Bachmann G Emily

NICE!

Did not realize this was a Thomas and Friends engine! I wondered why you wanted to change the boiler front! LOL!

Not having seen the boiler front with the face, I thought it might have been one of those live steam locos with various names!

Nope. It's a plastic G scale

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Bachmann (Emily with the moving eyes), an example of the Sterling engines developed by the Great Northern Railway (British) in 1870.  Part of the "Thomas and Friends" large scale toy train series by Bachmann, #91404.

Not to scale but accurately proportioned. It has a nice "vintage" look. Paint is exceptional , most features molded in. The backhead is unadorned, so I had a sticker made up showing some boiler piping and details.

Lots of G scale folks have worked at making this model more accurate with detailed piping and castings. I like it as is but could not get used to the "moving eyes" or the blank boiler back head. I also wanted to add a little more GNR decals.  

Really a unique engine. I have only ever seen it modeled in "live steam" large scale and in HO.

Wish MTH  had made one in tinplate.

Thanks!

Here it sits on a shelf with a pair of  discontinued  Christmas coaches.

2 pics one to show the front trucks. The coaches are Bachmann from a discontinued set. No opening doors, molded in details, hook couplers, and no lights.

A NICE and unique loco!

How about a video of Emily running?

If you have time, show us the modified Emily running! - THANKS! :-)

Rich has done some nice work to transform Emily into more of an authentic Stirling Single. As someone pointed out on another site, the Bachmann Emily is somewhat of a real model of the Sterling disguised as a toy. I would love to be able to replace the Bachmann plastic chassis and boiler/cab with tinplate, but that is beyond my humble metalworking capabilities. So I will try to do what Rich and others have done with Emily, that is, make the loco look as close as possible to the prototype.  There are additional parts available from the UK, both loose and in kit form to help with the transformation. This will be a summer 2021 project for me.  Unfortunately, a tinplate or more correct model of the Sterling is rare. There was a Carette live steam GNR single over 100 years ago, and the Aster live Steam version about 25 years ago, of which only 300 were made. When an Aster is available they usually sell for several thousand dollars. So we are left with the Bachmann, which costs a few hundred dollars if we would like to have a reasonable facsimile.