On a positive note, I may order some rolling stock like twin stacks (pg. 128), and definitely the Nickel Plate streamlined passenger cars (pg. 136)
Negative: Dearth of midwest road names. No MoPac, Frisco, MKT. Boo. Twelve years since they made a Premier Missouri Pacific cab unit and never in PS3. I'd settle for some MoPac passenger cars. I'll send my semi-annual MTH email request now. 
Lots of nice items for a New York Central, New Haven nut like me.....no “gotta haves” . However, I’m sure some of the items will follow me home 
.....
Peter
Well, that was a bust. Nothing of any interest to me in this catalog.
I'm in for the CP military/heritage diesels
I see on the BB MTH has now added quillable steaming whistle. I also saw it in the description of the T1 too. Wonder if it will make it to the rest?
No Railking passenger cars in the catalog. I am in for the LIRR RS1 and some rolling stock.
@Surefire posted:I'm in for the CP military/heritage diesels
I would've liked to have seen all 5, but maybe it's for the best! LOL Order ing all 5 would've been a painful financial hit.
Wow. A lot of nice product, but unfortunately nothing that I want. I was hoping for more Friendship Train cars.
The LIRR RS1, LIRR & BEDT S2 switchers & the NY dock railroad 44-ton are my favorites. I’ll probably choose 2 and do some rolling stock.
I haven't bought anything new in long time, The Sunset/3rd Rail E60 was on my list but has now been replaced by the Amtrak Turbo Train. I've always wanted a model of that since I saw them in Grand Central when I was a kid. So I'll be saving up for that.
Having interest in the CNJ F3s, I noticed that the M&STL F3s are shown in MILW paint scheme. A small error in such trying times.
I may look into getting the Turbotrain, since I think that engine looks kind of cool in videos of it I have seen. Perhaps a 44-toner, as I think it would be nice to have a small engine.
I did not see any railking passenger cars?
Well the Reading T-1 DOES have whistle steam! But why isn't the T-1 on the catalog available in the catalog?!
I remember the NY Dock RR. Took many photo trips there to Brooklyn in the 1970's era. Visited all the yards including Pidgeon Street. Even have a photo of my oldest daughter in the cab of the NYD (ex. Southern) RS-3 that they bought at a good price but later found out it was too big for the curves.
Think I need to get a NYD 44t and of course the CNJ F-3 A-A-A-B-B diesels in all those roadNUMBERS.
Thanks.
Walter/RMT
Once again very disappointed in the poor selection of the woodsided clerestory passenger cars in the Premier line, these are great looking passenger cars. Why repeat the stuff from the west and the east. How about some stuff from the Mid-west? Like CMStP&P or CM&StP; Soo Line or MStP&SSM; or C&NW???
What era is the LIRR RS1? I'm assuming it hauled freight only, and once again it's freight sounds?
I may go for the CP heritage locomotive. It would be my first modern era diesel. If I had an unlimited budget, I'd buy the military units.
@pdxtrains posted:What era is the LIRR RS1? I'm assuming it hauled freight only, and once again it's freight sounds?
So the RS1 has the Tichy Paint scheme, which was painted on to the actual ones from 1950-1952 and were repainted for the World's Fair scheme in 1963-64. The Tichy Paint scheme was reserved for locomotives operating passenger trains. Of the three other LIRR RS1s MTH has made, two have the passenger announcements and the other has the freight announcements. Hopefully, MTH gets it right and includes the passenger announcement sequence in this one.
There are SOO and BN TWIN-STACK 5-unit cars to get.
There are ILLINOIS TERMINAL and Pullman-Standard waffle box cars to get.
The Chessie System, ILLINOIS CENTRAL, and ROCK ISLAND PS-1 50' box cars are ones that I must get, finally.
They have the MONON ACF Center Flow 2-bay covered hoppers finally.
The Arcadia & Mad River Railroad ALL-DOOR box car is what I have to get. Perhaps HAMPTON Lumber also.
Perhaps a CNW or Landmark PS-2-CD high-sided 3-bay covered hopper.
The KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN, UNION PACIFIC, SOO/CP, BNSF Multi-Max Corrugated Auto Carriers are what I would like to get for a Multi-Max train.
Andrew
Last year as a MTH Club member I ordered the Tinplate car. I am glad I got it. No tinplate car this year nor S and HO car. Only Premier and Rail King.
The PROCOR tank car and the Union Carbide tank cars are ones that are in the CN/GTW trains that I would like to get.
Andrew
Falcon Service
I really like those Premier Maine Central F3's! Will be watching for those to arrive.
They have a new number of the GRAND TRUNK WESTERN 4-bay cylindrical hopper. That is unexpected.
Andrew
There is an LS&I ore car in RailKing. I have to get that for the ore car trains.
The Rio Grande AIRSLIDE hopper is one that I would have to get.
Andrew
Too bad that they are re-issuing the SW1500 in Nasa.....Is this the third run? Needs to offer in the Southern Pacific scheme as they had 200 of these. Nobody wants Southern Pacific SD35 as SP only had around 30 of these units.
Santa Fe SD45 has already been made by MTH in that "as delivered" road number series....Needs to be done in their 5300 series road number which they wore the longest.
The PREMIER Southern Pacific SD45 is strangely absent from the catalog.
