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 Posted - October 23 2006 : 9:24:00 PM
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Here's one for GoingInCirclez...you brought up those "semi-painted" Bachmann train set offerings and I got to digging tonight in catalogs...
From Bachmann's 1990 product catalog, I give you The Silver Express (No.00080)...
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WoW! A just barely decorated red and odd-gray substituting for stainless-steel/silver Santa Fe F-9A...incomplete with no yellow/black stripes surrounding the ill-formed warbonnet and why bother with that famous Santa Fe herald on the nose...next is an odd light-blue cast 50' Plug Door with single-color-white stamp Erie Lackawanna markings..."erie" and "lacka" are very fitting on this one huh?...the limited effort limps on to the triple-dome tank car modestly marked for Cyanamid...and finally the Burlington-ish streamline-cupola Caboose brings up the rear with equally plan markings.
Though there is nothing like it today...THANKFULLY...in the Bachmann line, here's a set of similar consist in the current 2006 offerings...
The Comet (No.00671)
That's some improvement!
Tony Cook
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 Posted - October 23 2006 : 9:26:43 PM
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I like how the Erie Box Car doesn't have a brake wheel. One can just see the bean-counter looking over the numbers..."We can skip those silly little brake wheels on each box car and save .000000002-cents per unit."
Actually, as so often happens in catalog pics...it is probably just by chance missing, but so fitting on this example. [V]
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 Posted - October 23 2006 : 11:04:31 PM
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Ha! The missing brakewheel is a great catch!
As much as I love to use the Tyco BN boxcar as a whipping boy, man oh man. Give me last-gasp Tyco over Bachmann any day! And thus I rest my case as to how the RTR guys shot their feet off. Were it not for easy-track, Bachmann would surely have deserved to go under (for the record, I AM glad they did not) [}:)]
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