I Can't Believe MTH Hasn't Made....

Premier

Milwaukee Road SD40-2 (hold the ditch lights)

Southern Pacific SD40T-2 (Roman Lettering) (no ditch lights please)

Rio Grande SD40T-2 (no ditch lights)

Cotton Belt SD40T-2 (no ditch lights)

RailKing

E7

E9

A reliable track activating device for accessories such as crossing gates.

A lock on with a spike suppression device (TVS) for conventional operators. Should be included in all starter sets. Boards in engines are needlessly stressed out and fail prematurely.

A quality speaker and sound system comparable to that of Railsounds 4 or 5.

Dale H

A decent C30-7 (upgrade the early Premier/ RK Scale model) or U36C, also a B23-7, B30-7 or B36-7

86 foot high cube boxcar.

65 foot Gondola.

IMHO - The U25B was a WASTE, when Weaver already has one, the U30C was also a Waste since Lionel has already done them. The SD24?  Somebody jumped the gun on these - Not a popular locomotive.  Might as well make an SF30C, GP40X or  CF7.

Southern Pacific SD45, Come on Already!!!  It seems Red/ Gray SP schemes are not "Old" enough for MTH to do.

I think MTH did an ATSF SD45 in Kodachrome in the early days. I'd like to see a better C30-7. Not holding by breath for an 86-foot Excess-Height box car as (for some reason) MTH seems to have an aversion for cars longer than 70 scale feet.

S Gauge....just playing...

High nose sd40s sd40-2s gp38 gp40 -2s

Scott

I'm all for a Southern Pacific SD45, but if they're gonna do it then it needs to have the road-specific configurations before I'd jump on it.  (Red gyralite with L-shaped windshield for the late '60s-early 80's era, then the mid-80s- onward without the red gyralite and L-shaped windshield.  In other words, the tooling would have to be as modular as their SD45T-2.  The other thing they'd have to do is offer the model either with the standard wheel brake or the ratchet-style handbrake since this was done on the SD45 as well for various roads.

Premier

Burlington Northern SD 40-2

Burlington Northern E8

Amtrak Genesis in 40th Anniversary Schemes

Modern container well cars!!!!!

In both semi-scale (Rail King) and scale (Premier) versions with rotating blade and extra powerful smoke fans to simulate snow throwing.

Steam engines

Oh you mean ever?

Steam engines

B&O 4-8-2 T3 

B&O 2-8-8-0 Class EL

B&O 2-8-8-4 EM1

Union Railroad 0-6-0 (oversized 0-6-0s)

Union Railroad 0-10-2

Cars

Union Railroad gondolas

Strange given the support and attention MTH gives and gets from Pittsburgh the B&O looks ignored besides some Mikes and 0-6-0s in steam

As small as the Proto-3 hardware is, I'd be willing to bet it's going to end up in some S Scale locomotives when the upgrade kits come out.

I thought about that a few minutes after I posted. Plus they've been doing some of the original Premier paint schemes in the "ScaleKing" line.

Nooooooooo!!

Yes!

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SW1200RS just because I used to rebuild them. Or a GE 100 ton center cab with siderods, we had one of these at the shop.

Also a C32-8 or C39-8 humpback.

Baldwin AS-16 (not AS-616 which they have made) in PRSL!  Credit card standing by.

I never seemed to understand why MTH would make LIRR F7s in an ABA set when these engines were used solely as power packs.  I thought they would have made a push pull set with a powered GP38 and a dummy F7 or PA.  The GP38 in the blue/white wave scheme.

Sunrise

A N&W Jawn Henry!!

A N&W 4-8-0

An N&W Bicentennial locomotive 1776 

A standard gauge 4-4-0 General

Scott Smith

N-gauge

And once again I'll give my standard answer: GE44 Ton (scale)

I've just agreed with Dave. A scale 44 tonner, please.

As they say in eastern Kentucky, "I ain't buyin' nair'n dizzles".

Coming home, as usual lately, almost empty handed from York.....(like shopping for

autos from Detroit "They don't make what I will buy")  Hey..I'm not picky about manufacturers...Third Rail, WBB, Lionel, others on the fringe doing the Civil War locos, or even MTH ?...  Build it and I will come.

1. The mythical McKeen car..

2. A MODEL gas electric (a good model, not generic), Brill, GE, Edwards?....(yes,  

   Third Rail offers a PENNSYLVANIA specific one..I don't model the Pennsy)

3. Mack, Sykes, other railbus in three rail, good model, not generic (Mack is probably

    most familiar to the largest market)

4. Small, 20-40 ton two-truck geared logging locos, Heislers (preferred by me) but  

    Climax..I think there is now a Shay from Lionel...

