About to buy this set from a fellow forum member and would appreciate any feedback form any members who own and operate this set. Good, bad or otherwise.
this is the PROTO 3 Milwaukee Road 4-6-4 set with 4 passenger cars.
Videos and pics would be great.
Thanks folks
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I have the older, Proto-2 version of that locomotive. It's been a good-running, reliable engine for as long as I've had it. It's been on TV once, in a news story on our toy train museum. Detail is good; a streamliner doesn't have as many doodads as an unstreamlined steamer so there isn't as much detail on it as, say, a Mikado. The new version should have the MTH wireless tether; mine has a cable.
I don't have the MTH passenger cars; I run mine with Weaver cars, which are scale length and the correct design for that specific locomotive. The MTH set is actually modeled after the 1948 Milwaukee Road passenger cars, which were placed into service after the Hiawathas were fully dieselized. It's entirely possible that those cars were seen occasionally behind the 4-6-4, as the big steamers were available for backup if the regularly scheduled diesels weren't available, but those cars don't exactly go with the engine. Nonetheless, that set was a great deal from MTH with the set costing only $100 more than just the engine.
Here are a couple of photos.
These are not my videos but these videos I have viewed several times in trying to determine if I wanted the set or not. I saw the set at my local hobby shop last summer and passed on buying the set for wanting something else at the time. It is a nice set.
It smokes like a dream sounds and runs well. I ordered extra cars also
Thank you gents For your replies and feedback.
I pulled the trigger on this set with the extra cars from a real gentleman from this forum, Jim Bettendorf. Eagerly anticipating its arrival next week before Christmas.
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