My pictures from the "Streamliners at Spencer" event:
http://robcrawford.smugmug.com/Galleries/Streamliners-at-Spencer/
Great photos!
Here's another one of mine.
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My pictures from the "Streamliners at Spencer" event:
http://robcrawford.smugmug.com/Galleries/Streamliners-at-Spencer/
Great photos!
Here's another one of mine.
This has nothing to do with Chinese manufacturing.
Bachmann always made generic trains. Their trains were, and probably still are, sold in train sets that are meant for children. They have a generic 2-6-0 steam locomotives with the wrong tender, and painted for roads that never had them. They have diesels with generic designs, that kind of look like but not really are the same as the ones you've seen. This isn't just in HO either; it was also did this in N-scale. Combine the generic looking trains with poor running and they are pretty crappy models no matter how much you try to fix 'em up they'll still be crappy models, and to bring them up to standards it'll cost more than what you've paid for the model in the first place.
They did venture into some prototype modeling, and at one point created the UAC Turbo in both the PennCentral and CN liveries in N-scale as well as the "new" Metroliner train set. I had the PennCentral UAC Turbo set, which was blue with a red stripe. This wasn a bad looking trains set, but it ran poorly due to being too light and would either stall or jump the tracks no matter how much weight I tried adding to it. The coaches were Talgo-style, just like the prototype, but the connectors were these big plastic hooks that were way to out-of-scale and put the coaches too far a part. These couplers also snapped off easily and couldn't be repaired, unlike most models which have simple hook-type couplers that can be replaced.
I was quite young when I got this set for a birthday, maybe 12 or so, and even then my impression of Bachmann trains was they are garbage. I was quite disappointed with my birthday gift which I wanted very badly after seeing the advertisement for it in a Model Railroader magazine.
http://rodneystrains.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/bachmann-n-scale-uac-turbo-train/
John
Great photos!
Here's another one of mine.
Last post before I leave:
IS THAT AN ALCO IN THE BACKGROUND?
Those look like the Jointed Rail units you won't sign up to download for free.:udrool::udrool:
WHERE DID YOU FIND THOSE?!!!!
THOSE ARE AWSOME!!!!
I hope those are freeware. (and that I can find an HO scale model of the same thing.)