You are right Mike Bachmann must have moved quickly to get it out, I guess the tooling was made but not used in anger until after the takeover. Did it come out with the Mainline version of the ringfield or had they progressed to the flat sided can motor. I have a 4-6-0 sold by Replica bearing a made by Bachmann brand on the keeper plate. It had the can motor, but my earlier Collet Goods had the ringfield style motor, it was sold as a non runner because someone had put a long screw in both ends of one of the straight through holes. I also have a Bachmann "replacement chassis" which I used to sort out a Lima 94xx tank which had a worse designed chassis than anything Palitoy created.Mike Parkes wrote:The Gresley 2-6-2T was first released in 1992 in the Bachmann range and was significant in being Bachmann's first UK loco that had not come from tooling previously used for Palitoy's Mainline range. The manufacturer of the Bachmann UK range and most of the earlier Palitoy Mainline range as well as the late 1980s Replica models is Kader Industrial Co Ltd.Bufferstop wrote:The model was introduced by "I think Palitoy" under the name "Mainline" it may well have been produced by the same people who produced it for Bachman.
In all of those designs I have not had a single example of zinc rot. Do you think it is safe to uncross my fingers yet?