Well... Here it is June, already. - June 1, 2009 WE WILL BE CLOSED JUNE 15-20,2009. ELECTRONIC ORDERS WILL BE ACCEPTED, BUT NO WALK-INS OR TELEPHONE ORDERS.
The beginning of summer is usually marked by a complete lack of new products from the manufacturers. Seems that's their quiet period. Backorders get filled, and the manufacturers start prepping for the NMRA National where several of them show of their new products. There WILL be some VERY interesting new motive power for the HO scalers. (C&O fans WILL be pleased)
But here it is June and I just opened up a big box of backorder stuff from Bachmann and their they were. The N Scale GE 44 tonners. I'd seen the preproduction model at Anaheim, but I never saw it run, and I have been quietly skeptical. This is a TINY loco with a TINY motor and gear train. Top this off with a DCC decoder and there is a lot of 'stuff' packed into a very small package.
It runs. Better than that it runs well, very well, and very quietly. Will it pull 95 cars up a 6% grade? Not bloody likely. I'd wager 4-6 cars on the flat. We haven't done a real test, but it effortlessly walked away with a couple of our steel mill bottle cars. There will be those who want it to pull more, but I'll remind them that it is a GE 44 tonner, not an SD90MAC! One small deficiency is that it comes with dummy couplers. Switchers SHOULD have operating couplers! When I mentioned this to the folks at Bachmann they told me that all of their N scale Spectrum models come with dummy knuckle couplers. After a few moments the light came on and I realized that Micro-Trains has the patent on operating N Scale knuckle couplers and Bachmann would be in a world of hurt if they made copies. So...We need to find out what Micro-Trains coupler will fit.
List price is $100.00 and we are selling them for $59.00.
Brass
We have just listed over 200 O scale brass models, most of them Pennsy. All of this came from one collection. The owner had stored them in a warehouse and not looked at them for 4-5 years. When he retired and built a new house several hours away, he decided that moving all of this to a new warehouse, where he probably wouldn't look at it for another 4-5 years, probably didn't make a lot of sense. So now you have a chance at some great brass models that have been out of production for years. Almost all of these are MINT. Some were never unwrapped! BTW: EVERYTHING in this collection is 2 Rail.
If you are going to the O Scale National Convention in Towson, MD (a suburb of Baltimore), June 18-20th, we will be there selling this collection and more. Please do not call and ask us to hold something for you and you will look at it at the convention. All sales are first-come-first-serve. If you want to pay in advance and have us deliver it at Towson that's fine.
We will be displaying some items at the O Scale National that are not for sale. We have a few of the scratch built O scale models made by the late John Gascoyne. He did some beautiful work, and if you are a C&O fan I'm sure you will want to see these models.
The 2009 Steel Mill Modeler's Meet
Things are shaping up for this year's meet in Morrisville, NC (Raleigh-Durham area) September 3-6,2009. Registration for all three days is only $96.00 and that includes the Saturday 'Banquet'. We will have a full slate of seminars from some of the best steel mill modelers in the country, tours of local model railroad layouts focusing on steel, a display and swap area, a popular vote award for the best display/model, and best of all, a chance to swap ideas with other modelers. Go to the web site and click on the ' Steel Mill Modeler's Meet' button for full details and a copy of the registration form.
John Glaab
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