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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.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

  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.  

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.) 

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!

The GM&O was not the only railroad to have GP30s riding on ALCO trucks.  The SOO had 22, according to Our GM Scrapbook.  The Milwaukee also had some-the Milwaukee converted some RS3s to switchers by replacing the AAR Type Bs with Alco Blunt trucks and sending the RS3 trucks to EMD for reuse under the GP30s. Originally Posted by D500:

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.) 

 

Originally Posted by falconservice:

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

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.

Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:
Originally Posted by falconservice:

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

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 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.

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