I think Bachmann hit one over the center field fence on this one!! http://www.micromark.com/BACHMANN-On30-2-6-6-2-PAINTED-BLACK-UNLETTERED-WOOD-CAB-WITH-SOUND,9430.html
Yes it is a beauty makes me wish i was into narrow gauge
Thanks for making it clickable! I’m using Google Chrome and this forum software doesn’t play nice with chrome. That’s an On30 kitbashers dream! And 18" radius to boot!
Kinda funny looking with that oversize cab and extended pilot deck…[swg]
Still,a nice looking locomotive.
But that’s exactly what makes it cool ! [swg]
Yeah, makes it look like an HO model with an O scale cab on it.
Their recent On30 4-6-0 is probably the best looking engine they’ve done in any scale.
Did such a machine ever actually exist in 30-inch gauge in this country? It looks to me very much like an loco that did run in Yugoslavia many years ago, but in the USA?.
CNJ831
I don’t know if the cab’s too big or the boiler’s too small, but this model just looks wrong to me. Nicely done, though. Here’s a neat site on small articulateds:
http://loggingmallets.railfan.net/
I have the impression that the only narrow gage American articulateds were the Uintah pair, and they don’t look like the Bachmann model. And they’re 36" gage, too.
Ed
Since most On30 locomotives had either 24 inch or 36 inch gauge prototypes, almost anything manufactured in On30 is freelance to start with.
Looks rather like an attempt to reproduce a Sumpter Valley rebuild of the 36 inch gauge Uintah 2-6-6-2T, aka the Mantua Logger. Yes, the boiler IS skinny. So was the prototype’s
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
If the Bachmann engine is an attempt to reproduce the Sumpter Valley locos, they managed to miss almost every similarity except the wheel arrangement (I’ll concede they got the counterweight style and use of outside valve gear correct).
Ed
Then, it’s basically nothing but a fantasy loco if not even to the correct track gauge. And guys complain about some manufacturers playing free and loose with reality in HO!
Anyway, if you folks would like to see what I think is probably the actual European prototype for this loco, look half way down the page on this site:
http://www.bigindoortrains.com/primer/narrow_gauge_railroads/30in_rwys/30in_power.htm
Sure as heck ain’t no American loco.
CNJ831
For your edification and amusement:
Look familiar?
It’s the 10th 2-6-6-2 entry on this (most interesting) page:
http://narrowmind.railfan.net/
And it’s a 30" gage, too. Not too shabby, Bachmann. Not too American, either, but hey…
Also eye-opening is that there actually were 30" gage prototypes–it’s just that they were in Metric-land, not Inch-land. How strange. How enterprising, Baldwin, to attempt to subvert the metric system with American equipment.
Ed
Bachmann’s On30 line is neat, I just don’t need to start yet another scale. I bet the drive train for this locomotive is the same one as their HO scale USRA 2-6-6-2.
John
The fact that the prototype is a Baldwin doesn’t surprise me at all. Baldwin didn’t just build locomotives for the American market–their locomotives were pretty ‘international’, from South America to Indonesia to Europe. Even–GASP!! England.
Neat little loco. Actually, it kinda/sorta reminds me of some of the more esoteric ‘experiments’ that logging and mining companies out here in the West used to perform on unsuspecting stock locomotives from Baldwin, Porter and–yes–, even ALCO, when the need arose. Sometimes when they got through with the adjustments, it was hard to tell WHAT company had built the locos–if indeed they were built by recognized locomotive companies at all, LOL!
So–we’ve found out that the prototype actually existed and is not a ‘fantasy’ locomotive. But if I were modeling an On30 logging railroad out here in the west, I’d not think twice about putting it on my roster. Believe me, it would look right at home with some of the prototype ‘kit-bashes’ that used to run around out here in the Sierra Woods, LOL!
Tom [:P]
In all honesty, a supposed “couldda-been” American locomotive is in no way a citable U.S. prototype. If it never operated on any railroad here then it’s not an American locomotive, no matter what company may have built it and for whom elsewhere.
From the preceding posts IDing the model’s prototype as european it would seem that this new Bachmann model, if sold over here, really falls into the same category as those “Americanized” european locomotives offered to U.S. hobbyists back in the 1960’s by the likes of Fleischmann. Based on that, I’d have to say that it fits more appropriately in the category of “fantasy” than anywhere else when it comes to those of us on this side of the pond. Anyone out there perhaps more appropriately modeling the Yugoslavian/Serbian Rwy? [;)]
CNJ831
Has possibilties of an S scale standard guage conversion.
Dave
I really want more locomotives like that.