No.40 More pulling power – about Bachmann V2s both old and new
So how was your weekend – wet and wild? No gardening here so in between the showers I had time to revisit my Bachmann V2s. 60862 Bachmann Catalogue No. 31-565. ‘60862’ is one of Bachmann’s latest offerings which comes DCC ready and has a ‘fixed’ Cartazzi rear axle. Straight out of the box the engine feels very light weight and at 310 gm it is not as heavy as the models that it replaces. As I have said here on this Blog before – I like playing with my trains and at 310 gm the resulting tractive effort was not acceptable. The lack of weight is a direct result of the cavity provided by Bachmann for storing a decoder. Using some of my supply of second hand lead flashing it was relatively straightforward to fashion three mini slabs of lead, nominally 20 x 35 x 2 mm. The sides of the Bachmann pocket are not square so a little extra filing was needed to get the pieces of lead to wedge into place. he DCC pocket is not the...