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Bachmann C-19 Consolidation
An informative review , many thanks. Our Australian state of Queensland had C-19’s but these were different from the Baldwins of the same designation. ( a pity as the Bachmann loco looks great) The locally built C 19’s were 4-8-0’s .C for 8 coupled drivers & 19 for the cylinder diameter in inches. They were the largest loco’s run by QR on its 3’6"gauge & had a tractive effort of 23,525 lbft.
I was an Engineer on two C-19’s at Knott’s Berry Farm. I recall giving a cab ride to a couple of gentleman from Bachman and my interest in seeing a C-19 made as well as other G Scale friends, you can never say Bachman never listens to customer request or ideas. The detail is beautiful on this running replica, I intend to have two and re-number them #340 DR&GW #340 and #41 RGS. I can’t begin to tell you what a Thrill to see this made in this Scale. Would hope Bachman might make enclosed Jackson & Sharp passenger car’s, Durango, Chama, SIlverton etc. 5 Star’s for Bachman!
I am a french railfan and I like American narrow gauge railroads.
The new C19 is wonderful! For more realism I added a new engineer and fireman (Sherman and Harry from Scale Humans.com).
Great thanks to Bachmann…
Alain
I am a french railfan and I like American narrow gauge railroads.
The new C19 is wonderful! For more realism I added a new engineer and fireman (Sherman and Harry from Scale Humans.com).
Great thanks to Bachmann…
Alain
John, Baldwin also exported some C-19s down under. They look very similar, except for the windows on the sides of the cab, (and all the modern accoutrements like generator, headlight, dual air pumps, etc.).
http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/eastbroadtop/EBT7/EBT708.jpg
This is one that ran on the East Broad Top, but the cab is identical to the ones Baldwin built for export to Australia and Central America.
I’ll add that it’s very short work to remove the center pillar and armrest in the stock Bachmann cab, and add some new styrene pillars to change to this new arrangement.
Later,
K
John, Baldwin also exported some C-19s down under. They look very similar, except for the windows on the sides of the cab, (and all the modern accoutrements like generator, headlight, dual air pumps, etc.).
http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/eastbroadtop/EBT7/EBT708.jpg
This is one that ran on the East Broad Top, but the cab is identical to the ones Baldwin built for export to Australia and Central America.
I’ll add that it’s very short work to remove the center pillar and armrest in the stock Bachmann cab, and add some new styrene pillars to change to this new arrangement.
Later,
K
I have one of these locos and it is great but I have noticed some play in the drive train where you can rock the loco back and forth about 5% - 10% revolution. This would not be too noticable if it weren’t for the fact that I am using a QSI Quantum DCC board and it has some sophisticated control of motor and load parameters. As It gauges BEMF from the revolution of the motor, the ‘play’ in the drive train is causing a bit of jerking at very slow speed. If I push the loco to just take up the slack before power is applied and then apply the low power the slow speed take up is very good. This means that the slack is the culprit.
I wonder if mine is the exception or that other examples have this ‘play’ in the drive train?
I have one of these locos and it is great but I have noticed some play in the drive train where you can rock the loco back and forth about 5% - 10% revolution. This would not be too noticable if it weren’t for the fact that I am using a QSI Quantum DCC board and it has some sophisticated control of motor and load parameters. As It gauges BEMF from the revolution of the motor, the ‘play’ in the drive train is causing a bit of jerking at very slow speed. If I push the loco to just take up the slack before power is applied and then apply the low power the slow speed take up is very good. This means that the slack is the culprit.
I wonder if mine is the exception or that other examples have this ‘play’ in the drive train?
Michael, I know you and I corresponded about this, so this is redundant for your purposes, but for others reading these comments, here’s my take:
The “slack” you describe appears in mine as well, so it’s likely typical to the locomotive. I have not run mine with a QSI decoder, so I can’t speak to how its Regulated Throttle Control (RTC) works relative to the slack. I’d suggest turning off RTC, and just going with Standard Throttle Control (STC). You don’t lose any of the load-sensing sounds such as chuff volume increase or decrease, and given that STC on the QSI-equipped locos I have is very similar to the performance of the Aristo Revolution control which I installed in the C-19 (and other locos), I think it would be more than sufficient for very smooth operation.
Later,
K
Michael, I know you and I corresponded about this, so this is redundant for your purposes, but for others reading these comments, here’s my take:
The “slack” you describe appears in mine as well, so it’s likely typical to the locomotive. I have not run mine with a QSI decoder, so I can’t speak to how its Regulated Throttle Control (RTC) works relative to the slack. I’d suggest turning off RTC, and just going with Standard Throttle Control (STC). You don’t lose any of the load-sensing sounds such as chuff volume increase or decrease, and given that STC on the QSI-equipped locos I have is very similar to the performance of the Aristo Revolution control which I installed in the C-19 (and other locos), I think it would be more than sufficient for very smooth operation.
Later,
K