They are here, and they are beautiful! After filling our pre-orders we have a few 2-rail and 3-rail in stock.
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Looks like another nice locomotive from MTH. I have the 6920 and will be getting one of these as well! 
This is gonna be one sharp-looking train when we assemble all the "first responder" cars that match the SD-60E or GP38 locomotives. 
Going forward, pre-ordering will be more the exception than the rule for me. And the MTH "first responder" loco and rolling stock items definitely fall into the exception category! 
nw2124 posted:mth wraps all their diesels handrails under the frame on a wire/stick which is soooo toyish because 3-railers do not know how to handle a model train.
Stephen
Stephen,
I went home & looked at my MTH Premier 2-rail ES44AC that was delivered around the end of 2013. I have had this model on my diorama for almost 3 years & I had never seen the handrails wrapped around the deck until you mentioned it & they don’t look prominent unless you lift the locomotive & look closely under the walkway. To me the handrails look as good as the ones on my Overland SD70MAC from 2000 which do end before the bottom of the walkway. I don’t know which MTH model you had a bad experience with but the details on the newer MTH models are really good. I have seen an MTH SD60 from this run, in person at a recent train show & unlike the past 2-rail models, MTH has really improved the details on the truck side-frames & the fuel tank.
Maybe you should use your influence to convince Division Point & Midwestern Model Works to make their handrails like MTH does. Nobody likes easily breakable handrails. I have passed on brass models on E-Bay when the handrails were separated. As they say in American TV shows “if you can’t beat them, join them”.
These are just my opinion,
Thanks,
Naveen Rajan
JR Junction posted:They are here, and they are beautiful! After filling our pre-orders we have a few 2-rail and 3-rail in stock.
Just curious...............do you have a picture with the snow plow installed?
Regards,
Swafford
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: They know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." ---Brendan Behan
We (LHS) have this engine in our display case. It's beautiful. Period. Nice job, Mr. Wolf and crew!
KD
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nw2124 posted:mth wraps all their diesels handrails under the frame on a wire/stick which is soooo toyish because 3-railers do not know how to handle a model train.
Stephen
Tell that to my pristine (handled, run and uninjured) brass Sunset H1 Northern that has been in and out of the box several times since I run it at the club.
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Steve,
You have been whining about the handrails for a long time. If I were you I would stop looking at them.
If you did it would give the rest of us a break from having to read your idiotic rants, just saying.
AGHRMatt posted:Tell that to my pristine (handled, run and uninjured) brass Sunset H1 Northern that has been in and out of the box several times since I run it at the club.
Matt, What a great locomotive!
nw2124 posted:I guess that I prefer models true to the prototype which means my standard are higher than yours.
Stephen
That being noted, lets see some photos of your layout and fine prototypical modeling.
nw2124 posted:... because 3-railers do not know how to handle a model train.
Stephen
Shirley you jest, Sir Stephen. I always make sure I am wearing these whenever I grapple my high priced 3rd Rail brass locomotives...
So astute of you to generalize all three railers as Cro-Magnon boors.
nw2124 posted:you can keep it in the LHS. Wonder why you haven't sold it!
Maybe because it's been there less than a week?.....and the interested buyer hasn't been in the store yet?...which of course wouldn't be you.
BTW...have you taken advantage, yet, of the new manufacturers' forum category?.....to express your disdain more directly to MTH? Why not? You worked Scott Mann and Bob Heil over pretty well expressing your disdain for their Cincinnatian cars/names not long ago. Is there any manufacturer that you have high regard for? Are you always this miserable, critical, and haughty?
By the way, speaking as one of those you disdain.....a 3-railer who doesn't know the "proper" way to pick up a toy train engine...do you know how insignificant your opinion is? I only hope you feel better for having expressed it.....but I'd rather doubt it.
You (try hard to) have a nice day, Stephen.
KD
Well...looks like our friends at JR Junction who only intended to let those of you interested that they had a few of these models left have had their thread derailed.... I got several alerts and so I am spending some time editing but may have to do quite a bit. PLEASE stop the debate here over the handrails....Stephen....you can do so directly in the MTH forum and ask POLITELY why they do it the way they do.
