I got this on ebay and the description said it was made by Bachmann, but there isn’t any markings that indicate who made it. I’m not familiar with any Bachmann 6 axle pancake motor locomotives either. The truck is actually quite nice, with all axles driven, 1 axle with traction tires. The motor and its housing are an improvement over with the pancake motors that most everyone is familiar with from the 1980’s. Hopefully someone knows more about this and the history of it…
Tyco also made a truck with a pancake motor like this one, so it’s hard to tell for sure whose this is.
I have a Lima 0-4-0T that has a similar motor
The side frames indicate a C30-7, but did Bachmann actually make this model with a pancake motor?
Could be from an E60CP. If so it wold be from an early release.
I think you nailed it, a 1979 Bachmann E60CP or and E60CF. I found the data sheet for the E60CF and it clearly shows this truck in use. What’s odd is that it shows the rear truck as possible the same thing without electrical gear in it. Very interesting… here is a link to the data sheet stored on ISSUU E60CF Instruction Sheet
Since it’s all spur gears, just leaving out the motor and any intermediate gears from an otherwise identical truck would make a perfectly good non-powered free rolling trailing truck, all ready for electrical pickup.
–Randy
Now I want one, so far hard to find though. Not a thing on ebay or amazon for E60CF. I am impressed with the performance of this truck. Here is a page that has the historical data on all Bachmann Locomotives going way back, but specifically the E60CF
You could build a ‘critter’ carbody around it and use it as a mini-switcher.
Somebody has done that quite recently in 1:1 scale. I didn’t keep the photo when I found it, and now I can’t recall where I saw it (or even what I was searching for when I stumbled across it.)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with 0-6-0T steam locos)
When I first tried it I thought right away a critter would be cool, but then an evil plan formed to take two of these and put them in a Trainmaster Dummy that I have and make a new monster called the H40-66.
Yup, that’s the guilty party. Looks like something a modeler would assemble from scrap box parts.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I saw that in another forum and downloaded that data sheet (the Critter). With the single traction tire axle this truck would be awesome at that. This part is still listed in the current Bachmann catalog, but it’s sold out. At $10 each it has too many possibilities to pass up. I sent a request to the parts department to find out if it would be coming back or discontinued, hopefully I’ll hear tomorrow. I went ahead and completely overhauled the motor even though it was brand new, the grease was caked and hard. It runs very well and crosses snap turnouts without missing a beat.
I don’t think Bachman made an E60 CF. That was American GK and it used an Athearn blue box diesel mechanism and was a far better drive
Check out this history I found on the E60CF…both Bachmann and GK made it and they are compared side by side with very interesting notes: