Hi Greg,
I have Insider’s volume 21 2&3, plus 40 others dated back to 2003. I tried to put a PDF file on this page, but it won’t work. If I had your email address I could send them to you.
Have fun with your trains.
Al Hedrick
Received the email from TW (on Thurs.) about the ‘new’ Bachmann product … too bad they did not do a Canadian Flag Eggliner !
They would likely sell more than the ‘American Independence’. imho 
doug c
Thanks Al! My email address is in my signature on every post, at the bottom: [email protected]
I am going to post links on my site once I have the PDF collection complete, so anyone can download them.
I am missing:
anything from 2014, if it exists
2013, volume 21, numbers 2 and 3
2011, volume 19, numbers 5 and 6
2010, volume 18, numbers 4,5,6
2006, volume 14, numbers 2 through 5
2003, volume 11, number 1
2002, volume 10, numbers 1 through 5
2001 and older, volumes 9 through 1…
I would be very grateful if anyone has these, I will also pay postage to scan and return originals.
I will put all of these online for everyone to be able to access, it’s a wealth of knowledge and interesting history.
Regards, Greg
Fred Mills said:
Nothing really “New”. Just different paint, and graphics…nothing to attract most Model Railroaders already deep into the hobby.
The 2-6-0 locomotive is 1:20.3, that is if it is a new run of the only Mogul of that type that B’mann produced…the other one was known as the “Industrial Mogul”.
I guess if you just want to add to a layout that is basically animation in your garden, for young children, then the speeder and eggliners are a “Big Thrill”. The eggliners do offer a chance to acquire power trucks for other projects. It might be good information, if the eggliner power trucks are reproductions of the power trucks used under Aristo Diesels of the past. They may be cheap copies with cheap motors like B’mann used to use in handcars and street cars…beware…or…OR…please someone…do a review of this stuff and tell us all if the power trucks are the same…no-one has, so far…
Fred Mills
I had the good luck to see the new moguls and to me they are not just a repaint. Each one had different detail nice metal trucks on the tender and easy to get to the new plug under the fuel load, wood or coal.
richard
The Mogul is a beauty but at that price who could afford one. Not many. Its just like the Forney when it came out. Now how many years later they can be bought for under $300
Shawn Viggiano said:
The Mogul is a beauty but at that price who could afford one. Not many. Its just like the Forney when it came out. Now how many years later they can be bought for under $300
I understand the Mogul has a new metal gear - so no more NWSL replacements!
Maybe the current Moguls are $300 because the new ones are coming . . . Strteet price seems to be about $700.
She is a beauty, but she is also too large for my set up. I run mostly 1:24 when I run narrow gauge, and 1:20.3 is just too large for me. But she sure is pretty.
Greg, I have many of the manuals you are missing in the original soft copies, thus scanning would not be an issue.
I can burn all these on a cd plus add all my Sierra soundtraxx largescale original info.
Plus any thing else I have you might need.
I have most of the Aristo engine manuals also, and USA trains manuals/parts lists.
Shawn Viggiano said:
The Mogul is a beauty but at that price who could afford one. Not many. Its just like the Forney when it came out. Now how many years later they can be bought for under $300
Why do they do this? The MSRP on new engines is so high I wonder how many people pay full price? I also wonder if they kick themselves several months down the line when they can buy that same loco for half or less.
For example: the MSRP on a new Bachamnn 3 truck shay was $1350 then it was discounted to $700, then the going rate was $400+, I just bought one for $279 !
The new Climax and the Forney both experienced this depreciating affect.
What are dealers paying for these engines?
Todd, I do not know what dealer cost is on those things. But when the product gets “stale”, I am pretty sure that price comes down. As for buying it new at the higher price; there will always be those kids who have the be the first on the block with the latest toy. Me, I wait for the sales. Someone once pointed out how much money I saved by getting a certain locomotive on sale, and then proceeded to ask me what I was going to do with the money I saved. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)I had to explain to that person, that if the locomotive had not been on sale, then I would not have been able to purchase it. The “savings” brought the purchase price down to what I could afford, so there is no “money left over”. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-undecided.gif)
David Maynard said:
Todd, I do not know what dealer cost is on those things. But when the product gets “stale”, I am pretty sure that price comes down. As for buying it new at the higher price; there will always be those kids who have the be the first on the block with the latest toy. Me, I wait for the sales. Someone once pointed out how much money I saved by getting a certain locomotive on sale, and then proceeded to ask me what I was going to do with the money I saved. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)I had to explain to that person, that if the locomotive had not been on sale, then I would not have been able to purchase it. The “savings” brought the purchase price down to what I could afford, so there is no “money left over”. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-undecided.gif)
exactly. I waited a long time for the Forney and just this past winter I saw it was under $300 on ebay brand new from some ebay dealer. But you look at some of the online dealers and they still want the original asking price of over $650 Ill give the Mogul a few years and look back into it.
If you visit enough train shows, you will eventually find something at a great price, but not in the color or road scheme you wanted.
I found an LGB never run 25 year old trolley that was repainted cheery red for $30. Also a LGB mogul with analog sound for $90 almost new.
I did not ‘need’ these but could not pass up such a bargain esp when the replacement motors alone are more than I spent on the trolley.
I upgraded the mogul to DCC and sold the sound unit to recover part of my $90 purchase!!
Dan, and that is why I have way too much stuff. I was organizing the garage last month, and I found stuff I didn’t even know that I had. But, that locomotive was at a give away price, so I had to bring it home, along with that set, and that car, oh and that one and…
What? Time for my medication?
Sorry Dan, I have to go now.