Bachmann introduces two electric locomotives to the HO-scale line in 1978. One of them, the dual-ended E60CP would enjoy a long run and even recently returned in an updated form, the other was not so fortunate. The E60CF was offered by Bachmann in two roadnames only, Chessie System and Santa Fe, neither of which every rostered such a locomotive. General Electric built only a half dozen E60CF models beginning in 1972 and they went exclusively to Black Mesa & Lake Powell.

The Bachmann example was a fairly well done attempt at this prototype and included a separately applied pantograph. The E60CF road on a pair of C-trucks, one of which was powered with traction tires as was the practice by Bachmann at this time.

The 1978 retail is listed at $20; $22 in 1979 and $24 in its final cataloged year 1980. The Chessie System E60CF is the only one of the pair to be illustrated by Bachmann in an annual product catalog. The 1978 image appears to be a pre-production example, which seems to greatly favor the American GK tooling. This same illustrated returns in '79, but 1980's catalog does include an actual Bachmann production run example of the Chessie System E60CF. Below is the pre-production E60CF illustration found in 1978 and 1979.