We finally get a plastic EM1, just announced at the National Train Show in Sacramento according to the MR release! Guess who has it???
Did you Guess correctly??
Baltimore & Ohio class EM-1 2-8-8-4 steam locomotive. Baltimore & Ohio (four road numbers) and painted black but unlettered with early or late sand domes. Digital Command Control motor decoder, die-cast metal trucks, and ball-and-socket driveshaft. $399. Spectrum line. Bachmann
Yes I did. And I really loved that engne until I saw the MRR news post that…
BACHMANN’S DOING A SCHNABEL!!!
It’s going to really be fun to weather that baby!
Weather it? That’s would be the least of my problems as this monster would probably negotiate 3 feet of my layout and that might be generous. I’d love to see it run though…[swg]
Wayne
Step aside, Big Boy, the REAL articulateds are a-comin!
Tom [:D]
I might get one just for the Buckeye trucks on the tender! Love those.
That is what I said in another post anouncing it’s peding arrival.
I have about 3 feet of a straight-a-way it can run on, but I doubt it would negotiate my curves very well.
It would have to be a $300 ad change shelf-paper-holder-downer.
At least for now.
Was ther any mention of Tsunami sound for this beast?
Truck.
Wrong scale dagnabit! That expression is not an obscenity: it comes courteous of one George “Gabby” Hayes!
One of these days we may have one of these and an Allegheny in **N-**oble-Scale.
A sound version will likely come later if previous Bachmann policy is any indicator. And again, if it is like other recent Bachmann locos, the tenders will all be “sound ready”. So upgrading to your own sound decoder will be easy - just like removing the decoders is easy for us quiet DC operators - Bachmann
Bachmann is selling a Tsunami decoder as a separate item rather than having multiple SKUs for sound/no sound. Not a bad idea if you ask me.
As for the schnabel car, they’ve offered one in the chinese line for a few years now. This one is americanized with different trucks and a few other changes.
Also, they’re finally doing an ON30 heisler.
I agree, simply making the loco completely “sound ready” and selling the sound decoder as an upgrade is a great idea - especially for those of us not interested in sound.
Sheldon
Sorry, I do not know the details, but they do seem to offer that DCC sound that in most of their new products as an option or after market.
CZ
As to the issue of sound, I think already covered in this and/or the other threads on this topic, the loco will be sound ready and a plug and play sound decoder will be offered later.
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/2011_NMRA.pdf
Sheldon
So how long before we get a die cast metal or plastic M3 or M4???
CZ
Okay, saw it at the Show today in Sacramento. I have just one word:
WOW!!!
It’s a real beauty–long and lean and really powerful looking. Quite handsome. Delivery is October of this year (Bachmann’s also introducing a handsome Alco 2-6-0, though it was only an undec pre-production model).
And y’know–since Baldwin built both the M-3/4 and EM-1 with the same driver size and chassis length–well, I wonder how much it would cost to change the dies and put a Missabe top on the B&O bottom, LOL? Hey, that’s what Akane did back in the 'sixties. Add a Centipede tender–oh be still, my Beating Heart. [:P]
Bachmann’s got a real winner with this one. Frankly, I can see a lot of Big Boy owners rushing in to see if they can make a trade, LOL! This Yellowstone is BEAUTIFUL!
Tom [:D]
I’ve been waiting for these engines a long time. My plan is to get all thirty that the B&O used and since it’s Bachmann that makes it easier since they are cheaper and they are not limited runs. I would have preferred it if BLI had made a hybrid model instead but this is excellent as well! Great news indeed. Finally something to pull all those B&O hoppers.
Magnus
Bachmann did just that with their verious versions of the 2-6-6-2 - they may already have plans…
Sheldon
Hey Tom, since you know these things, how clsoe is that chassis to the SP AC9?