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M.T.H. Electric Trains To Offer Norfolk Southern Heritage Series Locomotives

March 13, 2012 - M.T.H. Electric Trains will be promoting three series of locomotives based on the recently announced Norfolk Southern Heritage Series of real-life SD70ACe and ES44 diesel locomotives. The locomotive series will be featured in M.T.H.'s Premier Line O Scale SD70ACe and ES44 locomotives and RailKing Imperial O Gauge SD70ACe locomotives beginning in the 2012 Volume 2 catalog slated for release in April 2012. In addition to the Premier and RailKing releases, M.T.H. HO Scale SD70ACe locomotives featuring the same Norfolk Southern Heritage paint schemes will be promoted in the 2012 HO Volume 1 Catalog slated for release in late Spring 2012.

Norfolk Southern is releasing a total of 18 different SD70ACe (10 paint schemes) and ES44 (8 paint schemes) diesels in special livery depicting past railroads found in Norfolk Southern's history. Unlike a similar program created by Union Pacific, each of the Norfolk Southern Heritage paint schemes used on the SD70ACe and ES44 locomotives will be based on a real-life scheme of the depicted railroad.

Because of the sheer number of locomotives, the Premier and RailKing releases will be spread out over several catalogs. The 18 RailKing releases will all be SD70ACe models. Only the 10 SD70ACe schemes will be recreated in the M.T.H. HO SD70ACe model. Delivery of the Premier, RailKing and HO models will begin in late 2012.

M.T.H. Authorized Retailers can begin ordering Norfolk Southern Heritage diesels when the 2012 Volume 2 catalog is released in mid-April. Ordering information for the HO models will likely be announced

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If Williams by Bachmann does any of these, I would not expect to see them produced before 2014 or 2015.  Seeing how long it is taking for them to produce the Genesis Phase V paint scheme which was in the 2011 and 2012 catalogs but has yet to even have hints of delivery of that one item.  Those were supposed to be delivered last summer, then last fall, then winter, now ..... who knows.  I would like to see WbB produce Amtrak heritage Genesis units as well, but they way they get things done so slowly the real units will likely have long been repainted or retired by the time WbB delivered the item. 

 

I love WbB products, but the wait for new items is laughable. 

 

I would likely buy an MTH NKP or PRR heritage.  Would be nice to see them deliver by the holiday season of 2012!

 

 

Originally Posted by yankspride4:

I wonder if they will be offering a matching caboose for each engine...

 

Ron

They would be foolish if they didn't. If we were still in business, I believe we would had a few customers that would of purchased one each of the premier diesels. I know for sure one of our customers would of bought all eighteen and none them would of ever seen daylight.

Jimmy, I think this is a good reason for you to re-open my favorite train store.  18 different engines...what a way to announce your return!   And now that the Wall Street Journal has put Homer City on the map with its big article on your polluting power plant with those huge smoke stacks, everyone will be able to find their way to your door.

 

Seriously, every day I run one of the many engines I purchased from you over the years I fondly recall the drive to Homer City, and the great customer service you and your lovely wife provided to me...and in earlier times...my two young girls.  I trust retirement is everything you hoped it would be.  Rick

Yep no shocker.  I have the full 7 UP Heritage series in Scale Wheels and absolutely love them.  18 wow that is a big commitment.  At MSRP that is 8442 and if we apply a generous discount on each @400 that is still 7200.  

 

Yea I too wonder which will be out first.  The prototype's from NS or the models from Lionel or MTH...

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Originally Posted by pitogo:

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Yea I too wonder which will be out first.  The prototype's from NS or the models from Lionel or MTH...

 According to the NS press release you should start seeing them in March (I'm assuming 2012 but I could be wrong) so I will guess the real ones first.

 

Mike, I contacted Overland about doing them in brass.  We shall see.

hahah sure OK for a whopping $37,710 for the complete set assuming they sell each piece at $2095 and they also make the ES44s.  Not sure I'm willing to sell my future to live in the now.
 
Oh and yes you are right.  I haven't been keeping up but there are two at the paint shop.
 

1) NS 8098 (Conrail) at Juniata in Altoona, PA
2) NS 8099 (Southern) at Chattanooga, TN

 
 
Originally Posted by rdunniii:

 

Mike, I contacted Overland about doing them in brass.  We shall see.

Originally Posted by rdunniii:
Originally Posted by pitogo:

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Yea I too wonder which will be out first.  The prototype's from NS or the models from Lionel or MTH...

 According to the NS press release you should start seeing them in March (I'm assuming 2012 but I could be wrong) so I will guess the real ones first.

 

Mike, I contacted Overland about doing them in brass.  We shall see.


At least two of the NS locos are in the paint booth as I write this with several more ready to go in right behind them so I'd say they will start to circulate in late March or early April.

 

Poppyl

Originally Posted by pitogo:
hahah sure OK for a whopping $37,710 for the complete set assuming they sell each piece at $2095 and they also make the ES44s.  Not sure I'm willing to sell my future to live in the now.
 
Oh and yes you are right.  I haven't been keeping up but there are two at the paint shop.
 

1) NS 8098 (Conrail) at Juniata in Altoona, PA
2) NS 8099 (Southern) at Chattanooga, TN

 
 
Originally Posted by rdunniii:

 

Mike, I contacted Overland about doing them in brass.  We shall see.

2 or 3 Overland > 18 Lionel/MTH for me so $5-7k vs over $10K.

Not a modern diesel guy so will wait for Williams if they ever do it just to get an original Norfolk and Southern Railway paint job.  Would prefer a dummy so I might display it.  Probably wouldn't run a modern engine on the layout.  If MTH does it, I hope they save some of the paint and put in on a rerun of a Baldwin AS616.

 

Ray

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