Besides mth and williams, does any other company make this engine? How is the mth version?
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The williams version is too short to be scale, it also just looks "off" proportioned when compared to the real thing. It also appears to be based on the original P40 (I say based, because I never bothered to actually analyze it closely), but the eyebrow strobes and marker light were only on the P40's, as delivered, and they were extremely short lived because the strobes blinded the crew in the cab. So even if you overlooked the fact that its too short, the only correct way it could be painted is the fade stripe 800 series.
The MTH version is a P42 (no eyebrow strobes, no window in the rear end. Its not a bad model, but the tooling could use a bit of a detail upgrade. Not a bad effort, but it lacks the separately applied truck detailing and other bits of some of the more recently tooled efforts. All the screening is metal and see through, I'm not a huge fan of the way they did the headlights, but its easily fixed with direct mount bulbs if you wanted to.
No one has done an O model with the newer style removable fiberglass nose cone and open headlight notch.
Sound wise, the new PS3 models are good, they got the horn correct. The 5V PS2 files are pretty good as well, the 3V files are terrible. I got MTH to up convert a 5V file to 3V, so I could load the file with a semi-decent horn into a 3V upgrade kit (the horn in the 3V files sounds electronically generated, not recorded from an actual locomotive).
Boilermaker1 any chance you could send me that sound file???
jwpcfv (at) msn.com
It's on mth's website. Look up the 3v upgrade file for 20-2230-1
You first click the Service link on the home page, then enter the model number in the right hand search box. That will take you to the page with the 3V download.
