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Model Railroading > OK, What do I have here?Date: 04/12/25 19:07 OK, What do I have here? Author: ns2557 Along with a few other pieces, including an ATLAS Master Series Gold B&M GP40-2 and a few cars, My son presented this to me this afternoon. He received it from his soon to be Father In Law at no cost. I am impressed with it all. Excatly what is this set here? Shot 1 shows how it was given to me, the others are detail shots of the cars. They all appear to be built, detailed models, I just have not kept up on the hobby overall. What do y'all think? Thanks for any input. Ben
   Date: 04/12/25 19:25 Re: OK, What do I have here? Author: DJLRailProductions They're all Bachmann Spectrum RTR products.
Date: 04/12/25 19:26 Re: OK, What do I have here? Author: UP951West Bachmann Spectrum equipment . Looks to be in nice condition. Minimum 22 inch radius curves for this set.
Date: 04/12/25 20:00 Re: OK, What do I have here? Author: wabash2800 I think the Bachman Spectrum cars are modeled after PRR cars.
Victor Baird Date: 04/13/25 01:45 Re: OK, What do I have here? Author: screeh Jerry Britton notes that the Bachmann coaches are a match for PRR's class P70, the observation is close to an early PRR class Z74 business car, and the combine is a stand in for the PB70 but is longer than the prototype:
https://jbritton.pennsyrr.com/index.php/tpm/125-bachmann-prr-passenger-car-models Here are some rabbit holes to travel down if you want to learn about all the various subclasses & rebuilds: https://jbritton.pennsyrr.com/index.php/tpm/68-the-p70-in-the-pennsy-coach-fleet https://jbritton.pennsyrr.com/index.php/tpm/blogs/latest-articles-blog/195-prr-steel-business-cars Date: 04/13/25 09:26 Re: OK, What do I have here? Author: railstiesballast Santa Fe heavyweight passenger cars usually had/have a distinctive channel along the bottom of the sides.
If you like it run it as is, all it has to do is make you happy. Date: 04/13/25 13:45 Re: OK, What do I have here? Author: boejoe Nice gift Ben. How many cars total?
jb Date: 04/14/25 09:16 Re: OK, What do I have here? Author: ns2557 boejoe Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Nice gift Ben. How many cars total? > jb About 6 other than the ones seen here. The gent is a B&M Fan as the cars he gave my son are all B&M. They are: ATLAS Trainman, Evans Gondola, Item #20 000 247; ATLAS Item #1801-3, PS2 Covered Hopper B&M # 5544 (Really find this one good); ATHEARN 50Ft Youngstown Plug Door Box B&M 154 Item 74801; 2 Bachman Box Cars not in box; ACCURAIL Item # 2087, ACF Covered Hopper 3 Bay as B&M 5752. Small group as it is but most look real good. And then there is the ATLAS Master Line GP40-2 as B&M 314. Ben |