Wow!!! That thing is BIG!!! Now, let's see...how about a Union Pacific Gas Turbine..with an actual jet engine in it? (They make actual jet engines for R/C models of jet aircraft now, they average about $5,000.oo each). Or, how about a Union Pacific DDA40X? (or is it DD40AX? anyway, you know which locomotive I mean), with two weedeater engines under the hood?   

Thanks for the link to the photos! And, Thanks, Kevin, for the link to Iron Creek.  I've talked to him before...but it has been some time ago.

Rick

Here is something that I have always wanted to attempt to build from scratch.....now THIS would be a major project!!!!

How about 1:20.3 STANDARD gauge? (I believe that is 2 1/2" gauge, Number 3 Gauge track)?

I was kind of thinking about Amtrak P42 locomotives and Superliner cars! Wheee!   (I actually did some scaled up side vew drawing of these ...and they came out being BIG!...BIG REALLY BIG!). How about LIVE Diesel? Yeah, I know, it has already been tried...Live diesel in Large Scale...1:22.5? 1:32? or...I forgot what it was, but it was a GP-9 locomotive, and was about $3,000.oo. Somewhere I still have the ad in a magazine for it.  This whole idea...1:20.3 Standard Gauge...would be quite an undertaking, for sure!   but it sure is an enticing concept!   

Rick

I'll agree with the W.P.&Y. #4.
..also, alarger Shay...modeled after the former West Side Lumber Co. engine that is now Yosemite Mountain & Sugar Pine Railroad #15.
...But...
like I said in another topic....the one I REALLY want is a K36 or K37...(maybe even lettered for the Cumbres & Toltec?).
...
...OK...how about ALL of the above?!!!
...and ALL of the ones everyone else has mentioned too?

Rick

Thanks to everyone for your responses on my question here, now, the next trick will be to magically invent some way to be able to afford some of the Jackson and Sharp cars, (Whew!...that's going to be a challenge!)...I wish I could quickly come up with a plan to sell ALL of my HO...which I have never used, and some of my N scale...almost all of this is Canadian Pacific or Canadian National, but not all.  I hope the Jackson & Sharp cars will be available for a long time to come yet...I'm going to need time to get the money together.

Rick

My LGB D&RGW passenger cars definitely look too small behind the K27.

Rick

Hi Don,  I really like the Mogul too. I wish I could buy ALL of the engines I like! When I really got excited about Moguls was way back when I was in my teens and twenties...and always dreamed...NOTE: "DREAMED" being the operatative word here!...of building the 1 1/2" scale, 7" gauge..or GASP, the 3" scale, 15" gauge....Mogul from the Winton Engineering catalog! WOW!!! What an incredible engine!!  Never mind that I could never in a million years afford it, or have anywhere to run it...but WOW! What a beauty!....I still have that Winton Engineering (Winton Brown) Catalog to this day....stoed in the same place as my Little Engines Inc., and Railroad Supply Corp. catalogs.  (Never mind that I also planned on a career as either a Bush Pilot or Airline Pilot...but my eyes stopped that).

Rick

Hi guys. I need to know, are there are any AFFORDABLE passenger cars in 1:20.3 scale that would be the correct cars for the K27 locomotive? I've seen the ads for the coming Accucraft Jackson & Sharp Coach, (which looks beautiful), but, for now...more than I can afford.       I have a few of the LGB yellow Denver & Rio Grande Western passenger cars, (which are too short in length, and too small of scale for the K27).  I'm sure that by the time I can come up with some money for even one of the Jackson & Sharp cars...they will be gone,...or, are they going to be a regular run item? Does anyone know?  I'm hoping to have some 1:20.3 passenger cars...coach, baggage, observation/"business"/lounge cars. I'm overwhelmed by the prospect of building them myself. ...way back in 1984, when I bought my first LGB D&RGW passenger cars, I cut up three of them to make two cars that were closer to the correct length. I am much more into passenger trains than freight trains. Any sugggestions or info on this?  Thanks!

