News column - 9
A non-sound version of the Mikado with an MSRP of $299.00 will
be available decorated for Pere Marquette*, Southern Railway*,
Rock Island, St. Louis-San Francisco, and Western Pacific. The loco-
motives will come with a USRA medium tender except those with
an asterisk* which will have USRA long tenders.
Bachmann
showed a pre-pro-
duction sample of
a 40’ double-
sheathed wood
refrigerator car.
The HO scale model will be available later this year decorated for
Merchants Despatch, URT-Union/Soo Line, Pacific Fruit Express,
Pure Carbonic Company, and ART-American Refrigerator Transit
as shown here with Missouri Pacific and Wabash heralds. The
ready-to-run model will have an MSRP of $34.00.
Another pro-
duction run of
Bachmann’s
50-ton two-truck
class B Climax has
been scheduled
for late this year.
The popular geared steam locomotive will have an LED head-
light, all-wheel electrical pickup, and a DCC decoder for speed,
direction, and lighting. Road names will be Moore-Keppel &
Company, W.M. Ritter, Climax demo, and black but unlettered.
The MSRP will be $399.00. A 16-bit Plug-and Play SoundTraxx
Tsunami sound module will be available at an MSRP of $125.00.
Bachmann will rerun its classic American 4-4-0 steam locomo-
tive for delivery late in 2014. Road names will include Atchison,
Topeka & Santa
Fe; Central
Pacific; Union
Pacific; and
Baltimore & Ohio.
The ready-to-run
locomotive will come with a SoundTraxx sound value package
for exhaust chuff, short and long whistles, bell, air pump, and
steam release. The MSRP will be $299.00. A non- sound version
with an MSRP of $229.00 will be offered for Central Pacific,
Union Pacific, Western & Atlantic Railroad, and Pennsylvania
Railroad. It will be DCC-ready with an 8-pin plug.
An impressive
2-8-4 Berkshire
steam locomo-
tive is coming
from Bachmann
later this year. The HO scale ready-to-run model will feature a
heavy diecast chassis, injection-molded plastic superstructure,
and SoundTraxx sound value package for exhaust chuff, short
and long whistles, bell, air pump, steam release, and blower.
The MSRP will be $329.00. Road names include Chesapeake &
Ohio, Nickel Plate Road (railfan version), and Pere Marquette.
The newest HO
scale heavy-
weight passen-
ger car from
Bachmann is an
80’ Pullman 10-2-1 sleeper. Decorating schemes are Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe; Baltimore & Ohio; New York Central;
Union Pacific; and Pennsylvania Railroad as shown here. The
MSRP is $99.00.
MRH-Aug 2014