5. A whole lot of other stuff that has been offered, often repeatedly,  in HO, and  

    sometimes in old O scale brass, such as recently mentioned International and Ken

    Kidder,since WWII, but heck, it took FOREVER to get freight engines like Mikados 

    and Consolidations, other engines such as Ten Wheelers, 4-8-2's, offered in three

    rail..... (a lot of this may have come from a rejuvenation of interest in three rail, 

    and the expansion of that interest into a larger population, and beyond historical   

    collecting..oh, well, if nothing new is interesting, there is always historical

    collecting and we can concentrate on that at York)

    But...it is sounding like the sources for these may be in disarray, and why none of

    us are getting our druthers...(not to mention the economy, or because of the

    economy?)

"CP RAIL"  FP7's, or F7's or F3's   the ones with the multimark and stripes on the nose,......... like the new MTH E8's in multi mark. They have never ever been done in "O" gauge. We have enough versions in the maroon,grey and gold already. Would go nicely with the Golden Gate Multi Mark Canadian set That is coming in the fall. !!!
Please..................Cheers

 1. Mckeen Motor Car and trailer- cancelled boo ho!

 2. 50 ton center cab diesel with side rods

 3. a saddle-tank steam locomotive and it doesn't need to be just an 0-4-0 docksider  although that would also be nice with PS-3.

Eric Hofberg

TCA, LCCA

Lionel made this one recently.

John

I thought that 3rd rail was doing both or at least taking reservations on the latter?

How about a really accurate scale D16sb or an E1?

I thought that 3rd rail was doing both or at least taking reservations on the latter?

3rd Rail is offering it. However I would prefer Proto2 and diecast for the 4-8-0 and plastic (like the C&O Turbine) rather than brass. Also the $1900.00 price tag from 3rd Rail is a little steep.

Scott Smith

It's only money; sell off a few percent of your current inventory and you should have enough,

A PRR E2b:

Regarding the MNS box cars.

There could be MNS 40' Box Cars made for the Premier line.

MTH made a limited run of the Minneapolis & Northfield Thrall Car ALL DOOR Box Cars, but what they need to offer now are new road numbers of the MNS ALL DOOR Box Cars in 6-Car Sets. MNS had 100 Thrall ALL DOOR box cars, but they in the past year they were rounded up and scrapped.

Atlas O recently produced the MNS 50'-6' ACF Box Cars in the TrainMan Line, so MTH has to make the other MNS box cars styles, then get offer their version in the Premier line.

Atlas O had made the deep blue MNS Evans 53' Box cars, but those were a very limited production. MTH has to offer the MNS Evans 53' box cars because everybody could not get the Atlas O version.

They can catalog the Grand Trunk Western ACF Center Flow 3-Bay Covered Hopper, after the GTW ex-DTS ACF Center Flow 2-Bay Hoppers are in production.

What has not been done is a Premier line Chicago & North Western Falcon Service train series with the C&NW SD40-2 diesel and two 6-Car sets of Trailer Train Flat Cars with CNWZ 40' Trailers all with the Falcon Service graphics. The totally correct graphics this time.

Andrew

Both Lionel and MTH have passed on making the Burlington Northern Modern Box Cars to accompany the matching locomotives.

Andrew 

The Milwaukee Road, Soo Line, and Gulf, Mobile & Ohio GP30 diesel with Alco Trucks need to be produced in the same production run.

Andrew

Falcon Service

Specifically needs to be produced: 

the RailKing P-S Hy-Cube Box Car in the authentic 1967-1968 graphics for:

The Milwaukee Road

ILLINIOS CENTRAL

The PS-2-CD 4427 High-Sided 3-Bay Hoppers:

ROCK ISLAND 1965-1975 era

D&RGW Rio Grande light gray body in the exact road numbers for these cars.

Missouri Pacific

Andrew

I vote for switchers:

-GE 44 or 55 ton switcher

-GE Steeplecab

-saddletank engine

SPSF was wrong about the MTH offering the U30C because Lionel has not offered as many roadnames and as many road numbers as MTH has produced. Lionel has even cancelled the Rock Island and Missouri Pacific U30C production runs. The only way to get the paint schemes and road number somebody wants on a Lionel U30C is to get an undecorated U30C diesel to apply custom paint and decals.

Could MTH put Digital Command System boards in the Non-Motorized models of the U30C that were equipped with lights, smoke, and remotely operated couplers?

Andrew

 More modern G gauge diesels!!! Aces, SDs, GPs, AC6000, even an AC4400.

 Hello! You left me with a couple of Dashes?? Make them, they will sell. Well, I'll buy a couple anyways.

 ...and their MP15 railking switchers should have 3/2 trucks on them and/or be premier. The detailing looks that good to me. I should not have to drill and machine a new diesel to run it 2 rail. I will if I have to. Joe