UK-outline plastic locos?

[tac foley]

Tac, they are not 'history'. You can still buy the 2nd version 2-6-0 and Bachmann is still making them, with the pnp socket in the tender. Similarly the 'industrial' 2-6-0, the various 0-4-0T and even the Lyn was reworked. While street price for the 2-6-0 is $600, it's still a bargain compared with an Accucraft.

LGB and Piko are producing those nice Moguls, etc., and the Forney.

Over here, we currently have a glut of hardly-used collections being sold. I speculate it's the baby-boomers who bought tons of trains 20 years ago and forgot to build a railway. Aristo 2-8-0s pop up regularly, hardly used, and I've heard it said that Bachmann isn't producing more of the old Aristo models as there are too many on the market.

Bachmann 1/20.3 'Spectrum' models - the brain-children of the late Mr Riley -

The Connie - Bachmann's version of a preserved Mexican sugar plantation 2-8-0 - history.

The two-truck Shay - history.

The three-truck Shay - history.

The Climax - history.

The Heisler - history.

The American 4-4-0 - history.

The old-style Mogul - history.

The K27 - history.

The 'Lyn' HAS been reworked, granted, but has a lot more popularity here in UK because of its association with the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, where a full-size replica was built by Alan Keefe, coming into service a couple of years back.

I dimly recall a Forney of some kind, but maybe that was wishful thinking - whatever, I've never seen one.

We should be grateful to Bachmann for their daring to bring such products to the market in the fust place - for sure it will never happen again.

 

[Fred2179G]

A slop of paint, remove the fizogs accept wrong track gauge and you are good to go.

Like my "Stirling Single" with the 6-wheel 'teak' coaches and a corridor 8-wheel LMS coach, with ducket.

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