MTHRRC Boxcar

The 2017 car was a blue and yellow C&O steel rebuilt boxcar.

The 2018 car is a Columbia Soups woodside reefer.

Rusty

So here's the question; Has anyone seen their C&O boxcar yet?

Quick Casey posted:

So here's the question; Has anyone seen their C&O boxcar yet?

Just a suggestion that you contact MTH Customer Service and see if they have your new address.

I got mine today. Happy!

Yes, the one Quick Casey describes from 2016 in the first line of his post.

Yes.  I just found the 2016 Long Island boxcar and the 2017 C&O boxcar in the mailbox today.

Okay, so the C&Os are out. I must have not joined for 25017.  Thanks for the pictures.

Quick Casey posted:

Okay, so the C&Os are out. I must have not joined for 25017.  Thanks for the pictures.

25017?  Wow!

You wouldn't happen to have one of these in your garage by any chance...

Rusty

Received my 2016 and 2017 cars in today's mail (6/19/18)

I was told the 2018 car would be available in July....My current membership is good until 7/23/18. Don't know if I'm "due" a 2018 Columbia car or not...

I received my 2016 and 2017 cars at the same time.

--Rocco--

Reading the above conversation makes me realize how far behind I am in understanding the SHS to MTH transation. I am not aware that MTH sells "memberships" nor have I purchased any MTH S product since SHS sold the business. If the first two "annual" cars have been Eastern railroads LI and C&O, then I'm not particularly interested. My primary S scale activity at present is converting SHS, AM and SSA rolling stock to various Mexican roadnames of the 1976-82 era, before the Sureste, Pacifico, Chihuahua-Pacific, Sonora-Baja California and NdeM all merged into the FNM. I still have a couple of dozen NdeM boxcars produced by SHS in 2004. They are available at the original SHS price of $40, despite one reportedly selling for $100 on Ebay. I will bring a number of these to Fall S Fest in Illinois in November. I've already picked up mt Amtrak tickets for that trip.

Gil in Oregon posted:

Reading the above conversation makes me realize how far behind I am in understanding the SHS to MTH transation. I am not aware that MTH sells "memberships" nor have I purchased any MTH S product since SHS sold the business. If the first two "annual" cars have been Eastern railroads LI and C&O, then I'm not particularly interested.

MTH began the "Club" in 1999 and has been offering club cars since, beginning in 3-rail O and later expanding it into the other product lines.

Don't worry about being behind about the transition.  It's been going poorly (to be polite about it.)  You haven't missed anything.

Since there's only been one S catalog in 2013, the only way one would know about club cars are either here or if one picked up one of the other MTH catalogs.  MTH S gets very little buzz on the other discussion boards from what I can determine.

The first S club car was sorta "western," a gold DM&IR ore car in 2014:

It's prototype paint job has been unverifiable, but it actually looks better in real life and is none-the-less an oddly attractive car.

Rusty