looks like hell has frozen over , Bowser has released a ready to run loco
see the sept issue of RMC for the announcement of the RTR 0-4-0 dockside
same issue has hminky’s fine article on making a pond out of a party balloon . congtraz harold !
I was at the bookstore just yesterday and noticed both the Bowser add and Harold’s article. (The tall grass and the 4-4-0 was the give away.)
Tom
Hey, waddya know,…you’re right!
Congrats Harold!
The Bowser RTR Docksiders have been around for awhile - the RTR version is pretty bare-bones, but they make nice superdetailing and valve-gear kits. A fun little project engine - I’ve got one on the workbench now.
They were talking about this at the National Train Show in Philly - other Bowser locos will eventually be released in RTR form as well.
–Randy
Randy,
Any other ones worth mentioning or giving a heads up on?
Tom
Sorry to burst your bubbles, but most Bowser locomotives (at least the former Penn Line models) were available as both RTR and kits throughout the '90s. I don’t think the RTR sold particularly well - priced higher and not as detailed (but much more powerful) as the Spectrum competition. My father bought an E-6 Atlantic, the Mountain, and a K-4 Pacific RTR. Not sure whether the Docksider was RTR or kit. He would typically add the super detail kit, although that could be ordered as part of the RTR. Others (another K-4 and some of the Stewart line) he bought as kits. Bowser also advertised custom die casting services.
Bowser did reduce their prices significantly a year or two ago, and seems (from what I have seen on this forum) to have had some resurgence in popularity.
yours in training
Fred W