WBB GP30

Ray,

here's the photo they have on their site:

http://www.bachmanntrains.com/...d&productId=4167

We had another thread on this and there was the video taken at York and they were showing the ACL unit, looked nice!  here's the link to the thread:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/d...ent/5512461217123835

Wholesale trains has them for pre-order at $213 with an estimated delivery of 1-10-13:

https://www.wholesaletrains.co...ail.asp?ID=200875059

I hope they do them in the C&O Scheme with the Blue Car Body with the Yellow Noses and Ends, that will make me by them even more

Original Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Santa Fe, Seaboard Air Line, Louisville & Nashville, and Burlington GP30 Schemes are what Bachmann must offer in the next releases of the EMD GP30 diesels.

The high-short hood GP30 would be great for Norfolk & Western and Southern Railway.

Andrew

Why not Chicago $ Eastern Illinois? For a black and white scheme, they looked pretty good.

Dan 

Until they offer the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio they are not producing the most attractive GP30 paint scheme. No, I am not prejudiced at all!!! I do plan to 2R and paint one GM&O very soon. I already have the decals right here in my hands!

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/gmo/gmo509.jpg

Malcolm

  Don't forget the Reading!  The Reading was the first purchaser of the GP30.  I had read that the Reading originally ordered GP20s just before EMD transitioned to the GP30.  The Reading traded in it's FTs:EMD reused the trucks under the 30s.

   An EMD Demo scheme would be good idea too for those who like the GP 30, but whose favorite road didn't run them.  

Reading Lines purchased 20 of the GP-30's by EMD, roadnumbers 5501 to 5520.

Reading also had GP-35's and GP-39-2's, but no GP-38's.

The Reading may have traded in some F-7 units as well.

Lee Fritz

Per Brother Love's post above:

When the GM&O black and white GP30 shows up from WBB, so will my wallet...if there are dummies, I'll buy one of those too. I doubt that WBB will get the truck side frames correct, but as I am sure that the basic "power block" is the same, their FA-1 side frames will do just fine.

And GM&O items seem to sell well; there has been much produced by more than one

manufacturer. MTH has even done -two- GM&O Pacific "approximations" (RK and

Premier). So WBB - what's the holdup?

(Funny thing: that would be very prototypical, as the GM&O's GP30's (and 35's) rode

on Alco/AAR trucks from traded-in Alco FA-1's. This was not uncommon.) 

A hag in a lovely gown is still a hag.  Of course you can always turn out the lights... 

Pete

Texas Pete:

Though I still want one of the hoped-for GM&O units, I, too, have always found the GP30's

"beauty" to be, ah, challenging. (I used to see them around Mobile in the 70's, but

wasn't much of a railfan then - even though I was working for the ICG; just a job.)

Funny thing, though: the Southern Railway had GP30's with high noses, and there

is one (running) at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, in the black Southern

Tuxedo scheme. When I saw it a couple of years ago I was surprisingly impressed

with its looming, bison-like appearance. Pretty, no (and what locomotive really is

"pretty"?) - but that high snoot and black paint made for an imposing beast. 

I'd sure buy an O-gauge version of it!

When Bachmann makes a Chicago & Eastern Illinois GP7 diesel, they can also get around to making a Chicago & Eastern Illinois GP30 diesel, plus the C&EI Caboose with the streamlined cupola, like what Bachmann makes in HO Scale.

Andrew

Just to whet your appetites, here is a photo of the first production GP30 (MTH Premier MT-2073LP)

While some people mention different truck styles that were used, WBB will probably have only one truck style for the whole run of GP-30's. Also some of the lesser railroads will most likely be missed out on as they don't sell as well, also from WBB "Undecorated will not be done!" As it don't sell! 

Lee Fritz

The Bachmann HO caboose is a model of the CB&Q NE12 waycar, built in the company's Havelok shops.

The C&EI caboose was built by American Car and Foundry.

Rusty

I hope when these are released, other liveries come quickly. Bachmann can be painfully slow in this regard. The recently released Genesis Phase V a case in point.

Also, retrofitable sound boards too will be a gerat step forward for the rest of the current range. The GP30 already having sound, smoke and LED's for a street price over a little over $200 make themselves extremely attractive for a basic ERR Command board. With the addition of a pair of electro-couplers and you have a killer value loco.

I would not count on Bachmann/Williams making a caboose that was re-constructed in another railroad company's shop, they won't even make anything other then the N5c caboose that most real railroads didn't use, or they kit-bashed the N5c's into other style cabooses.

Also O gauge is not like H.O. in that some things in O just won't sell good after being made.

Lee F.

An Alaska RR version is on my wish list.  No hurry at this point since I have several new locomotives from Santa that I haven't even opened or run yet.  My stocking is full and my wallet is empty!  

I got the email from Mario Romano (Mario's Trains; no relation!) saying that they have arrived!  A NYC one should be on its way very soon!

PS - I have a set of 4 Lionel ALCo AAR sideframes in silver if anyone wants to buy them for their WBB GP30...

I'm stoked!

Thanks,

Mario

Alaska Railroad only had one GP30 diesel. So if they make it it will be because Alaska Railroad is one of the most popular railroads.

Andrew

I'm confident they will make AAR 2000 (bought new in 1963) at some future date.