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U36B Diesel Locomotive
Auto Train
No. 622 -1974 Release
No. 642 -1975 Release
U36B Diesel Locomotive
Chessie System
No. 626 -1974 Release
No. 41-640-09 -1982 Release
U36B Diesel Locomotive
Conrail
No. 624 -1978 Release
U36B Diesel Locomotive
CP Rail
Made for the Canadian market, the CP Rail U36B does not appear in Bachmann's annual product catalogs.
The CP Rail example was offered in the U.S. as an exclusive offering from a mail order hobby shop, SMC located in California.
SMC lists the CP Rail U36B and a few other Canadian Bachmann offerings as exclusive items in a mid-'76 advertisement.
U36B Diesel Locomotive
Illinois Central Gulf
No. 621 -Powered -1975 Release
No. 641 -Dummy -1975 Release
U36B Diesel Locomotive
Rock Island
No. 623 -1978 Release
No. 41-640-08 -1982 Release
U36B Diesel Locomotive
Santa Fe
No. 632 -1978 Release
No. 41-640-02 -1982 Release
U36B Diesel Locomotive
Santa Fe (Chrome)
No. 633 -1978 Release
U36B Diesel Locomotive
Southern Pacific
No.634 -1981 Release
No.41-640-07 -1982 Release
The Southern Pacific U36B is listed as NEW in Bachmann's 1979 catalog. The SP U-boat had an
$18.00 retail price for its debut year. Bachmann's paint scheme appears to be inspired by the Southern Pacific's
experimetal Daylight paint applied to the four U25B rebuilds that outshopped in the late '70s by
Morrison-Knudsen with Swiss Sulzer engines and called then TE70-4S's. In addition to this Southern Pacific
U36B, Bachmann applied a similar SP Daylight paint scheme to its GP40 and F9 models.
U36B Diesel Locomotive
Union Pacific
Above is the original 8-wheel drive found in early examples of Bachmann's U36B diesel. Below
is the mid-'70s introduced single-truck powered drive.
Above are 1974 Bachmann ads promoting the U36B diesels. You may click
on either image to view a larger version of the ad.
Originally buyers for General Electric's U36B were few, though the diesel was produced from 1970
through 1974. Seaboard Coast Line bought the majority of the 125 examples produced by GE with a fleet of 108 on the SCL.
Auto-Train had an unlucky 13 and would have owned 17 had bankruptcy not came up before delivery of 4 new fully painted U36B's
that never worked for the carrier. The Auto-Train orphan U36B's ended up going to Conrail.
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