Bachmann - 62991 - Streetcar, Electric, PCC Trolley - Cincinnati Street

Specific Item Information: Shown as new in the 2011 Bachmann HO & N Catalog Operated until 1951.

Model Information: This Bachmann streetcar has been around for some decades. Features include: eight-wheel drive, operating headlight, Performs best on 11.25" radius curves or greater.

Road Name History: The CSR was established in 1859 and would become one of more than a dozen streetcar lines in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1880, they began acquiring other lines in the city culminating with the Mount Auburn Cable Railway and Cincinnati & Columbia Street Railway in 1896. CSR was unusual in that they used a 2-wire-2-trolley-poll system. This was due to a conflict with a local phone company who claimed the return current in the rails was causing interference to the phone service. The conversion from streetcar to trolley bus was made much easier by the pre-existing double wire system. The rail service lasted until 1951. The following year, the operation was renamed Cincinnati Transit Commission.

Brand/Importer Information: Bachmann Industries (Bachmann Brothers, Inc.) is a Bermuda registered Chinese owned company, globally headquartered in Hong Kong; specializing in model railroading.

Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the home of its North American headquarters, Bachmann is today part of the Kader group, who model products are made at a Chinese Government joint-venture plant in Dongguan, China. Bachmann's brand is the largest seller, in terms of volume, of model trains in the world. Bachmann primarily specializes in entry level train sets, and premium offerings in many scales. The Spectrum line is the high quality, model railroad product line, offered in N, HO, Large Scale, On30, and Williams O gauge all aimed for the hobbyist market. Bachmann is the producer of the famous railroad village product line known as "Plasticville." The turnover for Bachmann model trains for the year ended 31 December 2006 was approximately $46.87 million, a slight increase of 3.36% as compared to 2005.