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 Posted - February 18 2018 : 4:31:00 PM
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I was working on this but I accidentally closed the tab (as Chrome has the closing "X" button took up half the tab!) and I was going to go over what was new, but now I'm just sharing the link. 
http://resources.bachmanntrains.com/bachmann2018/html5/index.html?page=1
UPDATE: I'm going to try again at saying what's new. Bachmann has brought out some new HO-scale train sets, such as a Ringling Bros. passenger train and the "North Pole Express" (basically their version of the Polar Express), along with bringing back the "Challenger" starter set (complete with Union Pacific F9 diesel.) The long-awaited ACS-64 HO-scale electric locomotive comes out in a few months, equipped with a super-deluxe DCC sound package (not just the usual motor, horn and bell, but also coupler clanks, train crew chatter, etc.) available in Amtrak and SEPTA roadnames. Bachmann is even bringing the Amfleet cars back into production, but for now they're only in the modern Phase IVB scheme, as that's what the ACS-64 locomotives typically pull. The Amfleet cars are going to sell at $89.99 each. Ouch! (I'm betting the tooling will be identical to the Amfleet cars Bachmann made until several years back, just with the current paint scheme.) Bachmann is also now making a sound-equipped version of their DCC SP Daylight 4-8-4 steam locomotive (a staple of Bachmann's train line since 1979!), along with new 85' smooth-sided 40s-style streamline coaches and observation cars fo it to pull, or any other 40s/50s-style streamliners from the B&O, PRR, Union Pacific, etc. Bachmann also now makes a F.R.E.D. unit (the flashing light seen on the last car of a freight train) that's available either as part of a 50' boxcar, or as a separate track-powered replacement truck that can be installed on an existing piece of rolling stock. They also now have a couple of E-Z Track siding sets, consisting of a right-hand turnout that goes to a 40'" siding (in steel-alloy track, phooey) and including a freight car and a Plasticville railroad building kit. I've always found train set expansion packs like those very interesting; Life-Like used to make a few of them.
Many Bachmann classics are still available like the DeWitt Clinton and Overland Limited train sets, their 2-6-2 and 0-6-0 and old-time steam engines, GP40 and GP50 and SD40-2 and F7 and DD40AX diesels, their various passenger and freight cars (some of the freight cars still have older photos from the mid-90s depicting them with X2F couplers!), the blinking bridge and dual crossing gates, steam whistle warehouse and blinking oil tank, and the Plasticville building kits and scenic accessories.
I noticed though that they have discontinued the Chuggington line (probably since the show ended a while back), and they are apparently discontinuing the E60CP Amtrak electric locomotive (another long-runner in Bachmann's train line since the late 70s) probably because Amtrak retired the real thing 15 years ago (not unlike when Bachmann discontinued the HHP-8 electric locomotive a couple years back due to Amtrak retiring their real ones in favor of the ACS-64.)
On the N-scale side, there isn't much new stuff though, except for a new Christmas train set.
So yeah, there are a couple things in the catalog I'll probably end up buying, as expected (probably one of those 40' Santa Fe map-side boxcars!)
Edited by - wiley209 on February 18 2018 5:10:59 PM
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Posted - February 19 2018 : 11:57:54 AM
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wow!
no Chuggington in that catalog 
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