BLI 2-8-0 Consolidations

[High Hood]

Pennsylvania H10? ❌

Interstate H10? ✅

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[nstars]

I imagine these will be pretty good runners and pullers, and there is the Stealth option if you want to avoid BLI decoders.

I only hope they redesign the speaker casting. The speaker in the tenders behind the USRA pacifics and mikado’s is too large which means that Next18 sound decoders don’t fit. I think I know why this happened (they probably didn’t want to redesign the tender when they introduced the stealth versions) but it’s not compliant to the Next18 standard. The PRR and Reading T1’s have proven that they can do the Next18 correctly so hopefully they do it with this engine also. I really like those stealth engines.

Marc

[Maletrain]

I am glad to see the high headlight on this model.  We already have the Bachmann connie with the headlight centered on the smoke box.  I model B&O, and B&O typically moved their headlights to the top of the smoke box, at least until the very end of steam, when they moved some back to the center, such as their P7-e pacifics.

I am hoping this model is at least roughly the size of their large E-27 connies, which were pretty big, so they lasted into my modeling era.

[Mark5]

Since the owners of BLI are avowed SPFs, I think it highly likely that we'll see the H10 in N scale (eventually).

This has been hinted at multiple times. https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=51215.60

[bbunge]

I would hope they use this mech for a run or two of PRR H10s, additional runs of other roads, but also offer a 0-8-0 of which their appears to be a lot of interest in.  Quite a few of the 0-8-0 switchers were actually older Connies with the pony truck removed, so it would make sense this mech might fit that bill.

Given almost every road had larger Connies and the need for N-scale switchers, I didn't understand why Bachmann didn't try to fill in these niches even if the driver size might not be exactly correct. 

Hopefully BLI sees this missing hole and fills.  While I'd love to see a quality smooth running -0-6-0 in N, BLI in the past has commented they are mostly interested in producing steam models that can use the smoke unit they have developed, so this might be as small as they are willing to go.  Love or hate BLI, they seem to be producing more N scale steam than anyone else. 

[robert3985]

...They could have made a Harriman 2-8-0 and covered UP, SP, IC, and I think Erie with a pretty accurate loco. Also I think the Gould lines may have had a fairly standard

I agree completely.  But, I already have several Oriental and Key brass UP 2-8-0's.  Some SP's with whaleback tenders would have interested me highly, and...pre-installed DCC/sound would have been a huge plus, especially in tiny Vandy tenders.  Oh well.

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

[Tad_T]

The picture that I posted of AD&N 125 above is from 1942 in Monticello, Arkansas.

She was built by Brooks Locomotive Works, Build # 3986 in 1901, at Dunkirk, NY as

St. Louis, Iron Mountain, & Southern 1864.
Later Missouri Pacific 514.
Purchased by Ashley, Drew & Northern, 1937. 
Scrapped by Baumgardner Wreckers, El Dorado, Arkansas, 1950.

Brooks Locomotive Works merged later that year, 1901, with the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).

In looking at the closeups on the BLI website and comparing them with other photos that I have of 125, while not identical, there are a great many similarities.

[peteski]

The drivers look like @peteski 's favorite non-see through spoked design.

 

[packers#1]

Pennsylvania H10? ❌

Interstate H10? ✅

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This was my thought as well…hmmm maybe I should do the Interstate layout that’s in my head in N scale instead of HO.

[eja]

I can envision an undecorated one in my future. But given the number of design flaws and implementation screw-ups that have been discussed on TRW about other BLI products, no way I will pre-order.

I'll wait until we can see them in the wild and they have been thoroughly dissected, reviewed and analyzed on the TRW.  Once they start to show up in the Outlet Store, I may let a moth or two out of my wallet.

[mike_lawyer]

Great news - BLI said it will release a PRR H10 shortly after the release of the consolidations in the latest Broadway Flyer.

[Iain]

Fortunately the Bachman is a better match for an NS E Class.

[reinhardtjh]

Great news - BLI said it will release a PRR H10 shortly after the release of the consolidations in the latest Broadway Flyer.

Now I have to decide if the PRR H-class 62" drivers are close enough to the C&O G-class 56"...  What's 6 N-Scale inches, right?  Although we can assume the drivers will be undersized due to larger then prototype flanges.  Driver wheelbase is almost the same at 15'.

[mkearns]

Now I have to decide if the PRR H-class 62" drivers are close enough to the C&O G-class 56"...  What's 6 N-Scale inches, right?  Although we can assume the drivers will be undersized due to larger then prototype flanges.  Driver wheelbase is almost the same at 15'.

What’s your plan to move the headlight for the C&O G class 2-8-0? I agree that the dome arrangement is better than the Bachmann for most of the 2-8-0 fleet, but not the headlight.

[reinhardtjh]

What’s your plan to move the headlight for the C&O G class 2-8-0? I agree that the dome arrangement is better than the Bachmann for most of the 2-8-0 fleet, but not the headlight.

Next will be to start comparing the boiler arrangement and size.  Plan A is to create a new shell and 3D print it.  I might have to wait and see the Spookshow review to see what it looks like under the shell.  Assuming Mark does a full review.