At a swap meet this past weekend I purchased a Bachmann 2-12-4. It tested okay on the straight test track, but when I ran it on my home layout the rear 2 drive wheels fell out of the axle shaft. I was unable to press them in tight enough to make them stay. When I checked Bachmann parts, they (of course) don't sell the 2-12-4 anymore. The iso diagram that is linked is for a 2-10-4. Will the wheel sets shown in the 2-10-4 diagram replace those on the 2-12-4 I have?
Dear 53,
I can't remember a 2-12-4 by Bachmann.
Is it a Chinese loco?
Thanks!
the Bach-man
1st Bachmann never made a 2-12-4
2nd No 2-12-4's were ever made for the North American market
The only real life 2-12-4's were ordered by the Bulgarian State Railroad as seen in the photo below. Only 20 were made.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/BDZ4603.jpg)
Photo by Ivo Radoev
Union Pacific however made 4-12-2's and they were made in HO
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/UP_9000_2.jpg/800px-UP_9000_2.jpg)
If you meant 2-12-2, only 2 were made (in 1941) for standard gauge in real life and were operated in Austria by the Deutsche Reichsbahn.
The only locomotives Bachmann made that I know of close to a 2-12-4 is the 2-10-4 and the 2-10-2. Are you sure you don't mean a 2-10-4 or 2-10-2? ...because it definitely was not a 2-12-4
Yeah, wow, I apologize. Obviously it's a 2-10-4. I never did well with the new math.....
And being a 2-10-4, my question has been answered, assuming Bachmann still sells the wheel sets.
Thanks gentlemen, I will proofread henceforth!
Bill
And of course they are sold out. Does that mean like "gone forever"?
And I don't suppose a Decapod wheel set would be a drop-in replacement, huh?
You like a lot of wheels?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-14-4
Now THAT's a lot of wheels! Excellent find.