MTH Railking Scale AS-616

NO I missed it. I guess I will have to join for 2015!

THis Paint scheme is definitely in the Diesel Demonstrators book.

Hello; not to be picky but the AS-616 is a Baldwin model.

If you read MTH's description it does say ALCO but it is not correct.

Whoever wrote that must be a BIG ALCO Fan.

If you read MTH's description it does say ALCO but it is not correct.

Whoever wrote that must be a BIG ALCO Fan.

OR doesn't know their ALCo from their Baldwin!!!! or can't read the side of the paint scheme.

I missed that discrepency in the first post. 

If you open the second link in the original post it takes you to MTH's web page you will see they call it an Alco, oh well.

Wow you guys are right it is a Baldwin engine, sorry about that. I guess I need to read up on my locomotive rosters again. Either way, the engine looks great in the Demo paint scheme.

Saw that and might order one. The AS-616 was obviously beaten with an ugly stick during production, but that gives it character.

I will pass on this one.  I was hoping for something cool after the TM-1 and TM-2.

Ugly? Bah! Designed to be a freight workhorse without fripperies. I own 3 of the MTH examples in PRR (naturally).

EMD's chief engineer Richard "Dick" Dilworth set out to make a locomotive so ugly no railroad would ever use it in mainline/passenger service. Are the Baldwin locos uglier?

I have that model engine in C&NW livery.  Originally PS-1 sound and conventional control, but it has been updated to PS-2, which makes it possible for me to operate on my all command control layout. 

But I thought that it came in a purple box and was listed as MTH Premier.  Is it possible that when they re-issued the engine that they downgraded it to Rail Kink?  Perhaps it doesn't have ALL the features that contemporary Premier engines have.

Paul Fischer

The only reference to Alco I see in the second link is in the first paragraph describing the Alco RS-1.

Stuart

My hobby is metal or wood, but I might have sprung for one of these in SP Tiger Stripe if they had upgraded the truck blocks.

They are kind of small - a PS-1 box car would dwarf the real thing. But I love those trucks!

I put down my $50 and ordered one. Can't beat the price for a PS3. Also the color delivered will be silver and not the white in the photo above.

I placed an order for one, I like the dual logos and the story behind that demonstrator.