EZ Street Starter Set

That's amazing that Bachmann came out with an E Z Street starter set. I will have to check it out later today or tomorrow and the rest of their new catalog.

I might buy the set just for the Plasticville Turnpike toll booth.

 

Lee Fritz

Philly, call us we do have the turnpikes in stock, so you don't have to buy the set.

Charlie, what is your phone number? It don't show up completely on the website.

 

Lee Fritz

This is what Bachmann really needed to do to bootstrap its sales: a good RTR set - well, any RTR set actually.  This one seems to be essentially equivalent to the K-Line and K-Line by Lionel ones.   

 

Edit: It took a long time to download the catalog - must be a ton of folks doing so now.  I'm glad Bachmann offered the E-Z Street RTR set but I think they may have missed a great opportunity.  A set with perhaps a slightly longer oval and the Peter Witt would be a very good idea!  Note they mention (page 18) that the Peter Witt "Navigates O-21 curves" - wonder who makes those?

Since the Superstreets came out under K-line I've wanted to make a Highway clover leaf layout with the four way crossing in the middle. It could be a very dynamic and animated layout because the car would go all over in exciting ways. This would be a fun start.

I'm surprised to see the cars are forward direction only. However, it's good to see the Streets  product line return to O Scale. 

 

Copter

As far as I know, all Streets vehicles, Superstreets and EZ Streets have always been forward only. 

Not so for the trolleys.

 

Except for the very first K-line Ford vans, which had e-units and actually pre-dated 'Streets, having been first designed as track inspection vehicles, all 'Streets vehicles, except the very rare TMCC ones Lionel made, go only forward: they have rectifiers installed so, regardless of AC or DC and the polarity of the DC, they go only forward.  If you have seen videos of my cars and trucks backing up it is because I had removed the rectifiers and run them on DC so they will back up on reverse polarity.  

Glad I got the TMCC version.

 

Copter