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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #15 on: August 11, 2023, 06:33:20 PM »
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Gross.  :facepalm:
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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #16 on: August 11, 2023, 09:08:35 PM »
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Much like the situation at Hornby's in the UK, "The Suits (tm)" are in charge at Bachmann...

Haven't bought anything from them in many years.

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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2023, 10:16:13 PM »
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With the possible exception of the bolsters (to fit the knuckle coupler trucks), I don't believe these have been updated in any way since the 70's. The tooling is literally 50 years old at this point. I think the body could be saved if everything else was retooled. A new underframe, end rails and walkways would do wonders to update the model. But the caboose is no match for the Atlas wide vision, or any other in N for that matter.

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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2023, 10:45:26 PM »
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Hey guys, come on. I mean it is weighted for optimum performance.
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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #19 on: August 11, 2023, 11:03:40 PM »
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Hey guys, come on. I mean it is weighted for optimum performance.

. . . and designed to travel through flooded areas.
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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #20 on: August 12, 2023, 02:40:44 AM »
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Makes my old ConCor version look good - and I scrapped them as soon as the Atlas cars appeared.  Offhand I can't recall where they are, probably still in the old (abandoned) house, if the floor hasn't rotted out from under them.
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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #21 on: August 12, 2023, 07:18:26 AM »
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. . . and designed to travel through flooded areas.

Made me actually laugh out loud  :D

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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #22 on: August 12, 2023, 06:47:06 PM »
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Bachman should be ashamed of themselves. I hope they make a million of them and sell…







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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #23 on: August 12, 2023, 07:49:32 PM »
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Apart from the couplers (and possibly the trucks), this looks like the same exact model they've been selling for 50+ years.

http://www.spookshow.net/freight/bachwv.html

-Mark

Yup. Back in the mid 80s I lowered one of these, made new hand rails out of brass wire, body mounted couplers, painted and decaled it, etc. I still have it (nostalgia), but it looks like crap to me - especially after the Atlas model came out in the 1990s. :D


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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #24 on: August 13, 2023, 09:38:36 AM »
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Yup. Back in the mid 80s I lowered one of these, made new hand rails out of brass wire, body mounted couplers, painted and decaled it, etc. I still have it (nostalgia), but it looks like crap to me - especially after the Atlas model came out in the 1990s. :D
It was so much easier to go through the trouble of improving these cars in the 1980s when they were $2-3 in the bargain bin. Yeah, I know, inflation and all, but my income is not 10 times what it was in 1985, so I can't afford trains that cost 10 times as much as they did in 1985. Luckily, locos, like power tools, have not seen anything like the inflation on rolling stock (or hand tools).

Frankly, it is 2023. By now, everyone should have caught up with Rivarossi tooling quality of 1968. It's not like we are asking Bachmann to produce up to MTL quality of 1972
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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #25 on: August 14, 2023, 08:41:46 PM »
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The killer is these are pretty close to a Rock Island prototype, so it's not like something they came up with out of thin air.

Add an etched roof walk, tool a new frame that uses trucks that allow for an accurate ride height and they'd have a decemt caboose on their hands.

Bachmann also used the wrong roof like Athearn did with their HO model

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Re: Bachmann Wide Vision Caboose...
« Reply #26 on: August 15, 2023, 10:15:44 AM »
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Much like the situation at Hornby's in the UK, "The Suits (tm)" are in charge at Bachmann...

Haven't bought anything from them in many years.

Then you have missed out on some really nice models, especially the more recently designed locomotives.  Their recent steamers have been excellent.

Bob