This is a video of an actual Williams line GG-1 pink train set. Bachmann purchased Williams in 2007 and continues to make the Williams brand.

Available at Amazon – O Scale Freight car set: (mouse over to view)
Williams by Bachmann Trains – GG-1 Girls Set Train Set

O Scale Passenger set: (mouse over to view)
Williams by Bachmann Trains – GG-1 Girls Passenger Set

Here’s a video of one of Williams/Bachmann pink train sets in action! Great layout.

Available on Amazon:
Williams by Bachmann Trains – Steam Girls Set Train Set

The Orlando N-trak Club is a well established model railroad club with its own building located off E. Colonial Dr (Highway 50) on the east side of Orlando, Florida. Their train room is 30ft. by 60ft. and they run a Digitrax control system on the permanent layout.

In this video you will see a couple of locations on the permanent layout and the modules. This video has DUBBED AUDIO, so turn up the volume!


Click for more information about the Orlando N-Trak Model Railroad Club


Video Uploaded & Copyrighted by Jared Davis of Whistlepost Productions

Duration : 0:04:56

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Take a look at Tim Dickinson’s wonderful HO Scale Burlington Northern empire as we follow a grain train, with manned helpers, over the mountain and through numerous yards and staging tracks.

While the video shows an overall view of the layout, it’s difficult to get appreciation for the quality level of this railroad without actually seeing it in person.

Duration : 0:9:55

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This is the Longest G Scale Train on YouTube! This incredible 152 car train is being pulled by ONE single Big Boy locomotive made by USA Trains. In the later part of this video, we swapped out the Big Boy for SIX Aristo-Craft Dash 9’s. Two Dash 9’s probably could have pulled the train… but six locomotives looks a lot more impressive.

All the cars in this train has had the plastic wheels swapped out in favor of metal rolling bearing wheels and axles. The funky LGB couplers were changed out to body mounted Kadee couplers. These two items alone have almost doubled the wieght of each car! Had we kept the plastic wheels and LGB couplers on each car, it would have been alot easier to pull the 152 cars. But it would have been a lot more unrealistic too!

Both the Big Boy and the Dash 9’s are being powered by online batteries and are remote controled using AirWire. AirWire is the greatest remote controlled software out there. It does so many things!


We feel the Big Boy could have pulled more than the 152 cars you see here, but some of the couplers kept failing. The preasure of 406 pounds on the first 20 cars is tremendous! It took us nine takes just to get these 3 video segments because of the coupler problems. If we could solve the coupler problem, I really think the Big Boy could be pulling close to 200 cars all by itself! So we will work on that for a future pull.


The Palo Verde and Southwestern RR really lends itself to pulling these long trains. We have extremely long straight-a-ways (there is one straight-a-way @ 297 feet and another one @ 274 feet), all of our curved track has 20′ diameter curves or greater, and, all of our curved track is super elevated. So pulling long trains around the layout is very smooth.


We hope you enjoy this video that we made!
Thanks for watching!
Dennis


Duration : 0:08:48

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This is a video of some quick shots around the O Scale layout. Enjoy and keep the trains running!

Duration : 0:08:06

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Surely there are a lot of girls interested in model railroads, right? In 1957, Lionel Trains asked itself this very same question and came up with the ‘Train Set for Little Girls.

The ready to run train set came with the usual rolling stock but in pastel colors with a pink locomotive it was a brave adventure into an untapped market.

The set was a dismal failure.

Sales were so bad that some shops were painting the trains black so they could sell them.

These trains obviously became very scarce. The 1957 set is so rare that if you found one in the original box that had never been opened it might fetch as much as $25,000.

Lionel 1957 Girl's train

Lionel reissued the set in 1991, 2000 and is set to issue a new set as close to the original 1957 as possible.

Bachmann Industries currently sells 3 different ready to run sets and Warner models issued a limited run GG1 locomotive.

So why don’t train sets designed for girls sell?

The main reason is girls aren’t any different from boys (I know I’m as shocked as you are) girls want realistic looking trains… After all it is a modelling hobby.

Bachmann/Williams Girl's Train Set

Apart from the novelty, a pink train doesn’t contain the same realism and detail as standard rolling stock, its more along the lines of a toy train rather than a model.

 That being said, of course girls like pink and women love to show up at modelling clubs with the pink locomotives just to watch the boys raise their eyebrows… (Hey if you can’t cause a stir where’s the fun?)

Williams by Bachmann Trains – GG-1 Girls Passenger Set

If you’re looking to get a train set for your little girl, your best bet is to go with what they know… either a Thomas and friends HO Scale set from Bachmann industries, Lionel’s movie themed series, The Polar Express or Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Express, both available in G Gauge (huge) and O Gauge (big but durable and  easy to handle)

Now you can ride along with Emily as she proudly displays her splendid passenger cars to all of Sodor. 

Set includes:

Emily HO Scale locomotive with moving eye. 

47″ x 38″ oval of snap-fit E-Z Track

Power pack and speed controller

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