Fall 2019 York and Catalog release - Any word on new items?

They were finishing it up last week. As far as knowing what is in it; you won't hear leaks. A few years ago I was at MTH and passed by a chrome 400E set sitting in the floor between Andy's office and Rich's office. "Is that for the new tinplate catalog." The reply was  " I don't see anything." They may show you the front cover but beyond that they will keep it a secret.

Scott Smith

Well I see a premier big boy on the cover. Maybe we’ll see some newly cataloged premier steam for the first time in over 3 years. I’m Looking forward to it regardless. 

M J Breen posted:

Well I see a premier big boy on the cover. Maybe we’ll see some newly cataloged premier steam for the first time in over 3 years. I’m Looking forward to it regardless. 

Where did you see the cover with the BB?  Or is that wishful thinking on your end?  I myself have no idea of what I would want.  I guess the pictures will have to grab me.

I want a rerun of the R1 and BMT Standard subway sets. 

Mth steamers.... I would love some premier PRR 2-10-0’s with long & short tenders and the whistle steam effect. 

New! Are you joking, from MTH  I don't think so......more like what was in the last Lionel catalog.

They still have Big Boy's in stock from there last run!!  It won't surprise me if there in the new catalog, but something new, like in new tooling....don't hold your breath.

Sorry to say 

The one confirmation is UP 1111, which was announced a couple of weeks ago in a "sneak peek" from MTH. I already have my order in.

Bryant Dunivan 111417 posted:

M J Breen posted:

Well I see a premier big boy on the cover. Maybe we’ll see some newly cataloged premier steam for the first time in over 3 years. I’m Looking forward to it regardless. 

Where did you see the cover with the BB?  Or is that wishful thinking on your end?  I myself have no idea of what I would want.  I guess the pictures will have to grab me.

Subscribe to the MTH O-gauge email newsletter.  The 2020 v1 cover was there in the Sept 25, 2019 edition.

"September 25, 2019 - M.T.H. mailing list subscribers, M.T.H. Railroaders Club members (MTHRRC) and any others attending the 2019 Fall TCA York Meet in York, Pennsylvania can avoid the wait for the U.S. Postal Service by picking up the 2020 Volume 1 Premier & RailKing catalog and a selection of other M.T.H. previously printed materials beginning Thursday, October 17th at 12:00 noon."

Trainlover9943 posted:

I want a rerun of the R1 and BMT Standard subway sets. 

Same here, I also want to see the rail king r21’s issued again. We haven’t seen those since 2000. 

Pullman green/ silver & blue & anti-graffiti white

Please Please  Please  Please  Please  Please  Please Please Please Please 

There could be Golden Spike 4-4-0s in the Premier Line.

RidgeRunner posted:

Bryant Dunivan 111417 posted:

M J Breen posted:

Well I see a premier big boy on the cover. Maybe we’ll see some newly cataloged premier steam for the first time in over 3 years. I’m Looking forward to it regardless. 

Where did you see the cover with the BB?  Or is that wishful thinking on your end?  I myself have no idea of what I would want.  I guess the pictures will have to grab me.

Subscribe to the MTH O-gauge email newsletter.  The 2020 v1 cover was there in the Sept 25, 2019 edition.

"September 25, 2019 - M.T.H. mailing list subscribers, M.T.H. Railroaders Club members (MTHRRC) and any others attending the 2019 Fall TCA York Meet in York, Pennsylvania can avoid the wait for the U.S. Postal Service by picking up the 2020 Volume 1 Premier & RailKing catalog and a selection of other M.T.H. previously printed materials beginning Thursday, October 17th at 12:00 noon."

 

Oh Boy, another Big Boy, Really.  I see a ton of pre-orders there.  I would be really surprised.  But.....

Well, I finally found, and purchased  a Ps 2 Railking B&O Hudson after years of looking, so I they can release it in PS3 now.

Aliquippa & Southern posted:

Please Please  Please  Please  Please  Please  Please Please Please Please 

 

I second this!

Bill

Ho hum... Another MTH catalog and another round of regurgitating familiar models with different paint schemes and/or reissues in PS3. Electronics.

Forget that 70t niche market. MTH is better off investing in ALCo C636, C424/C425 and the T6 diesels  Or the GE U boats or B boats.

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Ho hum... Another MTH catalog and another round of regurgitating familiar models with different paint schemes and/or reissues in PS3. Electronics.

The glass is always half empty for some.

more CN and CP locomotives and some Wabash will get my $  Also a DT&I.

😎

Harold

I find it really hard to believe the market is there for MORE Big Boys. I'm sure there is a boost in sales thanks to the real one running on the UP but it seems like every catalog for the past 2 years from MTH has had Big Boys in both Railking and Premier. Doubt forget the various renditions offered by Lionel lately. Maybe I'm wrong and there is a market but I kinda doubt it....

