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Hi everyone,

The 2025 Mid-Year Announcements brochure is now available to read online.

https://resources.bachmanntrains.com/2025MidYear/

You can also check out the announcement video:

Dear Thomas & Friends board,

We have received notice recently of some board members receiving harassment on other websites about their posts and opinions in the Thomas & Friends threads, particularly in the suggestions and predictions thread. We cannot control what others say and post on other sites and social media, but we have also noticed that sometimes arguments will develop on the forum that have led to personal attacks. We would like to remind everybody of this section from the forum's Code of Conduct:

QuotePlease keep your posts friendly and on topic...  As with any discussion, disagreements will occur, we ask that your responses are respectful.  Name-calling, bashing, or any other form of cyber bullying will not be tolerated.

Please keep this in mind in your discussions. If you see another user harassing others or yourself on the forum, please use the "Report to Moderator" button to alert the forum moderators. If you experience harassment from a forum member that is not on a forum post (on another site or in personal messages), please send the moderators (myself, @3rail, and @The Bach-Man) a personal message. We will take action accordingly to either warm or ban anybody breaking the forum rules. If we continue to see and hear about harassment or uncivil discussions, we may also lock any thread where they are taking place (including the suggestions and predictions thread.)

Also, please remember that any new product news and announcements will come directly from Bachmann on our main website, Facebook, YouTube etc., and that anything not posted directly by the company is purely rumors and speculation.

Thank you for your attention.

Hi Large Scale fans,

We're aware that a number of hobbyists are looking for instruction models and parts diagrams for older Large Scale locomotives. We are actively looking to get these documents uploaded as time permits. Some of them are very old and must be located on our backup file systems, or the files have been lost and we need to locate and scan hard copies.

Please check our documentation page first to see if the documents you are looking forward have not already been uploaded: https://shop.bachmanntrains.com/index.php?main_page=documents&cPath=8

If you don't find what you are looking for, please reply in the thread below so we can add it to the "to-do" list and add them to the website.

We are currently working on adding the following:
-GE 45-Ton Center Cab Manual
-36-Ton Shay Parts and Wiring Diagrams
-Two-Truck Climax Wiring Diagram
-2-6-6-2

Thank you!

Do you model a railroad, era, or North American region not represented in our product line? Do you want more locomotives and rolling stock for a specific rail line? We want to hear from you! Our Customer Interest Survey launches today! Follow the link below to let us know what YOU want to see from Bachmann!
Railroads and Roadnames Survey: https://conta.cc/4dld7Es

Hi everyone,

Our 2024 New Releases brochure featuring new product announcements is online.

Click here to view the full brochure, including Thomas & Friends announcements

Greetings,

We are proud to introduce the 2023 Bachmann Mid Year Product Announcements!

Regular line video:

Thomas & Friends video:
*coming soon*

Brochure link:
https://resources.bachmanntrains.com/NMRA2023/NMRA2023.pdf

Enjoy!

A few months ago, we introduced the next generation of the E-Z Command DCC controller, the E-Z Command Plus. We hope those who have purchased it so far are enjoying operating your DCC locomotives with the system.

For those who have not yet purchased E-Z Command Plus or have just purchased the system, and want to know more about how it works, we have made this introduction video showing off the features and operations of the controller.


Enjoy!

All Williams/Williams by Bachmann locomotives are designed and manufactured for conventional transformer control. We do not make locomotives equipped with Lionel LEGACY, TrainMaster Command Control, or MTH Electric Trains Digital Command Systems. However, you can still control Williams locomotives using a command control remote in conventional mode only. Consult your command control system's instruction manual for specific directions.

Some suppliers offer aftermarket upgrade kits for DCS and TMMC that can be installed on Williams locomotives. However, Bachmann Trains does not offer installations and cannot provide support for these command control upgrade kits.

The short answer to this question is that any NMRA-compliant DCC decoder will be compatible with a Bachmann DCC Ready locomotive. Dependent on which item you wish to install DCC in, the decoder solution and installation process may differ.

• For some locomotives, a decoder/module designed specifically for that model may be offered directly by Bachmann, designed and manufactured by one of our decoder suppliers. (Example: 44960 Plug & Play ACS-64 DCC & Sound Module is a TCS WOWSound® module designed specifically for the DCC Ready ACS-64 locomotive, included in the 00772 Amtrak® City Sprinter set.)
• Most DCC Ready locomotives include an 8-pin plug for drop-in decoder installation. More recent and future DCC Ready locomotives will replace the 8-pin plug with a 21-pin (HO scale) or NEXT-18 (N scale) plug.
• Some older DCC Ready Locomotives may not have an 8-pin plug and require soldering the decoder. In this case, and in general, the simplest definition of "DCC Ready" is that the motor is electrically isolated from the chassis of the locomotive.
• If you wish to install a sound decoder, you will need a speaker in addition to a decoder. Some DCC Ready/"Silent" DCC locomotives come with a speaker pre-installed, while older models or models with limited/no space for a speaker may not.
  

DCC technicians and decoder manufacturers can offer advice and help select a specific decoder for your model. Some manufacturers such as TCS and Soundtraxx have decoder selection and installation guides on their websites.

While many of the features are the same, the E-Z Command Plus (item no. 44933) has a number of improvements over the original E-Z Command system (item no. 44932.)

-The E-Z Command Plus can control up to 29 decoder functions over the original E-Z Command's 9 functions.
-An LED speed indicator has been added, so that the operator can determine the relative speed of the addressed locomotive when turning the control knob. This way, the operator can easily tell whether the locomotive is running at low, medium, full speed, etc.
-The existing E-Z Command has an emergency stop button that stops the movement of all trains on all tracks. On the E-Z Command Plus, you can also make an emergency stop of the actively selected locomotive by pressing down the control knob.
-LED indicators have been added or updated to the address and function buttons to more easily identify which DCC addresses/functions are selected and in use.

The only other major difference with the Plus is that due to internal design changes, it is recommended to have a separate programming track for assigning addresses to locomotives. "Programming on the main" is still supported, but changing addresses will cause the address of all locomotives on the main track to be changed.

All previous E-Z Command accessories such as the Walk-Around Companion, 5 Amp Power Booster, and Automatic Reverse Loop Module are compatible with the E-Z Command Plus.

Please refer to the E-Z Command Plus instruction manual for further information: https://shop.bachmanntrains.com/documents/44933EZCommandPlus.pdf

Also see the Introduction to E-Z Command Plus video here: