What would you like to see from WBB in 2013?

I would like to see Williams expand their line of Conventional Classis.

 

Earl

The 675 / 2025 K4 Steamer, and B&O 027 FA's. Sounds like a winner to me!

More products in C & O markings. They have pretty much ignored C & O with a few items in Chessie System colors marked for C & O.

GP30 in original C&O livery

I agree like to see C&O and B&O the newer paint like the nw-2 switcher and also see gp-30 in chessie and gp-9 and nw-2 as well  

Different paint and road #s on the BL2 engines

 

Gunny

My thought exactly! Plus a better smoke unit and vanderbilt tenders.

 

jerry

'SEPARATE SALE' Vanderbilt tenders and bring back the die-cast separate sale 773W / Berkshire tenders.

I would like to see a highly detailed PRR K4 at traditional WBB prices.

 

Al W.

How about more parts listed for existing locomotives. New two car add on's besides the coach's. GP7/9's with a low nose. 

I second this. Also one year they offered the berkshire painted but unlettered. I would go for one of those.

 

I'd like to see their USRA Light 2-8-2 Mikado they announced earlier, but cancelled, and at a lower price.

+1 on the WBB Mikado! I really would like one for my "heritage" steam excursions. I was really ready to buy it, then it got cancelled

The locomotive I would like WBB or any of the manufacturer's to make........

 

 

Vanderbilt tender is a great idea. They could get the K-line molds. They made a nice one. I think a huge seller would be a drop in passenger car interior and clear windows as a kit. They would sell old and new customers. Don

For fear of getting tomatoes thrown at me I will ask quietly for an add on kit for sound and TMCC already installed or shipped separate in a box. Hmmm I wonder if ERR could make arangements with WBB.... then a person could order an engine with ... or with out!

More operating cars using the "operate anywhere" remote.

 

Tony

Up on "The D & H Bridge Line"

How about more differant style cabooses? Bachmann makes at least three styles of caboose in H.O., so why not O gauge?

We need something other than just the N5c caboose, as I did a Wikipedia search and the N5c caboose is not the most common except in model trains.

 

How about more realistic Plasticville buildings? Or more selection in O & S gauge offerings of Plasticville, like they do for H.O.

 

Lee F.

Bachmann can make all the K-Line O Scale locomotives, cabooses, and freight cars, if their factory can find the time to produce them.

 

Andrew

With the guys running Bachmann you have to have several specific suggestions handy as examples.

Their Electro-Motive Division General Purpose diesel-electric locomotive has to be called a GP7/GP9 so that they can now finally offer it in new road names like Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, Illinois Terminal, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chesapeake & Ohio, Texas & Pacific, Frisco SL-SF, and Detroit & Toledo Shore Line. Calling it only a GP9 seems to be a mental barrier to adding new railroad paint schemes.

 

Chicago & Eastern Illnois caboose.

 

Andrew

someone needs to make the Roger Williams...

 

but i'd be happy if they started making the metroliners once again

 

Bachmann offers very nice models of GE 44 ton and 70 ton units:

 

 

 

 

 

It would be nice to see O scale versions of these locomotives.

 

Bob

 

Bachmann has to add the originally K-line made Evans Products Covered Coil Car to their roster of freight cars.

 

The first Evans Coil Car to offer is the B&O Cushion Coil Car with the Capitol Dome Logo on a navy blue background on a Gray Hood.

 

The second Evans Coil Car to offer is the B&O Capitol Dome Logo on a Navy Blue Hood.

 

http://www.corbisimages.com/st.../aci-magnetic-strips

 

K-Line made a strange B&O variation that never came through on any freight train. This situation needs to be corrected immediately by Bachmann.

 

 

Andrew

Bachmann HO version of the Burlington NE12 waycar 

 

 

 

 

That caboose can be made in O Scale with both one and two windows on the side of the cupola.

 

Andrew 

Bachmann's HO model of a GE 45 ton center cab unit with side rods would make for an interesting O scale locomotive:

 

 

 

Bob

You have to know if Bachmann get the legal rights to make and sell certain K-Line products, as the break-up of K-Line got very tricky; Bachmann got some stuff, and RMT got some stuff. I think that RMT got most of the freight car items, but not sure.

 

I would loove to see some of the old K-Line items made again, the MP-15 in most of the roadnames that purchased it from EMD.

 

Lee Fritz

I'm with Don, interior kits for passenger cars, and passenger cars with interiors fitted, please?

Phillyreading,

I was hoping tht between WBB and RMT getting old K-LINE molds, that they

could reproduce the old MARX tinplate products.

 

Thanks,

 

Phil

 

More roadnames for the present 19th century steamer and then more variety of 19th century steamers

also switches for superstreets / ez streets

also passenger cars with interiors instead of silouettes

Larry S

Lee Fritz:

 

RMT is scheduled to release the former K-Line MP15:

 

http://www.readymadetoys.com/mpdilooc2220.html

 

Bob

One far out musing (and it is just that), on Williams Engines offer a DCC compatible plug, kind of like what they do with 2 rail HO products. Given they are running DC motors on their products, it should be doable, and it theory it means someone could pretty easily upgrade williams engines to DCC control using one of the systems already out there. I suspect it wouldn't add that much to the cost of production to do that and would give williams' users flexibility.

A BETTER SMOKE UNIT!

 How about a nice big boilered Consolidation(2-8-0)?  Use the drivers from the 4-6-0, and also the tender as well.   Either a wagon top boiler, a Camelback or both would be cool as they could share the same chassis.  Maybe use the lead truck from the Berkshire(2-8-4) as well.  No Belpaire please. 

E-Z Streets!  More vehicles and left and right turnouts.

For easy additions just paint changes I'd love to see a BL2 in Saratoga and North Creek paint. They have two fictional units and in season they meet two daily Amtrak trains at Saratoga.

I'd also like to see the U boat in Autotrain White red and purple.

Bachmann's HO and N scale ALCo built Mogul might be a nice addition to the O scale line:

 

 

 

Bob

Scale E60 in Amtrak and Nj Transit.  I have three of their Scale GG1's, absolutely beautiful and you don't need 072 to run them.

"More operating cars using the "operate anywhere" remote."

yes!!

and 15-16" passenger cars with full, populated interiors.