....I'm REALLY hoping for a bit of a resurgence in Premier steam. There is a LOT of stuff that hasn't been done since the PS2 5-volt board days. The D16 4-4-0, DD1 Electrics, and others haven't been done in at least a decade or more. I'll preorder both. I want them! The Premier steam end of the catalog has just been copied and pasted over and over and over.

J 611 posted:

SJC posted:

The Premier steam end of the catalog has just been copied and pasted over and over and over.

I think your last sentence nails the situation. They've got stuff they are trying to unload (bigboys.) And the market is saturated with stuff. MTH probably doesn't see any ROI for new Premier steam at the moment. I tend to agree.  

 

 

It would not make sense to produce more when you have a glut.  I could only seeing them offered with new markings if they changed the existing inventory to the new markings.  That does not make sense either.  Hopefully there will be some nice surprises.  Haven't seen a WOW! in a while.

I thought Lionel was doing something here, in the Hew Hess Hay (what a radical thought!), with some kind of hybrid model...but, and l hope l remember this wrong, it was not a new and different prototype, as some of us have been whining for, for a decade or more.  But  it might  lead to more variety. I remember when Kline was  dumping "stuff" (and sacriligiously generating new prototypes), l heard a dealer complaining about too much "stuff" THEN! when "stuff" was already too much recycling the same few recycles.  I have long since pushed all that recycling to the curb, to await the garbage truck, and want something new and different. It is like the Model T built from 1908 through 1927...19 years of the same thing!  Except then there were dozens of other auto makes and choices ( l know; our aging demographics won't support it). Frustrating...

I also hope they make the remaining business cars and other add-on cars for the 2019 Premier CP Holiday Train.

I would love to see MTH do the Amtrak E-60 electric locomotive which they were going to do back in 2000 but was canceled. Would be nice to see MTH produce this locomotive.

Bob Dixey posted:

I would love to see MTH do the Amtrak E-60 electric locomotive which they were going to do back in 2000 but was canceled. Would be nice to see MTH produce this locomotive.

Bob, I’ve been leaning on Scott Mann from Sunset Models for some time now to produce the engine. With their scale amfleet cars being offered its a logical pairing. 

If enough folks show interest in the project it would be a go, so I ask you please reach out to him, along with anyone else who would like to see one, it can happen.  It would be a plastic, not a brass model. 

Can't wait for this catalog!

Rumor has it that there are 2 newly tooled subways, 4 Newley tooled diesels, and 6 newly tooled steamers and from now on all steamers have whistle steam and a speaker in the boiler!!

When does it go on line? Is it Tuesday or Wednesday?

Dj'sOgaugetrains posted:

Rumor has it that there are 2 newly tooled subways, 4 Newley tooled diesels, and 6 newly tooled steamers and from now on all steamers have whistle steam and a speaker in the boiler!!

Oh I’ll believe that when me s**t turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet! 

It’s been about 6 years since MTH cataloged a New Haven EP-5s.........since my scale KLine EP-5 tried to fly (the bookcase it was on collapsed and a truck shattered), I could use a new one........

Peter

M J Breen posted:

Dj'sOgaugetrains posted:

Rumor has it that there are 2 newly tooled subways, 4 Newley tooled diesels, and 6 newly tooled steamers and from now on all steamers have whistle steam and a speaker in the boiler!!

Oh I’ll believe that when me s**t turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet! 

Hehe...............

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Ho hum... Another MTH catalog and another round of regurgitating familiar models with different paint schemes and/or reissues in PS3. Electronics.

Yup just like Lionel catalogs

I'd love to see a re-issue of the weed sprayer set in new road names...

I'd like to see flatcars with modern military equipment. Also in the late 90's/early 2000's they made 6 car mixed freight sets. I'd like to see them make them again.

Bill

Those of us who have been in the hobby for decades and who remember the years before the 1990s or so generally recognize how very lucky we are with the genuine wealth of "stuff" available today. I look forward to every new catalog, and invariably find something I like and want to have. I'm just glad these guys are still around today to serve this great hobby.

Bryant Dunivan 111417 posted:

Oh Boy, another Big Boy, Really.  I see a ton of pre-orders there.  I would be really surprised.  But.....

I hope they do a better job with the sound file than the 2017 Premier Big Boy, that whistle sounds like a wounded cow, and certainly nothing like the real Big Boy whistle!

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Bryant Dunivan 111417 posted:

Oh Boy, another Big Boy, Really.  I see a ton of pre-orders there.  I would be really surprised.  But.....

I hope they do a better job with the sound file than the 2017 Premier Big Boy, that whistle sounds like a wounded cow, and certainly nothing like the real Big Boy whistle!

It's Western Maryland 734's whistle from 2006.

I don't know what whistle it is, but I know it doesn't sound anything like a Big Boy.