McKeen Car photo and article in the latest Canadian Toy Train Association newsletter

I went to the website, followed the directions, and got a prompt that to view the contents of the box I had to enable third party cookies - which is going to happen when pigs fly. Third party cookies are tracking cookies from ad servers. Forget it.

Uh..based on SW H.'s comment above, this is as far as I am going, unless this gets

posted HERE on the forum.

Thanks. Worked just fine for me w/o any prompts, etc.  Downloaded a copy of the pdf that opens fine.

No problem here either.

Those who didn't get the prompt, probably don't have their browsers set to reject third-party cookies. That means that any third-party ad that appears on a web page can set a tracking cookie. I don't like the amount of tracking that goes on with the cookies I have to accept (i.e. the ones that come from the actual websites), but there's not much I can do about that because you have to accept cookies to use eBay, Amazon, etc. But by rejecting third-party cookies, at least I don't get tracking cookies from every sleazeball  who runs a Web ad. 

I was able to open the site without any prompts and eventually I found the newsletter.

I have frequently expressed the same regrets over the lack of a model of the Mckeen motor car and trailer in any scale, O scale, or tinplate. I had the MTH model on order. I've enclosed some pictures of the beautifully restored Virginia & Truckee Mckeen which I had the pleasure of riding.

Eric Hofberg

TCA, LCCA

MTH I want one.  Jim R.

I got to ride the McKeen Car at the N.S.R.M., and I am going to ride it this July Forth.  I, if you don't know, own and administer McKeenCar.com (link below) and I have a lot of information on the McKeen Cars if you have any questions.  Here are a few photos I took while I was there on the fourth in 2012.

Me as well!

James

McKeens are way past cool in my book. Gotta love the Jules Vern styling.

MTH tried, didn't get enough pre-orders and cancelled it. Try e-mailing them with your wants. Maybe they'll take another stab at it.

Bob

I want one too. Did MTH have a prototype at York just before it was cancelled?

MTH needs to do these in Tin- Plate, O Gauge and Standard Gauge.

Pat

The club hopes the website will get updated soon and will be easy to see the flyers, hard to find a volunteer to figure out how to upgrade and fix the webiste.

Anyways the point of the post was for the rail car the McKeen car looks great.

There are many that would like one.

I think the issue with MTH catalogue product announcements of new items is they might show only a few perhaps 4 different road names.

If they have to run a new mold for a new design like this I would think that it would be in their best interest to put out in  a news letter that they want to make the car and get some input from customers on what road names they would like.

Then they could perhaps put a announcement in a catalogue with potential road names if enough orders to do a paint scheme then they could run it.

I am sure many fantasy paint schemes would sell as well. Also a painted but undecorated model could have much appeal.

I am sure if they were to take this approach they would get the orders they need to cast the model.

I thought I had seen in the past at a  NMRA show an MTH booth with a mock up model.

They did a great job of that rebuild got a look at it running in a past July 4 event.

Sure looks sharp in real life.