Thomas and Friends in N from Bachmann

[Steven B]

Bachmann have released some photos on Twitter (no account needed to see them) of unpainted samples of their new N Gauge Thomas and Friends range

Percy:
https://twitter.com/bachmanntrains/status/1179765231561662466

Annie/Clarabel:
https://twitter.com/bachmanntrains/status/1179470057052758016

Troublesome Truck
https://twitter.com/bachmanntrains/status/1178757874794844160

[bridgiesimon]

Very interesting, they look good so far!

best wishes
Simon

[Railwaygun]

I prefer the Tomix faces though

[Dr Al]

Percy could be a very useful chassis....

Cheers,
Alan

[Train Waiting]

Thank you very much for this.

The carriage looks jolly interesting; hopefully the other one has a brake end.  Sorry;
not sure which is Annie and which is Clarabel!

I think the 009 people might find Percy's chassis of interest...

Best wishes.

John

[BrakeCoach]

Thank you very much for this.

The carriage looks jolly interesting; hopefully the other one has a brake end.  Sorry;
not sure which is Annie and which is Clarabel!

I think the 009 people might find Percy's chassis of interest...

Best wishes.

John

I also wish that they get Clarabel's guard compartment right!

[JonMann]

Has there been a stealth release of these in America or anywhere, as watching a youtube video by Train Tsar fun, he had Annie and Clarabel, though no Thomas as yet.

Check out at 3:01 in the following vid.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGrGFbCqC4s

[guest373]

Trainworld.com in the US are showing due date 30 September 2020 for Thomas & coaches at 129.99$. Plus impoert duty for non-US members of course.

[Railwaygun]

Has there been a stealth release of these in America or anywhere, as watching a youtube video by Train Tsar fun, he had Annie and Clarabel, though no Thomas as yet.

Check out at 3:01 in the following vid.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGrGFbCqC4s

Alas Toby is in G!

[JonMann]

He has posted another video tonight of them running with a Tomix Thomas, Annie and Clarabel. Smaller than the Tomix versions and both seem to be the same mold, only thing that seems different to me is the names on them, even the faces are the same.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TQe1wwFldg

[ntpntpntp]

oooof, his Tomix Thomas isn't running very smoothly! Ours is really good.

The size difference is quite striking. If the Bachmann Thomas is scaled to match their coaches I foresee a few nice conversions for British layouts 

[Paddy]

Nice models but a shame there is no brake coach.  Definitely looks like the new Thomas is to British N gauge.  Getting tempted...  For our Grandsons obviously!



Kind regards

Paddy

[PGN]

But ... but ... but ...

When did A & C become 4-wheelers? In all of the Rev W Awdry's illustrations, they are DEFINITELY bogie coaches!

[ntpntpntp]

But ... but ... but ...

When did A & C become 4-wheelers? In all of the Rev W Awdry's illustrations, they are DEFINITELY bogie coaches!

Because of the TV series which will be more familiar to TTT fans of today?  Hornby's OO A & C are the same, and they've been around for at least 20 years (I know, still got my lad's OO sets)

[PGN]

Ahhhhh ... I see.

I still rely upon my dark blue cloth-bound hardbacks as my authentic source of information here ... although I'm missing a few. I still need to acquire:

No. 2    Thomas the Tank Engine
No. 4    Tank Engine Thomas Again
No. 8    Gordon the Big Engine
No. 11   Percy the Small Engine
No. 13   Duck and the Diesel Engine
No. 20   Very Old Engines
No. 23   Enterprising Engines
No. 24   Oliver the Western Engine
No. 26   Tramway Engines
No. 27   Really Useful Engines
No. 28   James and the Diesel Engine
No. 29   Great Little Engines
No. 30   More about Thomas the Tank Engine
No. 31   Gordon the High-Speed Engine
No. 32   Toby, Trucks and Trouble
No. 33   Thomas and the Twins
No. 34   Jock the New Engine
No. 35   Thomas and the Great Railway Show
No. 36   Thomas Comes Home

And any after that ...

I have a few oddities, too, in particular:

My copy of No. 6, Henry the Green Engine, is bound in a cover which is tooled in red with "Thomas the Tank Engine" and a profile of Thomas on the front

My copy of No. 9, Edward the Blue Engine, is in its right binding but upside down and back to front

If anyone want to trade me some of my missing ones, I have duplicates of:

No. 5   Troublesome Engines (glossy board-backed, not blue cloth-bound)
No. 8   Henry the Green Engine (paperback)
No. 16 Branch Line Engines (glossy board-backed)