QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal Here's what I have to say about Bachman: Spectrum: GREAT! Plus: so-so Regular: Bad EZ Mate couplers: The worst thing ever made
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QUOTE: here latley I hvae heard alot of people saying that Bachmann trains are terrible and low quality. THAT IS A LIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy Well....I'll agree with you partways. The Bachmann Spectrum line of steam engines and heavyweight passenger cars is absolutely great. They were WAY ahead of the curve on predicting the popularity of both. When Bachmann introduced their new 2-8-0, who would have thought that Life Like, Athearn, Lionel and Trix would have followed suit, and who could have forseen BLI? Right now, the only major motive power manufacturers NOT making HO scale steam are Atlas and Kato. Their loss. Bachmann has also almost singlehandedly introduced the modeling community to On30. If I wasn't into superpower steam, I'd be modeling On30 in a heartbeat. I'm sure our G scale friends will also agree that Bachmann stuff is great (and affordable!) As for the regular line, well.......it serves a purpose. All Bachmann freight cars are Tyco quality, the only really good diesel is the new 44-tonner, and the standard line of steam should have been retired long ago. This end of Bachmann's business is geared for the toy train throwaway market, and shouldn't really be held against Bachmann. Even Life Like still has their toy train line. I don't hear a lot of "Life Like? That crud?", from people whose only experience with LL isn't P2K. You're right though, Trainboy; people bashing Bachmann bug me too. I cringe any time I see "Botchmann", "Buckmann" or any other nasty term for this great company.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Oklahoma Train Nut does anyone back me up here ????