Does this set have HIDDEN GOLD?! Canadaland limited 

I loved how they used an ATSF 3751 class engine for the locomotive and gave it a random tender.

Well, Bachmann has been getting their quality control up for a while now. I’ve bought a bunch of newer Bachmann products and compared them to some older Bachmanns from the 1980s and there’s a clear difference in quality. The newer Bachmanns have far better quality and performance than the older ones; drawbars that actually work, can-motors instead of the cheap pancake motors they used to use, better mechanisms, and far more detail. They also have upgraded their quality on freight and passenger cars too. They now all have metal wheels, and don’t look like they’re cheaper than Tyco.

Early bachmann train set Improvements include: 1. Replace all plastic wheels w/ metal ones. 2. swap out the motor with a coreless motor (where possible) . 3. replace locomotives or diesels Axle gears with some from Northwest Shortline (they make re-powering kits and good gear sets) or another good gear maker. 4. If draw bar is straight and doesn't connect well....Bend it upwards slightly with pliers or a table vise ,to improve connection. As an example ,I have repowered ALL of my early bachmann diesels with a self powered truck set called the "Stanton Drive" , by Northwest Shortline. They are sadly not cheap, but the quality is excellent and you get your monies worth. And they are easy as heck to install, as they only require one screw and nut to mount to a floor. If your diesels don't have a floor, you can make one simply out of cut styrene sheets, glued into the shells.

Hey look! it's a Tyco set........ wait it's not?

I hate Bachmann crap, I won't even try fixing it if it breaks I'll just toss it out, I'll fix an Athearn any day

You sounded like my uncle in the first bit

I have two 90s Bachmann 4 8 4s, cbq 5601 and ataf 3781. They look identical to yours other than the livery and the tender. I wonder of the three which one is actually prototypical.

Great presentation of the Bachmann Train set🚂🚂

Waiting on a company to make an affordable accurately tooled u2g (its never going to happen)

I had one however is a easy fix just grab an extra bit of like a pipe cleaner, bend the bottom section of it, and make sure it’s the right length then when you put the tender on it, it should work fine just make sure to strip the pipe cleaner in the area where the rod connects

Should be an easy enough fix: just make a couple of shallow bends in the drawbar with some needlenose pliers. It might have a bit of trouble with negotiating 18" radius curves after that, but the industry's been moving beyond those for quite a few years, now, anyway 🙄

To be honest that is a simple fix but a fix I would rather not have to make. I’d just make a longer pin.

I under stand it should run perfect out the box but hear me out, bend the metal draw bar up a little

The only bachmann product I still buy these days is EZ track because I live with a roommate and my layout has to be disassemble-able for when I move out. I would be using kato unitrack but some of my old rivarossi locomotives like my big boy and challenger have large flanges that needs code 100 track to run properly

Me, I'd be altering the drawbar or putting a little cotter pin on the bottom to keep everything hooked up. Nothing that can't be put right with a little work, eh?

Maybe bend the drawbar so it’s higher

Im sure you can adjust the draw bar

if the drawbar is metal I would bend it to a better hight and to me the tender is to far apart from the loco.

what are your thoughts on Lionel's HO sets? because from what i've seen online, their quality has been a mixed bag at best, and inconsistent at worst. Just ask Sam's Trains across the pond.

The axles on the locomotive will break just a warning as it's a first generation locomotive, there are three generations of the overland limited set the first two are crap but the latest version is better.

A steam loco hauling cars from the modern era ? Yikes. I have two versions of the CN reefer car and the older one, from the 80's looks better than the one in this set. The newer one in the same livery also looks better and not as shiny as the one in the vid. Bachmann has improved somewhat with some pretty decent models out now compared to the 80s. My first set was a Bachmann that featured a CN f-unit, the cn reefer car, a CN gondola and a CN caboose. The paint jobs featured a matt finish with a slight shine compared to the set above. The loco though ran like crap after a few years but it was decent enough untill i could get better locos.

Buy Broadway Limited and be free from Bachman's curse.

I have tyco Bachman atlas and I enjoy running all of them

How many different versions of the overland limited did Bachmann release?

I have two bachmann sets from the mid/early 2010's, and the cars aren't that bad. But the cars here, I can see how terrible they are. Bachmann must really be letting go of quality lately.

I had the overland limited as a kid back when it first came out in the early 2000s but i dont remember it being able to smoke and i dont remember ever having any as a kid that did. Is my old age (lol im 35) getting the better or me or did later releases get that feature added to the locomotive?

The Canadian version of the overland limited train set might be worth something cause it rare, will this comment get auto deleted who knows.

Is this even a real train set from Bachmann cause I can’t find it anywhere

It's Bachmann, It's junk.

That “u2g” is just an ATSF 2900 class?

Where did you find this set

As far as H.O. Trains go, Bachman is definitely the way to go!👍

Crappy review. Skip this one.

Awful express