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Here they are, the new Davenports -- cute as a bug in a rug!
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Look at the counterweights on those side-rod connected wheels. I'd like to see one of these moving.
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SWMTP angles around to shoot the Davenports from the front -- Oh look! What have we here?
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A profile shot..
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MSRP of $275.00 gets you this long caboose, and a detailed interior as well.
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This is what some people are calling Stan Ames' '2nd Generation' socket. Stan just calls it an industry-standard 8 pin socket suitable for handling loads of 1 amp or less.
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And a back view. I think this resin (?) character figure is also a prototype that will come along with the crummy.
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Okay, here's the punch-line. The logging Mallet! MSRP of $1275, or in the neighborhood. A Bachmann Rep I talked to said that although it's announced for November, we probably won't see it until December. The prototype will take R1 curves, grudgingly and with a little fudging. ( I think this is rep-talk for 'don't try this at home'.) Spectrum, yes, Tsunami or Pseudo-Tsunami, no.
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This prototype was sitting high on a box in the middle of a table (with a train running around it!) The Rep and I tried to throw a tape measure up along it, but never quite got it straight. Our 'best guess' is a length of 25 inches. (And no, it wasn't in a spec sheet!)
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I think he said that there would be five versions, but I only remember three. Black undecorated, Undec with red window trim, and "Little River". Now that's an interesting choice.
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Why? Because this is a 1:20.3 model of a three-foot gauge engine designed in 1929 for the Biles-Coleman Lumber Co. which never got built! (And I'm guessing that "Biles-Coleman" is one of the versions that will be available, I just didn't hear it.) The "American River" engine was built in 1909, (which puts it possibly in my layout's time period, huzzah!) but it was a standard gauge engine! Apparently, all the American Logging Mallets which Baldwin built were standard gauged.
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So this model, in effect, has no prototype. As soon as you take it out of the box and put it on your track, you'll be playing "what if?"
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Now that's just fine with me, although I'm aware that there are some rivet counters out there who won't put a window shade in a tender's doghouse unless they can find it in a picture somewhere. Myself, I'm just wondering how my little on-again off-again Squirrel Creek Lumber Company. is going to justify this motive power!
Look at the counterweights on those side-rod connected wheels. I'd like to see one of these moving.
SWMTP angles around to shoot the Davenports from the front -- Oh look! What have we here?
A profile shot..
MSRP of $275.00 gets you this long caboose, and a detailed interior as well.
This is what some people are calling Stan Ames' '2nd Generation' socket. Stan just calls it an industry-standard 8 pin socket suitable for handling loads of 1 amp or less.
And a back view. I think this resin (?) character figure is also a prototype that will come along with the crummy.
Okay, here's the punch-line. The logging Mallet! MSRP of $1275, or in the neighborhood. A Bachmann Rep I talked to said that although it's announced for November, we probably won't see it until December. The prototype will take R1 curves, grudgingly and with a little fudging. ( I think this is rep-talk for 'don't try this at home'.) Spectrum, yes, Tsunami or Pseudo-Tsunami, no.
This prototype was sitting high on a box in the middle of a table (with a train running around it!) The Rep and I tried to throw a tape measure up along it, but never quite got it straight. Our 'best guess' is a length of 25 inches. (And no, it wasn't in a spec sheet!)
I think he said that there would be five versions, but I only remember three. Black undecorated, Undec with red window trim, and "Little River". Now that's an interesting choice.
Why? Because this is a 1:20.3 model of a three-foot gauge engine designed in 1929 for the Biles-Coleman Lumber Co. which never got built! (And I'm guessing that "Biles-Coleman" is one of the versions that will be available, I just didn't hear it.) The "American River" engine was built in 1909, (which puts it possibly in my layout's time period, huzzah!) but it was a standard gauge engine! Apparently, all the American Logging Mallets which Baldwin built were standard gauged.
So this model, in effect, has no prototype. As soon as you take it out of the box and put it on your track, you'll be playing "what if?"
Now that's just fine with me, although I'm aware that there are some rivet counters out there who won't put a window shade in a tender's doghouse unless they can find it in a picture somewhere. Myself, I'm just wondering how my little on-again off-again Squirrel Creek Lumber Company. is going to justify this motive power!
