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Bachmann HO "The Texas Chugger"
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Don Gibson</i> <br /><br />IT Is a Bachmann ATSF 4-8-4 shell, on a 2-10-4 wheelbase, pulling a NYC tender, painted for Chesapeak & Ohio. <br /> <br />The Bachmann chassis was prone to wheels locking up on it's axles. Sound was produced rubbing a 'sandpaper ' stick inserted in the tender. <br /> <br />As long as it will run, Enjoy. When it stops, build a park aound it. <br /> <br /> <br />[/quote] <br /> <br /><font size="3"><font color="red">Only Bachmann could sell the 5011 series with a NYC centepede tender and believe it was a real Texas Chugger using a wood device in the tender. </font id="red"></font id="size3"> <br /> <br /> <br />I did purchase the 4-8-4 3776 class version from Bachmann and used them for park and roundhouse duty, but only after installing brake shoes and roller bearing side rods. . <br /> <br />I hope the new version of the 5011 Texas uses the correct tender that they already had in their inventory. <br /> <br />How about this, since the PRR leased a few of the 5011 class back in the summer of 1956, Bachmann could use their poetic license rule and offer the new Texas type as a J1b. Now before you say anything, I lived near the PRR in steam days and know they only classified their Texas type as the J1 and J1a. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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