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  1. Sure looks like Bachmann is planning to make the Aristo-Craft 53' Evans boxcars for 2022! This is a page from the "New" NMRA 2021 catalog..https://resources.bachmanntrains.com/nmra-2021/html5/index.html
  2. Hello folks. I'm relatively new to the hobby and I have a question. I have a Bachmann Spectrum 2-6-0 Mogul that appears (to me) to be low on speed and power. The locomotive is from Bachmann's newer run and I have owned it for just over a year. I don't have much run time on it, maybe 10 minutes. The facts. I have a temporary setup in my house with about 50 feet of LGB track. The curves are 8ft diameter. I'm running track power with an MRC Train Power 6200. The Mogul runs slow as compared to my other locomotives on the same set up. I hooked a string of 4 USA Overton Passenger Cars to it and the locomotive just crawls, almost stalling out when it gets into the turns. I realize the Overtons have a ton of drag. They are not easy cars to pull and I could make they better with a little more grease. However, for reference, my "Annie" pulling the exact same cars on the exact same set up runs just fine. In fact, the Annie pulling the cars runs down the Mogul without a train when I put them both on for one of the runs. I have also run recently a USA GP9 pulling a string of mixed freight (maybe 10 cars) with no problems on this set up. I have applied lube to all of the areas the Bachmann directions have indicated. While I can work to make the Overtons more locomotive friendly, I really want to know if there is something wrong with this Mogul or is there something else I should do? Any tips or ideas? Much Appreciated -Kris
  3. Just completed this install of MTH Protosound 3 in a Bachmann G scale Thomas the Tank engine. Added timed Smoke, speaker, front and reverse lights.
  4. I have a couple of 1-20 Bachmann Shays and they come with a large bag of accessories. Most of them are obvious tools and I've pretty well figured out where (more or less) to put them on the engines. There are a few items that I have no clue to what they are: On the far left, the spring looking thing and the two longer Black wedge looking plastic pieces. They almost look like chocks. Any ideas on what these are? I have looked all over the internet for answers... Thanks for your time. Charles
  5. One thing I did early on was to make one car per train consist a track cleaner. Even though I was using Stainless Steel rail I felt it was a good idea to have at least some sort of cleaning action to keep any sort of buildup off the top of the rail to keep engine and rolling stock wheels as clean as possible. My goals were to use an existing car and to keep the visual impact to a minimum. I started with one Bachmann coal hopper and made plans to fabricate a bridge on one truck to attach the track cleaner pads: I chose to use a corrugated strip of metal to attach the cleaner pads to: I ground out areas so the flanges would not touch the metal mount and wrapped it with electrical tape. I then used 3M outdoor adhesive along with cut to size finishing pads to the truck and hotglued lead weights in the car to weigh it down: End result is a very effective track cleaning car for almost no cost. I periodically have to replace the pads and a layer of adhesive tape but that's it. The rails stay nice and polished but don't experience any appreciable abrasion or wear. More photos on this writeup: http://www.rayman444...per_cleaner.htm Raymond
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