Bachmann's new On30 4-4-0

[tom mann]

http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/gallery/album40/aal

 

[sparky]

Keeeeeewl!!!!! ;D

[3rdrail]

Something about the proportions of the cab just don't look right to me.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I just don't know, those tiny little drivers just make it look goofy to me.

[SquirrelHollow]

I just don't know, those tiny little drivers just make it look goofy to me.

I like it.  I captures the essence of narrow guage pretty well.

[sparky]

Silence, pickers of nit!  It looks cool, and since a lot of On30 stuff is more freelance than prototype, I think it's proportions look acceptable.  Sign me up.  After waiting a year to get a good discount, that is...

[Chris333]

All the complaining I did about it having no prototype and now I found my Mt. Gretna photos, if you take the sand dome away and add fenders it is the same locomotive with a wider gauge. Odd the prototype had no sand domes since they had a 4+% grade.

[Chris333]

Arrrrrrggg all my typing disappeared  >

Anyways, Mt Gretna had the only 2' gauge 4-4-0's in the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gretna_Narrow_Gauge_Railway


http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/gallery/albums/album40/aag.sized.jpg

Up on the turntable, that is the builder photo. The railroad bought a Forney 0-4-4 and it de-railed on it's first run so they put in a rush order at Baldwin for a 4-4-0. It was built in 10 days and they shipped it out so fast they sent a rep to take the photo.

A 3/8" model
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/gallery/albums/album41/aaj.sized.jpg
Yes they really were that color. Although I would have picked a darker green and I'm not so sure about that Russian iron color.

I'm in love 

[sparky]

I'm in love 

Take note, naysayers! Approval from a true Steamhead!

[3rdrail]

The "skirt" around the lead driver is the sandbox. PRR used this instead of sand domes during the same period. An idea borrowed from our British cousins.

[Chris333]

OK... now I see the sanding line in the drawing. Where is the magnifying glass smiley?

[Catt]

Well since my freelanced Grande Valley is set in modern times I plan on getting the steel cab version.With that metal boiler it should have some good heft to it.