I’m looking to get some cheap filler cars that my 6 year old son can run around the layout while I build some kits. I’ve seen Bachmann silver series cars from between 8-10 dollars each on the internet. It seems 3-4 of these would be perfect for him. I was thinking that they’d also be perfect to practice weathing techniques on.
My only real parameters are R-T-R, metal wheels, and knuckle couplers. I would prefer the couplers to be body mounted (a couple of pictures looked to me like the couplers were truck mounted.
I would appreciate your feedback and experience with the Bachmann lines.
I have a few of the Bachmann Silver Series cars. All of mine have body mounted knuckle couplers and metal wheels. Although some of them are light, they run well and the detail though sparse is rugged for small hands.
I like them, not a bad buy for the money.
I have a bunch of SS hoppers and some passenger cars, I think they are smashing!! Rarely derail are about the right weight, I think the detail is ok.
Good price, got mine from discounttrains online.
no there not there real good the two i have are the NYC centerflow and B&O 40’ boxcar they are pretty detailed and i like them the old bachmann i could see for tra***hough.
Yep, go for it - I have one of the mechanical reefers (bought to see what they were like) and it’s not bad for £5. Metal wheels (which are both concentric and in gauge - I’ve seen more expensive stock that wobbles due to these not being right), body mounted couplers (you may need to alter the mounting boxes if fitting Kadees - I had to pop the box off and file it slightly so that it sat closer to the frame and put the coupler at the right height), and the paintwork isn’t bad either. I know this may sound like a lot of work, but it’ll only take a few minutes (roughly half the time taken to assemble a BB kit), and you don’t have to buy metal wheels for the Bachmann one either!