MTH has posted a Video of the German BR-44 'Jumbo' Steam Engine and it along with the E-94 'Crocodile' Electric and the French 1-4-1 P Mikado Steam Engine are scheduled to be coming in soon.
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Originally Posted by GARDNER:
MTH has posted a Video of the German BR-44 'Jumbo' Steam Engine and it along with the E-94 'Crocodile' Electric and the French 1-4-1 P Mikado Steam Engine are scheduled to be coming in soon.
OK but, couldn't you have provided a link to said video????
Here`s the Video, if it works.
If not for the $$$$....I'd have to get one!!! Neat!
Question to MTH: Why is the video is talking about a class 44 loco but what's being shown is numbered as if it's a class 50? While both are 2-10-0's they are two very different types of loco's with the 50 series being dual cylinder not triple like the 44. I'm hoping this is just a sample mistake or printing test for a future model (some sub-types shared a similar boiler) and not a signal of something not right in the production run.
Well I am not a big fan of foreign trains however that is a nice loco. I hope someone I know buys one.
John
Originally Posted by dsinn:
Question to MTH: Why is the video is talking about a class 44 loco but what's being shown is numbered as if it's a class 50? While both are 2-10-0's they are two very different types of loco's with the 50 series being dual cylinder not triple like the 44. I'm hoping this is just a sample mistake or printing test for a future model (some sub-types shared a similar boiler) and not a signal of something not right in the production run.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed some real "mistakes" in that video. First, the locomotive model is indeed a 3-cylinder, if you look at the counter weight locations on the drive wheels. Second, the "sound file" is NOT the exhaust of a 3-cylinder locomotive. Third, why does it have a road number of a 50 Class "Kriegslokomotiven"? The 44 Class locomotives did indeed have 3-cylinders, however.
Something is definitely fishy.
I agree with you AMCDave. I always said if MTH ever produced an O gauge version of this engine, I'd get one. Then I saw the price. 
Steve
Originally Posted by AMCDave:
If not for the $$$$....I'd have to get one!!! Neat!
Hopefully MTH can renumber these models correctly in the production run. And cannot MTH reprogram the sound file to have the correct 3 cylinder chuffs? They mention the fact that the models will have 3 cylinder chuffs in that video.
Steve
Very nice looking engine however I'm not interested in European engines either.
