MTH's new 4-6-0 club offering "Abraham Lincoln"

There is also a George Washington version.

Time to rejoin the club .. that is one nice engine

hello guys and gals......

 

That's a very NICE ten wheeler, do they come with matching passenger cars ? Too bad they didn't make one for Andrew Jackson as he's the one that threw out the rothschild out of our great USA so he's number #1 in my book.

 

the woman who loves the S.F.5011

Tiffany

Very nice and certainly a very low production number

That's a really good candidate for a Walter E. Disney repaint.

Based on the similarity (seems identical except for the lettering), I'd be very surprised if these were not the engines originally intended for that purpose.  (the project apparently was cancelled for reasons unknown to most of us)

 

 

-Dave

I would have bought a Walter E Disney engine in a heart beat if it was done

Yup, the MTH ten-wheeler is a 1:29 replica of the Walter E. Disney.  I was quite disappointed it never made it to market, an O-gauge Disney Park train has always been something I wanted.  When the price on second-hand engines comes down I'll get one and repaint it, eventually.  I have many happy memories of the Walt Disney World railroad.  

These look very nice and with the new PS3 system I would buy one. I have a regular Union Pacific 4-6-0 from MTH and its very nice with the wireless drawbar and no battery. I am also interested in seeing the George Washington one.

Thanks for posting! 

http://www.mthtrains.com/news/509

 

Here is the link to the MTH website and more info on the engines and photos.

 

Yes when I saw the MTH post I thought it looked like the Disney engine and would be easy to redecal over the tender.

Here is a photo of the real engine;

http://wpporter.duckburg.us/Di...s_files/Walt460x.jpg

 

I think it would look great with a set of MTH old passenger cars, like this http://www.mthtrains.com/content/20-62054

In matching bright colors and no lettering so you could add your own.

 

Sorry for a newbie question, but will this be the only way to get this engine in this configuration? Not the paint scheme, but the smoke stack, etc., or will this be offered in different colors/road names?  I have been planning to buy a 4-4-0 at some point, but might opt for a 4-6-0 instead if it were available.

And I would be equally surprised if that was not the case.  Most likely the result of a licensing issue with the Disney folks, who are notorious for being a gigantic pain-in-the-butt to deal with regarding licensing issues (I know from experience).

On a side note, from friends of mine who are involved with both the Walt Disney World Railroad and toy trains, if you look at the outer ends of some of the styrofoam packaging inside the Ten-Wheeler box, some are molded with the letters, "WDW", to signify the packaging for a WDW loco.