@Lirr 1555 posted:So the RS1 has the Tichy Paint scheme, which was painted on to the actual ones from 1950-1952 and were repainted for the World's Fair scheme in 1963-64. The Tichy Paint scheme was reserved for locomotives operating passenger trains. Of the three other LIRR RS1s MTH has made, two have the passenger announcements and the other has the freight announcements. Hopefully, MTH gets it right and includes the passenger announcement sequence in this one.
Thank you for your help. BTW, I love the LIRR video clips , both railfan and model trains, on your Youtube channel. While I have you, I have a question: is the commuter LIRR train you have running the new bluetooth Lionel version M7, or the original ?
Frankly, given everything that is going on in our nation, I'm just glad MTH came out with a Vol 2 for this year. If there was ever a hobby for living in stay-at-home sequestration, model railroading is it.
Being retired I do not have the challenge of losing my job or wondering when I will be able to safely go back to work. But my favorite restaurants and sole local hobby shop have been closed since early March. Those folks are having tough times. So once things return somewhat to normal, I'm going to eat out more than usual...and...I'm going to order more in this catalog from my LHS than I normally would.
Things that interest me are the NKP Berks (early vs later lettering; "later" is for the fan trip engine?; my only NKP Berk is a converted to PS-2 original ProtoSound engine; looking forward to getting a PS-3 engine), the NP GP7, RG SD45 (yes Falcon Service, we do need a Premier SP SD45; I did order the RailKing Scale one for a multi engine consist hauling sugar beets), B&O SD35, N&W High Hood SD35 and the Monon hoppers and 2-bay center flow hoppers.
I'm confident we will come out of this. I just want to do my part to see that my LHS also comes out of it intact.
I may order the Premier 6-car set of fishbelly hoppers in Western Maryland Speedletter scheme. The Premier crane and caboose in C&O could be a possibility also.
I would order a Western Maryland RS-3, but I have two PS2 ones, one in Speedletter and the other in Fireball. I'm not interested in the WM Berk since I have a WM Pacific.
@Rick Wright posted:Frankly, given everything that is going on in our nation, I'm just glad MTH came out with a Vol 2 for this year. If there was ever a hobby for living in stay-at-home sequestration, model railroading is it.
Being retired I do not have the challenge of losing my job or wondering when I will be able to safely go back to work. But my favorite restaurants and sole local hobby shop have been closed since early March. Those folks are having tough times. So once things return somewhat to normal, I'm going to eat out more than usual...and...I'm going to order more in this catalog from my LHS than I normally would.
Things that interest me are the NKP Berks (early vs later lettering; "later" is for the fan trip engine?; my only NKP Berk is a converted to PS-2 original ProtoSound engine; looking forward to getting a PS-3 engine), the NP GP7, RG SD45 (yes Falcon Service, we do need a Premier SP SD45; I did order the RailKing Scale one for a multi engine consist hauling sugar beets), B&O SD35, N&W High Hood SD35 and the Monon hoppers and 2-bay center flow hoppers.
I'm confident we will come out of this. I just want to do my part to see that my LHS also comes out of it intact.
Rick, I agree with you about being glad they even came out with a catalog too! I'm recently retired, and my wife is laid off, but I think we may get by if she doesn't go back if called. Yes, this has been a great hobby for spending time at home, especially when it is snowing outside on May 8th!!! 
They also didn't offer an auxiliary tender for the Chessie T-1. I mean they have the tooling for it. Also, what happened to the Premier heavyweights?
@Hudson J1e posted:Last year as a MTH Club member I ordered the Tinplate car. I am glad I got it. No tinplate car this year nor S and HO car. Only Premier and Rail King.
I noted that too when I called to renew my membership last week. For me, not much impact, since I did the same thing I always have, ordering a RK and a Premier car each year for the most part, but I do wonder if it's another sign.
As to the rest of the offerings, not 100% on anything, but I'm sure I'll at least end up with 4-5 pieces of rolling stock, even if no engines. I may double check the NASA engine vs paint schemes of previous ones I have, but I'm starting to think I have too many of those even if it is slightly different in some way.
-Dave
Very interesting not to see any RK passenger cars, I hope they are not discontinuing them 
The P5a or P5a Modified was last offered 2006-ish, glad to see them again. Its nice to see some new paint schemes but there really aren't any "new" engines.
That being said.... The CP military diesels are gorgeous, I most likely will order the dark green/spitfire one!
Bryce
@pdxtrains posted:Thank you for your help. BTW, I love the LIRR video clips , both railfan and model trains, on your Youtube channel. While I have you, I have a question: is the commuter LIRR train you have running the new bluetooth Lionel version M7, or the original ?
It is the original, I hope to get the Bluetooth set one day but I keep pushing it off.
@pdxtrains posted:What era is the LIRR RS1? I'm assuming it hauled freight only, and once again it's freight sounds?
That's before our day. I'm 64 and never seen one of those. It reminds me of a WWII Navy battle ship with that scheme. Ugly.
I like the Pennsylvania Premier Line SD-35 and the Premier Line P5A Box Cabs a lot and the Trump Train set is really nice too.
Another "If I had a million dollars"; the Boston and Maine Guilford GP40.
The Big Boys and 4-4-0 Americans are most likely in danger of being cancelled due to low order numbers.
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