Bachmann RS-3

[jwb]

Thanks, that's good info on 194 and 197 -- haven't found a photo of 194 yet, but it's good to know. On phases, I've slowly learned -- in part from some of the guys who thought up "phases" in the first place -- not to rely so much on the idea, since production changes were easy to confuse with customer options, and things like the fuel tank size (customer option) mixed with engineering changes on things like the ventilation holes in GP7 and GP9 skirts can really get confusing. A lot of the same applies to RS-3s, leaving out that some late RS-2s were in RS-3 carbodies. All of the WM RS-3s had the late-style air filter intakes in the hood doors, but they also had customer options like fuel tanks, high angled number boards, and the equipment boxes ahead of the cab on the left running board, plus something or other, heater or something, ahead of the cab on the right running board, plus extended exhaust stacks. Big differences from Bachmann, Athearn, and Atlas, anyhow -- you'd have to dig up a Stewart kit as a start for an accurate one, but that would still leave you with a lot of extra work.