MTH EUROPEAN STARTER SETS

If it is 1.32, I am definetely interested.

 

Mark

barrister2u: I agree.

He was talking about MTH`s new O-Gauge Two Rail Track and called it "sort of like Mini-LGB", so I`m sure He meant O Gauge..

The mini-LGB phrase suggests using 0 ga track, but for larger scale models -- for example with 1:32 models on 0 ga track = 1m = 1:32 models of meter ga equipment.

Of course it could mean something else* -- with Mike, who knows !

 

Best, SZ

 

*And I think it does, since Busch does not offer much in the way of 1:32 buildings or other scenic stuff, I just checked.  So maybe it's something like a "typical LGB start set but std gauge", like a small tank loco [ please not another Br 80  or 89 ] and "old time" 4 wh psgr cars for those 22" radius curves ???

I think He meant a typical MTH O Gauge Starter Set only Two Rail and European Proto-Types..

My guess is you are absolutely correct--O scale/gauge trains with 2-rail track.

I asked MTH on Facebook and part of their anwser was that the Engine would probably be available here for separate sale as a 3-Railer.

I'd be interested in a starter set 3 rail to get my feet wet in European.

One thing I was thinking is that with such a large 2-Rail Market in Europe and somewhat large here  it would be in MTH`s while to move the PROTO 3-2 Feature into the RAILKING Line for both American and European Prototypes.

That has already started. At York MTH had a Railking GG-1 with motorized pantograph 's I think it is posted on the web site. I think reasonably priced Railking European starter set /locomotive could open up a new door for MTH and their customers.

I certainly would be interested in Railking European steamers

I don`t know if the RAILKING GG-1 has PROTO 3-2 ,but it does come with DCC and Mike mentioned that in about 2 months all Engines will come with DCS, DCC, AC, DC, MOTOROLA-1 and MOTOROLA-2 which is part of PS-3...

Come in Chris, the water's nice.

I am not surprised that Mike would want to offer a European 2 rail starter set. The only one on the market now is the Lenz starter set that contains a Kof switcher and two freight cars. I have the engine as a separte item and it runs great, like all my other Lenz engines. I think the potential for growth in the European two rail market was underestimated and if you offer a really good product at a good price it will sell. (Just look at the Brawa modern freight cars or the MTH modern freight cars.)

All the best,

Miketg

Here's what gets me going: http://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?...1&Spur276dda=131

 

Too bad more wasn't available in the USA.

 

Too bad MTH doesn't offer something in 1.32 European as they do in American style.

 

Mark

I will be interested in European. But it will have to have Three rail American on it.

 

1/32 is a useful scale though. Just worried it wont fit in the Atlas Roundhouse or MTH single stall engine shed.

You can be absolutely certain that 1:32 scale would not fit in either of those structures.

Here are my votes for motive power if MTH ever releases a British themed starter set:

 

Class 08:

 

http://www.therailwaycentre.co...loco/Illus_Cl08.html

 

Class 14:

 

http://www.railblue.com/pages/...pth/Class%2014's.htm

 

Bob

 

 

Mike also mentioned that this First Starer Set Engine will be a German Steamer..He also mentioned that He would like to see MTH`s first HO Steamer [An S 3/6 Bavarian] be the best ever offered over there.. Also mentioned is that MTH has found a Supplier of Bi-Colored LED`s [White to Red] that will fit and are made for HO Marker Lamp Castings..

Bob

 

I couldn't agree more - the class 08 shunters have been around a long time and so have appeared in many paint schemes; they are neat, functional and to be seen everywhere in the UK. Plus, they are likely to be around for along time yet - no need to replace what works so well! MTH could do well marketing different paint schemes over a period of years.

 

But (in my opinion)  if you want to appeal to enough UK 0 gauge operators, MTH would have to supply locos with switchable 2 and 3 rail options - and at 1/43 scale: the only smaller scale 0 gauge is in the tinplate market, which is quite a specialized interest here.

 

David

Busch Gardens in VA has some neat representations of European steam engines running around the park. Does anybody know the actual locomotives these are based on? It would be neat if MTH did o scale models of these steamers since they actually run in the US. ( I don't mean scale models of the Busch Gardens engines. I mean scale models of what they were based on. I'm pretty sure the Busch Gardens engines are themselves "scale" models. Just really large scale)

I'm not into European trains but you can't help buy be wowed by something like this
I could actually imagine someone blowing the whistle.Pan down the page to see what I mean. Now that's what I call detailed.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Kiss-BR...;hash=item27c6eafc41

David

Hi Bob,

 

If you want an O gauge British rail/LMS class 08 Bachmann made one for the UK market and there seem to be plenty around. Try the Tower Models website.

 

And for anyone interested in UK O gauge I cannot speak highly enough of the UK's Gauge O Guild. They have a great website and if you join you get a fantastic quarterly magazine with a broad range of articles including some on US outline but mainly UK.

By the way Bachmann have moved out of the O gauge Brass market in the UK passing it on to Tower Models. They made some great stuff but I am not sure how they ended up so far from their traditional range.

Cheers

Pete

As I recall, the Busch Gardens locomotives were built by Sandly Light Railway and Equipment Works in the Wisconson Dells.  Sandley also built the 2-4-2 and reworked a German 0-8-0T (both 2' gauge) into a tender locomotive for the Brookfield Zoo.(Ilinois)  The Zoo locomotives are now in Heston, Indiana.  They all are essentially "freelanced" locomotives, with the specs from the 0-8-0T boiler being a staring point. 

 

Sandly is long out of business, but the area remains as the "Riverside and Great Northern" miniature railroad in the Dells.     http://www.randgn.com/

 

Rusty

Gardner, the old Bavarian was one of the very best out there. Mountain work if I recall correct. Between that and one of the English's Larger engines it's hard to choose first engine to "Collect" and run.

I'd like to see Deutsche Bundesbahn (DRG) steam loks. Class 01, 03, 50, 53 to name a few.