55:50 PM
So at a show last week I picked up what looks like the usual Bachmann USRA style 0-6-0, the older one with the split frame and pancake motor.  No tender, but some folks had a whole box of tenders and shells (looked like a leftover box from warranty repairs or something) so that was no problem.

Anyhow, this one has a 4-axle lead truck, making it a 4-6-0, and may have had another truck on the back - the seller told someone else it was missing a part.   Now I know this same basic engine was (still is?) sold as an 0-6-0 with a switcher tender and as a 2-6-2 using the tender from the Reading Consolidation - but was there a 4-6-0 or 4-6-2 version too?  I don't remember ever seeing one.   

I just nabbed it to repaint up for a local road and sell, I seem to have good luck with that, but it may just be that people like the looks of the quick and dirty paint jobs I give them.   
Title: Re: Strange variant of the USRA 0-6-0 (regular Bachmann line)
Post by: SteamGene on November 14, 2007, 08:29:47 AM
I've known Bachmann to make only a Prarie and a Mogul out of their USRA 0-6-0.  This is not to say that somebody else hasn't done some modification of their own.
Gene
Title: Re: Strange variant of the USRA 0-6-0 (regular Bachmann line)
Post by: lvrr325 on November 14, 2007, 10:55:14 PM
Actually, I answered my own question, I found someone had posted a 1983 Bachmann catalog online (that vintage HO site).  There was a version sold as a 4-6-0 with the shorty Vanderbuilt tender, in CN&W and SP versions.