MTH 2017 Volume 2 Catalog

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I really couldn't care less.   I am NOT singling out MTH.

• I feel the same way about Lionel and Atlas.  I will not buy another product from ANYBODY, unlessI can have it that day.  I waited for a year beyond the expected delivery date for GGD products and two years beyond the expected delivery date on Atlas products. Still waiting for for the Atlas stuff. FUGETABOUTIT.

M J Breen posted:

With the spring York show just a few weeks ago, another MTH catalog is on the horizon as well.

WHAT?????   There was a "York show" just a few weeks ago????????

 

Hot Water posted:

M J Breen posted:

With the spring York show just a few weeks ago, another MTH catalog is on the horizon as well.

WHAT?????   There was a "York show" just a few weeks ago????????

 

Yea, and Christmas was 3 weeks ago.

 

M J Breen posted:

With the spring York show just a few weeks ago, another MTH catalog is on the horizon as well. I thought it would be a good time to start the obligatory thread and foster some good discussion on the newest book from Mike's.

I always look forward to new catalogs just see which way manufacturers are headed. My guess is that we'll see all reissues as manufacturers try to get the most out of their tooling investment, but perhaps one or 2 new surprise may lay out there for us.

One engine I am guessing we might see is the C&O Kanawha 2-8-4 in Premier. It's been about 10 years since MTH last ran this model and they can be tough to find,  plus MTH went through the trouble to cut tooling for the correct steam and sand dome placement on this model (I am hoping our steam experts don't tare into me for that, I was just making a generic comment).

Lets hear your thoughts! 

The last Kanwaha was 2010 20-3418-1 20-3419-1. Who knows maybe, one thing for sure you do not see many used ones for sale. 

Mark Mcclung posted:

M J Breen posted:

With the spring York show just a few weeks ago, another MTH catalog is on the horizon as well. I thought it would be a good time to start the obligatory thread and foster some good discussion on the newest book from Mike's.

I always look forward to new catalogs just see which way manufacturers are headed. My guess is that we'll see all reissues as manufacturers try to get the most out of their tooling investment, but perhaps one or 2 new surprise may lay out there for us.

One engine I am guessing we might see is the C&O Kanawha 2-8-4 in Premier. It's been about 10 years since MTH last ran this model and they can be tough to find,  plus MTH went through the trouble to cut tooling for the correct steam and sand dome placement on this model (I am hoping our steam experts don't tare into me for that, I was just making a generic comment).

Lets hear your thoughts! 

The last Kanwaha was 2010 20-3418-1 20-3419-1. Who knows maybe, one thing for sure you do not see many used ones for sale. 

I hope we see a Kanawha in this catalog.  If so,.......

I also hope to see a Canadian National U1f #6060 in there.

Why not a railking  C&O Kanawha 2-8-4 ?I mean that never been done.I talking about with the right headlight placement.

There was a York show a few weeks ago I think (maybe the large scale show?), just not the TCA Eastern Division York Meet/Show.

It would be nice to hear about a new model. Unfortunately the MTH team is taking a back seat until someone else comes out with something that generates a lot of interest.

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

It would be nice to hear about a new model. Unfortunately the MTH team is taking a back seat until someone else comes out with something that generates a lot of interest.

With the market the way it is currently, I would NOT expect MTH to invest in ANY new tooling for steam locomotive models.

Hot Water posted:

M J Breen posted:

With the spring York show just a few weeks ago, another MTH catalog is on the horizon as well.

WHAT?????   There was a "York show" just a few weeks ago????????

 

Sonofgun dagnabbit - I always check my posts and yet this slipped by me. My intent was to say "ahead" and not "ago" - I can blame autocorrect all I want but it's my responsibility to read them carefully before posting.

Thanks for keeping me on my toes - I will keep trying to make my posts "waterproof."

please let there be an MK5000C in that catalog

or some conrail or ontario northland stuff

I'd like to see a Railking GG1 in the as delivered paint scheme. A few Premier engines that come to mind that hasn't been made in a while are the as mentioned Kanawah, the GN W1 Cascade, and the C&O M1 Steam Turbine as well as the UP Turbines.

Bill

Any day now we should be getting a little hint with the announcement of the catalog boxcar!

Bill

I don't see getting anything......they have out priced me. I spent $1K on a MTH PRR 2-10-4 + hopper set and that was my max ever. 

Hope a CSX YN3b Tier 4 ET44AH is in this catalog.

If MTH did a B36-7 in CSX or Seaboard System paint I would be interested.  A few popular road names in Ogauge like the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific owned them, so there is a business case for it. 

I'm not hoping for anything that will catch my eye. Prices are high and I have too much stuff  that I'm never going to run as it is.

