You can say anything you want to about Mike, but I feel there are many of us old timers who were sitting around with our PW stuff either not being used or used lightly and who got back into the hobby due to the innovations/quality that his company provided.
I remember the first steam engine of his I ever saw. My son bought it and showed it to me. Just good looking and tough. No talking, DCS, speed control or fancy gizmos....just a great engine. Then the DCS came out.
I can only speak for myself, but I had owned Lionel all my life and MTH got me interested in O gauge again! I would bet I am not the only one either.
Greg
quote:Posted January 17, 2012 10:54 AM Hide Post
Okay. okay I get it...Like when Houdini was on stage he was HOUDINI - AMERICA'S FIRST SUPERHERO....but when he went out to have a lager with the guys he was just..... houdini??
rat
A Houdini boxcar? Rat, what are you smoking?
quote:Originally posted by gg1man:quote:Originally posted by John Pignatelli:
I asked Grandpappy why he left Italia, he said" Nota noffa good tomato to make good gravy. Idiot Mussolini make the trains run on time but they still looka like C%^&"
Hi John, my cousin went to Italy many years ago. When he visited our two mothers home town he was so overwlemed by the beauty of the place he had to call home to ask his Mom one simple question. "Mom how could you ever leave this beautiful place to go live in South West Philadelphia"? Aunt Mary's answer was plain and to the point,"Eh, you can't eat scenery".
Hunger is a great motivation to move.
Sounds like that was from "Local Hero".
quote:Originally posted by Charlienassau:quote:Posted January 17, 2012 10:54 AM Hide Post
Okay. okay I get it...Like when Houdini was on stage he was HOUDINI - AMERICA'S FIRST SUPERHERO....but when he went out to have a lager with the guys he was just..... houdini??
rat
A Houdini boxcar? Rat, what are you smoking?
smoking??
Go get 'em Rat.
Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! Oh ye of little faith!
Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! Oh ye of little faith!
quote:Originally posted by yardlet6:quote:Originally posted by gg1man:quote:Originally posted by John Pignatelli:
I asked Grandpappy why he left Italia, he said" Nota noffa good tomato to make good gravy. Idiot Mussolini make the trains run on time but they still looka like C%^&"
Hi John, my cousin went to Italy many years ago. When he visited our two mothers home town he was so overwlemed by the beauty of the place he had to call home to ask his Mom one simple question. "Mom how could you ever leave this beautiful place to go live in South West Philadelphia"? Aunt Mary's answer was plain and to the point,"Eh, you can't eat scenery".
Hunger is a great motivation to move.
Sounds like that was from "Local Hero".
I don't get it what's Local Hero?
Ha, what a great place the internet is. I just did a search on "Local Hero" and found a flic from 1983, British made, with Burt Lancaster. Was that line in the movie? The time frame is about right for when she said it. Who knows maybe she got the line from the movies, but I remember her saying it.
quote:Originally posted by TrainPop:
Mario;
I think you'll find that some of the angst against Mike Wolf still stems from the law suit against Lionel years ago. The purists were appalled that anyone would contemplate such an act, let alone go through with it.
No matter what you say, there are still some that will have "a stone in their shoe" about MW.
Hi Chuck, yea I think your spot on. I don't understand why some folks can't get over what was just a business transaction to both MTH and Lionel. Come on guys their in business with each other now. Lionel is a toy maker not a religion!
Did someone say, he said "I will make the NY Giants set and superbowl cars"?
Not saying he said it, but someine might have thought he said it.
Not saying he said it, but someine might have thought he said it.
quote:Originally posted by Dave Allen:
I also think Mike has done more for O gauge than anyone else I can think of in recent history. The "only make US trains" bunch needs to realize that Mike's company foray into HO and European markets is not only good for HO and European train fans but is of course good for MTH and might just be the savior of US models being made. In other words, what's good for MTH will be good for all O gauge modelers. And don't forget, it's reported that the first Euro model Mike produced, the French Chapelon, has been MTH's best seller, ever.
Mike Wolf's decision to make a line of European style trains will be seen as one of the smartest marketing moves ever made by a model railroading supplier.
quote:Originally posted by coloradohirailer:
Rats!! No hint as to when the McKeen car will wash ashore, either?
THAT sure took new tooling...all kinds of oddball branch lines ran
those, as well as the UP, which "Red" McKeen conned into associating with him. Way ahead of their time in styling, but, then
state of the art internal combustion engineering was not advanced
enough, and reliability was not their thing. We can presume MTH's
model will run a lot better than the prototype.
Anybody know the state of the one the Nevada RR Museum was
restoring? It was on the back of their lot when I visited years ago. This was the V&T one. The museum people asked me if I
knew what happened to the one that ran on the short line near
Toledo, Ohio, and had been turned into a diner. I thought I read
that one had burned. True?? Is the V&T one at the Nevada RR
Museum the ONLY surviving McKeen?
I think I heard that a McKeen was sitting on a military base in Alaska along with other old RR equipment. Sorry that I don't have any more on it.
John
