MTH -errors or mistakes

I'm not sure how often it happens but I have a Premiere heavyweight Pullman car. the box says its a combine, the interior is clearly a combine but printed on both sides is "Railway Post office".

Pete

I've got a couple of RailKing locos with detailing missing.

First is a PRR GG1 & the key stone logo on the front & rear missing.

The second is a UP 49er with one side missing the whiskers lining.

James  

Many of MTH's decoration schemes are outright fantasies, even in the Premier line. As to the ones that try to be prototypical, sometimes they get it right and sometimes they don't. I'm always amazed at the degree to which a company like MTH (or Lionel, they make plenty of errors too) can do a lot of research on a particular engine or car and them make some glaring error that undermines the credibility of the whole thing. I try not to let it bug me too much, but sometimes it's so blatant that you can't help but be annoyed (i.e. MTH's WWI-era caboose trucks on cabooses from the 50's through the 70's).

Around here, we talk about READING & NORTERN hoppers (no "H" in "NORTHERN") and Western Maryland Geeps with the nose herald upside down: MW instead of WM. Apparently no one noticed that the straight "legs" of the "M" were on the wrong side until WM fans spotted it.

On the other hand, MTH removed READING lettering from B-units (as Reading fans requested) and placed the number 90906 on a big yellow Premier crane to represent the last Reading steam crane, built in 1948.

Two other examples are the result of someone following an original a little too closely. I vaguely recall that no fraud was intended. I have an HO gondola with tiny BLT BY / LIONEL lettering, though it isn't a Lionel car. I have also heard of BLT BY / LIONEL being stamped on a few repros of Jersey Central FM Train Masters (2341; 1956) before someone caught it.

The most recent iteration of the Premier black Union Pacific Challenger no. 3711 has a coal tender rather than the oil tender of the real 3711.  The M10000 City of Salina has an announcement of train no. 100 arriving at the western terminus but westbound trains end in odd, not even, train numbers.  The Pennsylvania Q2s and J1a sometimes sport red rather than olive green cab roofs.  The J1s use the Q2 tender instead of their own J1a tenders.

The boys at Circle L aren't innocent either.

Flyer Challenger #3977, coal tender instead of the advertised oil tender:

Flyer 3977 Challenger, gray stripe omitted on cab:

The crew figures weren't included either, even though in the features list on the box flap.

Flyer EL U33C, Yellow pinstripes missing on left side of hoods:

Lionel 2628 Manhattan Pullman, Manhattan missing:

Now to be fair, Lionel replaced the Pullman and Flyer U33C and I decided not to sell the Challenger back to Lionel.

Rusty