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Bachmann’s HO Baldwin 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler steam locomotive offers fine detail at a moderate price
In the '50’s the NKP ran a morning passenger thru Celina,OH that was westbound between Cleveland and St. Louis. I’ve been looking for an HO 4-6-0 that has a similar look to it.
Another beautifull machine from Bachmann, but really, today is becoming quite difficult (or impossible) to find a model that doesn’t looks and performs top!
Great model. I have both versions, they both look and run nicely. Keep the nice steam loco’s coming!!
purchased the low boiler version with 52" drivers lettered for maryland and pennsylvania runs and looks nice
Never ran mine on DC. Installed DCC with sound and it runs great. Needed to adjust CVs for optimum performance. Detail is wonderful. Only issue is that it wants to stall on Walthers curved #6 switches (DCC compatible). I have not found the resolution yet, but that is because I have not spent time on it yet.
I worry about the drive belt. Mine has come off and it is tough to put it back on.
My Bachmann 4-6-0 sounds and runs GRATE…Looks Cool, Nice job Bachmann, im so pleased i just orderd your Decapod.
I purchased the Maryland and Pennsylvania version because it is a very good representation of the prototype which I used to see operating through Baltimore in the early 1950’s. Unfortunately it has an operating problem I have not been able to solve. The wires between the loco and tender hang so low that they get caught on switches and crossings. Any suggestions?
Tends to stall thru’ turnouts, due, I think to the rigid short wheelbase, & wheels lifting off the track minutely due to imperfections in track laying & “bowing” of some brands of turnouts. Existing wheel pickups also play a part. Tender pickups should compensate, but tender is very light weight.
Solution: try extra weight in tender, add extra phosphor-bronze pickups to tender or loco
I had the same problem Bill from Maryland mentioned. Solved it by tying a 4" wire tie around the 4-wire cable, clipping the tail close to the ratchet box, then gluing the tie to the underside of the tender frame with CA, pulling the wires up and away from the way they hang down, interfering with track.
Painted the assembly grimy black and its barely noticeable, major improvement to operation
Where can I get it for $175? On Bachmann’s site, it’s $360, with DCC and sound, and the next best is $190 for sale on Caboose Hobbies site.
Great looking model and runs great when it stays on the track
The cables tend to lift the tender
On my DC version I eliminated the cable had connected the engine pickup power rgight to the motor and light
However on my DCC version that can’t be done and it is a real pain trying to keep it on the track
Bachmann ought to eliminate the power pickup in the engine and just have a single cable from the tender to the motor and tie the light into it inside the engine
Would it be possible to convert it to a wood burner? Maybe I could use the shay diamond stack, and use the bunker for the bachmann HO 4-4-0. What do you think Andy Sperandeo
The 63" driver version is pretty close to MP, T&P, and L&A prototypes … very good for model railroaders in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas who don’t have many regional-specific models available.
The 52" driver is supposedly a Ma and Pa engine, and they did have one, but it is really a stock model Baldwin 4-6-0, not unlike the way the GP-7’s were stock offerings. Very similar engines ran on the Y&MV and the Mississippi Central and that model is very usable for those modeling these southern roads.