MTH FEF3 4-8-4

MTH just released a -2 version (scale 2 rail) of a Santa Fe Hudson.  

 

When did they announce no 2 rail engines will be produced in the future?

 

Does that mean no diesels, etc?

 

 

Maybe Mojave Mike is confused?

I didn't want to wait for my FEF 3 so I bought a Sunset model in 2 rail. When not available one way find it another. Just wish Sunset did more diesels than the few a decade or so back.

 

 

MTH has been making many of their diesels available in 2-rail for several years...I have 6 of the ES44AC's In 2-rail....but I was surprised they weren't continuing that trend with more of the steam engines.  I lost out on ordering one of the Sunset engines a few years back (no one's fault but my own).  There are 2 Sunset engines available on Ebay right now, but both are 3-rail.  And the Overland models are a little to pricey for me right now at $2,400 a pop.  

I'm in the same boat. But I actually talked to mike about why he didn't 2 rail the F-E-F. Since it wasn't originally done in 2 rail and to have go and change the tooling was more exspensive considering they usually only sell about 10 units in 2 rail. So it just wasn't cost effective to do. That's also why some of the other older engines aren't 2rail.

Now I'm sure the diesels sell more 2rail units than the steam. I wish I had a lathe to be able to machine my own stuff but that's just not doable at this time.

Ralph

Okay, that makes sense, thanx for the answer.   Now I just need to keep an eye out for one of those elusive 2-rail Sunset Northerns....

I am in the middle of 2- railing a Lionel FEF.  The only thing that is remotely a challenge is the drivers, and Joe Foehrkolb will do them for you for a quarter of what I would charge.  Plus, they then are rim-insulated, which is way better than whatever MTH does.

 

I set out to 2-rail a 2-rail MTH Hudson, and wound up making an entirely new mechanism.  That's what I think of the MTH 2- rail steam - it needs to be re-2-railed.

 

Opinion.