I hope the upcoming MTH catalog has....

A rerun of the Bantam Turbine w/PS3  and a CPR Jubilee 4-4-4 in Railking

1. Some new Euro steam era freight cars to go with the DR/DB 2-10-0 (i.e. new designs, not just more paint variations on the 4-wheel boxcars and reefers). 

2. An Evans Auto-Loader with six period-correct, 1/48 scale automobiles. 

3. A Milwaukee Road peekaboo gondola. 

I would love:

 

Premier NYO&W anything... Coal Hoppers and Transition era small steam being highest on my list.

 

Also... single A unit F3's 501-503 or more NW2's

SP diesels, especially an SD-40 tunnel motor. Would happily take it in Cotton Belt as well.

SP bay window caboose.

+1 on modern SP freight cars.

 

I'm still relatively new to O scale - is it just my imagination, or is modern SP kind of ignored? (Lionel tank train aside, of course.)

 

Fred

Premier UP Big Boys in the same roadnumbers as Lionel's VL versions except offer them in the later modified configuration without the exposed fin type cooling pipes?  

Premier CNW SD40-2

Re-tooled Premier GP30 ATSF or CNW (just not at the same time)

Premier CNW USRA Pacific

Re-issue the Premier UP Heritage Units w/Proto-3

More ScaleTrax items

 

       
       


MTH has been offering the SD45T-2 in SP & Cotton Belt liveries as well as post UP merger & other roads that bought them from UP.  A much more accurate model than Lionel's SD40T-2.

If I recall correctly they will also offer their newly-tooled scale FM Train Master in SP bloody nose scheme so you can relive the past when they pullef commuter trains up there where you live (just need some accurate bi-level commuter cars to go with it).

They also came out with a very good Railking Scale MP15ac in SP livery even with prototype-specific details such as the number boards above the cab & the red gyralites.

ATSF SD45-2

 

 

Great info. Thanks!

 

Fred

Here are a few more:

 

GP30's with Alco trucks as owned by Milwaukee Road, Soo Line, and GM&O. which traded in RS-3's and kept the trucks.

 

6-car WWII military flatcar sets, not just with a Sherman tank on each flatcar, but a variety - a tank, a flamethrower tank, a half-track, a self-propelled artillery piece, a pair of deuce and a halfs, a pair of jeeps or a jeep and commo trailer, etc. Let's have them with Pacific theater markings and on flatcars marked for Western roads - SP, Milwaukee, WP, NP, etc. (UP has already been done). 

 

More flatcars without loads, maybe even in four- or six-car sets. Preferably in Milwaukee Road, among others.

BNSF Heritage grain hoppers

New PCC Trolleys.

 

And an O Gauge tinplate Lionel Corporation Celebration Caboose to go with this...

 

Come on MTH, it's time.

 

Premier New Haven I5. Like the one they didn't make a few years ago. And I'm pretty sure they're not going to make it now.

 

Gerry

 

All Premier:

Boston and Maine/Maine Central/Portland Terminal 44 tonner

Maine Central F3s

Central Vermont GP9s

Boston and Maine 10 wheeler

 

This topic is too late for getting a message to Mike Wolf, but maybe MTH will take it under consideration for the future. My wishes are for Rail King steam and trolley cars:

1. Osgood Bradley 12-ench open trolley in 3rd Avenue Railway and Connecticut liveries;

2. Existing Pennsy H Class 2-8-0 in Long Island Rail Road livery;

3. Long Island Rail Road G5s with Sunrise Special livery & standard livery;

4. Rugged Rails 027 heavyweight passenger cars in Long Island Rail Road ligth gray & white livery of 1950;

5. A heavy interurban car of wood construction in New York & North Shore Traction livery.

I think many of us would like to see this...

 

 

 

Some of the following are wishful thinking because they will require new tooling, but I can dream about them to being offered as Premier engines in the catalog...

