Nice! thats a $142 set! Bachmann has come along way since the pancake motors of the 70's. I have a few of the Bachmann Plus locos, and they run excellent, heavy, and very quiet. The Hawthorn Village series of various sets, from sports teams to movie stars, etc., uses the Bachmann Plus.
Mike.
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Well, today we went to the train show in Sprifield, MO. For over 60+ years of going to shows I have never won the door prize but today my 5 year old Grandson won at his 3rd show! What luck! So they handed him a nice Bachmann Canyon Chief tran set. Needless to say the 2 hour drive home was excruciatingly long for him.
By the time we got the car unloaded and got in the house he had opened it and had assembled the track, hooked up the wires and had the train running. Pretty impressive for a kid that had never seen a train set before. Unfortunately he earned a punishment for plugging the cord into the wall as it's not allowed at 5.
The train operates extremely well, has KD clone couplers and the track with roadbed is very nice. I was surprised by the quality of everything it came with as I remember Bachmann toy trains from years ago.
So maybe we need to rethink our poor opinion of what Bachmann puts out in the non-Spectrum world?
Just my observation.
Roger Huber
Deer Creek Locomotive Works