  Still waiting if MTH will release this with my previously mentioned corrections...tender trucks, graphics..etc

    Many of us CPR fans will appreciate the changes with our wallets open

Al

I am fine with existing models but wouldn't it be nice (for some of us) to see a catalog with new road names or ones we've rarely seen?  F-3 units in Great Norther Sky Blue, Illinois Central GP-9 units in the orange and white scheme, Chicago & Eastern Illinois F-3 or GP-7 units, Raritan River, Morristown & Erie, Black River & Western, Columbus & Greenville.  If MTH made just one from this list, I'd be happy.

The SOO LINE had many gondolas and flat cars that CAN be produced in O scale.

There has not been SOO F7 A unit in the 1960's era scheme.

They have never produced the Premier O Scale 40' Trailers In the totally accurate Chicago & North Western FALCON SERVICE graphics from the 1970's.

The scale Railking H10-44 I got last week is great!  Nice sounds and the horn is outstanding.. If they come out with a hippo 2-10-0 I will bite if it is not to much. other then that it will be diesels from now on. 

I like to see a ACS 64.

Did MTH ever come out with an AC9?

SantaFeJim posted:

I really couldn't care less.   I am NOT singling out MTH.

• I feel the same way about Lionel and Atlas.  I will not buy another product from ANYBODY, unlessI can have it that day.  I waited for a year beyond the expected delivery date for GGD products and two years beyond the expected delivery date on Atlas products. Still waiting for for the Atlas stuff. FUGETABOUTIT.

Ohhh, you poor thing!!   

I waited three and a half years for the Union Pacific Coal Turbine.  I thought they forgot to make it!  The good thing is through my dealer I didn't have to fork out any money until it was delivered.

The problem is, we can't just go to another store, dealer or manufacturer to get this stuff when we want it.  We might get lucky if someone makes a similar item at near the same time and delivers it first.  But that's as rare as the Tookie Tookie bird.

We make our choices and take our chances.

The EUROPEAN liquified gas tank cars are so similar to ones operating in the USA and Canada, why have they not offered them in the Premier line?

The ACF Centerflow 2-bay covered hoppers can finally be produced in the GN 1966 scheme, NP 1966 scheme, CB&Q 1966 scheme, and the B&O Chessie System 1976 scheme.

"The EUROPEAN liquified gas tank cars are so similar to ones operating in the USA and Canada, why have they not offered them in the Premier line?"

Because similar is not same.  

The TTX GONDOLAS they sell are not accurate either.

The GE ES44AC was not revised for the NORFOLK SOUTHERN Heritage series, so having the tank cars being similar would MATCH the diesel loco approximations.

O gauge tinplate that is not a remake of something originally released more than half a century ago. 

A lot of people complaining; where are the new tools? Not me, I'm just waiting for MTH, Lionel and Atlas to make product in my favorite road names and colors. If I was a NYC, Pennsy, UP fan or a few others that I cannot verify right now, there would have been more choices than I could afford. I did a research on Lionel Legacy and found that I have purchased 2 out of 3 Legacy locomotives produced in my choice of road names and paint scheme (era).

O GAUGE tinplate versions of modern freight haulers, like the SD70ACe diesels and Greenbrier 5188 cu ft Covered Hoppers and MAXI-STACK III CAR.

I will let you guys in on a secret, our three rail track does not give a hoot if the cars are similar or dead nuts right on. 

Southern Pacific covered wagons of any type in the "bloody nose" scheme. The forgotten paint, not everything was daylight and black widow on these passenger locomotives.  

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Ok.. I waste my time...but VIEWLINERS!

Amfleet was the other Amtrak only car type but MTH has sold these for decades.  Viewliner will sell equally well I assure them.  

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Also, a Potash Corp hopper. Couldnt find a pic I could share, sort of a salmon color hopper car.  I see them in HO, N, and 1/1 scale regularly but to my knowledge never yet in O.

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1970s pre Amtrak "auto-train"  MTH made the car carriers but never offered the rest of the train.  MTH could sell a 5 car set, add ons, and multiple extra full domes.  They had the colors exactly right on the carriers they made loooonnnggg ago.

I will make my semi-annual futile case for a Kodachrome Livery.

Paul - all good waits come to those with things - Licata

Originally posted by VistadomeScott:

Also, a Potash Corp hopper. Couldnt find a pic I could share, sort of a salmon color hopper car.
 I see them in HO, N, and 1/1 scale regularly but to my knowledge never yet in O.

Your knowledge is limited. Time for it to grow! Atlas O did a special run of two numbers in the Trinity 5161 series of hopper cars.

I know it's not quite the same but MTH did do something close years ago.

The new catalog will not have no re-issue engines.  All new tooling, never seen before in O gauge offerings.   I can dream can't I?