 

Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 630

Southern Railway Mikado, 4501 in Black

 

Southern 610, 2-10-4

 

I would like to see a reissue of this Premier Southern 0-4-0 switcher as I have have not been able to find one...

 

-NYC Jade green E8s

- NYC Niagara

- NYC Mohawk

- General Motors Train of Tomorrow

-Railking PRR s1

- IC City of Miami

- Pan Am boxcars

- #7 subway with State Names.. ( state set??)

- 1964 Worlds Fair Commemorative boxcars

- Houdini Lager Boxcar

- 44 tonner

- tinplate work caboose

- NYC Xplorer

RailKing (3-pak) or Premier (6-pak) uni-body tankers as crude-oil unit trains. Simple decoration, no new tooling needed, can repeat in multiple catalogs with different road numbers/reporting marks. Suggest an Airslide or PS-2 hopper as a buffer car.

 

(puts envelope to turban)

--Amtrak 40th Anniversary train. We have the locomotives, all we need are the Amfleet food-service car, Heritage sleeper and baggage cars.

 

(wishful thinking mode)

--Viewliners. Sleeper/Sleeper and Sleeper/Diner 2-packs. No need for 4-car sets--these would serve as add-ons to existing Amtrak sets, and be completely prototypical.

 

--Amfleet II. The long-distance version with larger windows and doors at one end of the car only. Never before made in 'O'

 

---PCJ

Frisco GP38-2

 

 

A STANDARD GAUGE CNJ CAMELBACK.

 

Premier CNW USRA Pacific

 

ANY Chicago Great Western Steam

CB&Q Hudson, 4000 with or/and without the shroud. How about the complete Denver Zephyr set as well.  Some Colorado & Southern steam, such as the USRA 2-8-2 #805. And then there is the Great Northern/Northern Pacific/CB&Q 2-6-6-2 

omg....my eyes would glaze over if I found any of these inside the pages of the next MTH catalog.  (By the way, I prefer not to think of it as "foaming."  I prefer the term "unbridled enthusiasm.")  

 

- Mike

 

 

 

 

Early on, MTH earned a reputation for releasing models of unusual prototypes including numerous electric classes, the AGEIR boxcab diesel and PRR's Lima built transfer unit to name just a few. Staying with the theme of the rare and unusual, I'd like to see a model of the New York Central DES-3 tri-power locomotive.

 

Bob

 

 

 

I would really like some more Railking Scale diesels in Southeastern roadnames like SAL, ACL, SCL, SBD, CSX, Florida Central and FEC.  Also more Railking freight equipment in those roadnames would be nice too.  

I also would like more modern industrial buildings like these feed silos.  

Norfolk Southern Gevo- Doesn't matter if its the ES40DC or the ES44AC. Maybe the BNSF ES44DC with the yellow swoosh logo, even though there was only one, I'd like to see multiple cab#'s. More modern unit trains, especially flatcars with military loads. 

 

Bill

McKeen Motor Car & Trailer in any gauge, scale, tinplate or both!

 

Eric Hofberg

TCA, LCCA

 Yes, I completely agree!  There is a reason why MTH NYO&W items are hard to find, even at York!

 

I am all in for NYO&W stuff!  Realistic stuff that is, no GG1's or Big Boys with NYO&W markings on them.

 

All Premiere:

LIRR H-10s

LIRR G5 #28 that was originally cataloged before they changed it to #39

PRR Decapod with long or short tender

NYC J1e Hudson with PT tender and scullen disc drivers

reissue of Strasburg Woodside coaches

I'm happy about the UP FEF. They haven't made a premier one since 2002. Plus I could use another pennsy engine.

Ralph

I'll double up on the Mixed load Military flatcars.

I need more stuff for my Military train, it's only 23 cars right now.

My big Boy can pull a lot more than that.

Premier Southern 630 (that will run on O-54)

Railking Imperial DM&IR Yellowstone