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I have noted that the Nickel Plate Road and Rock Island roadnames are now cancelled,but the Interstate still shows shipping in July and the Long Island in october.But fewer stores show ordering the Interstate than the other 3 roadnames,I would have to think it won't be made either. Just would like to hear something official as I pre-paid my dealer for an IRR RS3. I would bet the smoke units did not work out in the narrow RS3 body.

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I am not familiar with the previous model, was out of the hobby back then. The new one is RK Scale which I understand to be old tooling from the Premier line. Not sure how that will change the new model (if at all), but maybe it will be an improved version. We can only hope. I model the BNSF, not Interstate, but just couldn't resist the color scheme on this fine example of an RS-3. (BNSF has no RS-3's to my knowledge, they will be leasing this one from Interstate due to the current business boom).

Originally Posted by Johnny Winkler:

Looked like the Nickel Plate RS3 got plenty of stores to pre-order to me by the product finder here,yet still cancelled.. http://www.mthtrains.com/content/30-20213-1

Not sure you can go by that? It stated these dealers 'might' have it on order. My guess would be it isn't too accurate. Not very many dealers anyway.

 

Looked up the Interstate RS-3 and my LHS was not listed in the 'might' have on order list and I know they have at least one ordered, and pretty sure there are two. One I know has positively been ordered, mine. Asked about it today when I was there, it's still showing as being on order.

August 12th MTH had posted a production sample of one of the RS-3's on Facebook So the remaining road names will be made.
https://www.facebook.com/pages...hc_location=timeline
They said they were estimating two months for delivery. In the meantime I found a RS-3 dummy to run with the Proto3 once it arrives. This is going to be a great looking model. You can still order them from Mr. Muffins trains or Nassau Hobby
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