From the latest MTH blurb " For 2022, the SW1200 returns to the RailKing lineup in four prototypical short line schemes. "
Does the Marburger Farm Dairy SW1200 really exist? Does anybody have photos?
Great looking engine!
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Google comes up with nothing. If it existed I'm sure there'd be a photo somewhere. Maps and satellite photos don't even show tracks anywhere near or on the farm.
File this under Fantasy Island Locomotive Works...
Rusty
Evan City, PA. There are tracks, Evan City. There is a good sized milk processing plant, and a dairy farm. Most traffic is via large trucks. Some of these smaller processors are niche operators, (Organic).
Evans City, Pa is on the Buffalo and Pittsburg RR. https://www.gwrr.com/bprr/ which is a pretty large shortline.
If it were smaller, I could picture Marburger Dairy going to the local railroad and offering to foot the bill for a paint job, charging it off to advertising, ( a moving billboard ) Still looks great! 
@JET posted:From the latest MTH blurb " For 2022, the SW1200 returns to the RailKing lineup in four prototypical short line schemes. "
Does the Marburger Farm Dairy SW1200 really exist? Does anybody have photos?
Without the link we don'tknow the context. Are there 4 prototypical short line schemes besides this one? MTH sure has produced a lot of items with that name.
@BobbyD posted:Without the link we don'tknow the context. Are there 4 prototypical short line schemes besides this one?
It's in the slideshow at the top of the page. Such notable shortlines as the PRR and SP
@JET posted:Evans City, Pa is on the Buffalo and Pittsburg RR. https://www.gwrr.com/bprr/ which is a pretty large shortline.
If it were smaller, I could picture Marburger Dairy going to the local railroad and offering to foot the bill for a paint job, charging it off to advertising, ( a moving billboard ) Still looks great!
A wrap maybe?
@JET posted:It's in the slideshow at the top of the page. Such notable shortlines as the PRR and SP
All I get from that is this:
I searched and for this the text appears to be from 2018.
Common guys, don't have a cow.
@JET posted:Evans City, Pa is on the Buffalo and Pittsburg RR. https://www.gwrr.com/bprr/ which is a pretty large shortline.
If it were smaller, I could picture Marburger Dairy going to the local railroad and offering to foot the bill for a paint job, charging it off to advertising, ( a moving billboard ) Still looks great!
Don't you mean a moo-ving billboard?
Searching by the "Roadname" on the MTH sites shows that over the years, MTH have produced in Marburger scheme 7 Railking Cars, a Caboose (same paint scheme as the SW1200), and a Barn with a green roof and the Marburger Farm logo. The farm itself appears to have won some national award for dairy products in the recent years. Hay, guess that utterly fantastic if you're a Marburger fan, so don't be a cow-erd, sign up for one and be part of the herd. I'll let someone else milk the butter and bull puns. :-)
Maybe C.T. McCormick Hardware had this made. They are a MTH dealer and only about 6 miles from from the dairy. If they did, great idea.
@jim sutter posted:Maybe C.T. McCormick Hardware had this made. They are a MTH dealer and only about 6 miles from from the dairy. If they did, great idea.
I guess that's possible, but special production usually has the sellers name with the listings, so you can search McCormick at MTH and find their two MP-15's https://www.mthtrains.com/30-20753-1 and https://www.mthtrains.com/30-20584-1. Maybe MTH decided to make it a general release for some reason.
Artistic license for a Chick-Fil-A eat more chicken locomotive? LOL
Nice, Chick-Fil-A reference. MTH has made 6 Railking cars, an Eat-Mor-Beef billboard, GP-9 locomotive and caboose in the Chick-Fil-A "roadname". Put both together and you have your consist to run at your BBQ!!! haha. Now for the philosophers, which one goes first?
@dkdkrd posted:Cud be.
Holy Gateway! It's udderly cool!
Nice chew-chew!
Hard to tip top that!
As a perennial purveyor of puns, you have made my day!!!
Several years ago The Marburger Dairy had MTH make a Rail-King reefer. Maybe they had these diesels made also. If they did, smart move.
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