Rick

Hi JD, Yeah, I did get the foam out of the cab. The piece on the Engineer's side was a real bear to get out....I had to carefully pry up on it with something from behind and under it, and pull it out through the cab window. One thing I haven't figured out...yet...is how you are supposed ot be able to get 1:1 scale fingers into the cab to have any hope of moving the 1:20.3 scale Johnson Bar!   Have you succeeded at that yet?
Wouldn't it be cool it there were a servo or mechanical/electrical linkage connected to it, so that when you change direction of the locomotive, it would move on it's own? Of course, if it had a feature like that...you would want it to be something you could select to have on or off.

Rick

Hi Bach.man and JD,

Thanks for the replys!...Like I said about not wanting to sound too dumb...whell, here goes....
I hadn't unwrapped the plastic packaging around the wire bundles yet...and wouldn't you know it....there is the drawbar wrapped up along with the wire bundles!  Wheee!...I should have looked first. 

Rick

Hi Cale,
Not to NOT go with the crowd...  ....but, I deliberately didn't buy a Bachmann 4-4-0 when they first came out...and still don't have one now...because I was always HOPING that they would do a K-something, (27, 28, 36, 37, or?)...so I passed by the 4-4-0, (which I knew I wanted anyway), but I'm not what one could call rich....so I kept saving my money for a K engine.  Now that I have a K27,...NOW I will start saving for finding the 4-4-0 next.  (and, after that...start saving for a K36, K37...and HOPE they will make that locomotive...but, for me to start saving for it NOW). So, at some point, I will still buy a 4-4-0.

Rick

Hi guys. I hope I don't sound too dumbe here...but I have a question that should be so simple and obvious ...that I might just be overlooking something...or have a part missing...
...How do I connect the tender to the locomotive? I see in the exploded view drawing of the parts, an item with the number MT80Z on it...that looks like it should be a bar, steel?, with a hole in each end of it....that looks like it should be the drawbar to connect the locomotive and tender together....However, I cannot find that item anywhere at all!! Is it hidden under the locomotive or tender in a place I haven't discovered yet? I haven't found it in any of the parts bags either. ...and, I KNOW that there needs to be more holding the two together than just the wires!!! I hope that I can get Bachmann to send one to me....until I get this figured out, I can't even run my locomotive at all   Please help!  Thanks!

Rick

ey Matthew and Paul,

Thanks for the "heads up" on the Engineer figures!  Now I'll have to pick one!

Thanks again!

Rick

Hey Bach-man!

Thank you!...you're doing great! Keep it up!.....

and keep us informed on the above mentioned parts!

Thanks!

Rick

I looked at the the photos of Sherman Pippin....and that is definitely who it is supposed to be, it appears!  However, that figure in the model locomotive cab on that web site is definitely not the Engineer I received with my K27. The Engineer I received looks more like a "100 year old baby"    I don't know how else to describe it...the facial features have the chin and mouth of an old man, but a very round face and "bubbly cheeks" like a baby...with NO features painted...and incredibly little detail...more like a toy from the old Five and Dime Store....even the Sir Toppem Hat that I have with my Lionel G Thomas looks more realistic than the Engineer I received with my K27!!! I definitely need to fire this Engineer....or send him back the the Day Care Center...and find a REAL Engineer! Does anyone know of any source of decent (more realistic) looking Engineers is?  I don't buy the Woodland Scenics figures....not that they aren't nice....but they look too much like caricatures than realistic, in my opinion.....they look kind of like the drawings in the Leanin' Tree Old West artwork/greeting cards.

Rick

I cannot even remotely imagine how, in any way at all, that Bachmann making a K36 or K37 would, by any stretch of the imagination, "be a recipe for bankruptcy". What is the logic or reasoning on this? I believe that it would be even MORE successful than the K27...I would actually try to buy TWO of them myself!!!...(and I am far from being rich).  In what way could it even remotely be considered, "....a recipe for bankruptcy"? I'm totally confused here. I have been into model trains for more than 45 years...and I would gladly pay good money for a Bachmann Fn3 K36 or K37....even more than one of them!

Rick