New MTH Catalog Online

MTH should have done individually powered E/F units from the beginning. The whole tether thing was a joke in terms of looks, reliability and getting power to run the motors in the second A unit with the slave board. When you stop and consider the cost of building the slave boards and the interconnect wiring in the A units and the B units, your probably not that much cheaper than just installing two DCS control boards. The $470 pricing is simply to make the pricing consistent across all premier products. Another annoying problem is that now I cannot buy a second B unit for my older PS3 set because the interconnect wiring needed to run my slave A unit does not exist in the new B units.

MTH wish list:

1. Add smoke/sound to all units.
2. Install the 3/2 rail trucks with all driven axles and flanged wheels on the outside.
3. No more plastic wheels on $450 engines!!!

Here is a link to our pre-order prices.

http://www.legacystation.com/mth-preorder

I would like to get the CN Piggyback 20' trailers on a flat car. I miss the days when CN actually had Trailers on Flat Cars.

Andrew

Nothing here - though if any of the PS3 upgrade crowd goes after the GP20s !maybe some used PS2s will hit the market.  

The Burlington Northern log dump car graphics and Cascade Green look better than on the Lionel traditional O gauge log dump car in their 2015 catalogs.

Andrew

I like the Florida East Coast double-plugged door box car since they used to appear in GTW trains during the 1990's. Now the only FEC cars in trains are FEC 53' well double-stack cars and an occasional Auto Rack.

Andrew

There needs to be a greater variety of location names for the Alberta Cylindrical covered hoppers.

Andrew

The GATX AIRSLIDE covered hoppers were common between 1995-2000, then they slowly were taken out of service on the CN/GTW.

Andrew

I am considering the DM&IR ore cars.

Andrew

Thrall Car 55' All-Door Box Cars in the CANFOR and Lake State Railway schemes would be right for my model railroad.

Andrew

The Burlington Northern AIRSLIDE 50' Hoppers used to be common freight car, so they have to be considered.'

Andrew

The GATX TankTrain 20K Gallon tank cars could be operated at intermediate tank car with the Lionel GATX TankTrain tank cars if I can make the hose connections and boxes to match the ones on Lionel's models.

Andrew

There are no reporting marks or road number on the CN covered coil car shown in the catalog.

Andrew

Which $450 engines have plastic wheels?

^^^

Engines with plastic wheels that I know of:

Premier EMD E8

Premier EMD DDA40X

Premier Alco PA

Premier UP Coal Turbine

A lot of the older 3 axle Premier diesels had plastic non powered wheels. The new Premier 3 axle diesels with the 3 rail/2 rail trucks have all driven axles with flanges on the outside wheels. The inner axle actually does not touch the rail if you look close enough at it.

On page 85 in the new catalog, look at the wheels under the Southern E8. The inner axles are not driven and are flangeless.

Andrew,

That engine caught my eye too.  I already ordered the 9-1-1 NS SD60E from Nassau Hobby.  

At first when I went through the catalog on line nothing really caught my eye however I just got back from York and had a hard copy and noticed the following:

                                20-91579 PRR N-6b Cabin Car w/ Signal Man - I already have one and I would have been sold if they added rail phone antenna.

                                20-91579 U S Army Extended Vision Caboose - for my military train.

                                 20-94267 PRR R50B Express Reefer - have 2 already, looked for a third at York but only found the same numbers that I had.

it it does pay to have a hard copy of the catalog in hand.

JohnB

20-91579 PRR N-6b Cabin Car w/ Signal Man - I already have one and I would have been sold if they added rail phone antenna.

John. That is a great idea.   would think one could be scratch built.

The FT demonstrator is starting to tug at my wallet.

   Bill T.

TurtleLinez,

     Yes, since I already have one without the train phone antennas I will add them to my project list, which just seems to get longer. Now if they were already on it would be on preorder already. I am a lazy guy.

JohnB

If somebody were to order the UNION PACIFIC DDA40X diesel locomotive from MTH it would make sense to order the equally long UNION PACIFIC 8-door 86' high-cube boxcar from Lionel.

Andrew

The NORFOLK SOUTHERN Safety Train Set could have had been featured on one entire page.

I saw the caboose, plug-door box car, and tank car of the NS Safety train in person, but it was it as the sun was setting, so my photos were blurry.

I would like to get that NS safety train set, even though it is modern.

Andrew

Catalog works on my Win 7 laptop but only with IE, not Google Chrome.

As for contents, too bad the Premier Russian Decapod wasn't offered in Strasburg.  That would have went nice with the Strasburg coaches I have on order from the previous catalog.

There's a little bit of difference between Stasburg's Baldwin catalog decapod and a Russian decapod:

Rusty

I wasn't aware that the Strasburg Rail Road even had a "Russian Decapod".

True enough, but I think the only Strasburg engines out there in o gauge are the low end Lionel 0-8-0, and the MTH Premier 4-4-0 American.  I don't think Strasburg has those either, but I could of course be wrong.  Just seems to me that the MTH Rus Dec could potentially at least be closer to what Strasburg actually has.

I'm still miffed that MTH continues to ignore the Frisco Russians...

Rusty

I'm still miffed MTH has not included popular features (whistle steam)to their Premier steam program. Especially so since MSRP on most comparable small steam is equal that of Lionel.. I had been waiting on a DT&I Russian but will pass because for me whistle steam on any new expensive steamer I buy today is a priority one.

My order this catalog...the MR signal man caboose and a UP RPO baggage car.

I was at the MTH booth at York talking to one of their reps who was demonstrating the steam whistle on their new Big Boy. I asked when we could expect seeing steam whistles on all Priemier steam engines. He said the issue was room inside the boiler and where the whistle was located on the boiler. The BB was a good candidate for the steam whistle as it was located near the front near the smoke stack. If the whistle is in the rear of the boiler them the moter is in the way, if in the middle them the PS board is in the way. They were using a HO smoke unit in the BB so it sounds like don't hold your breath for the whisttl to show up in Atlantics, Pasifics, Berkshires etc.

Also one of my next Vision Line next products suggestions was a complete Strasburg train set with new tooling Decapod #90 and proper coaches open and closed, dining car etc. Based on this tread it would be a good idea.

JohnB

I was in my local hobby shop today to pick up the MTH Catalog 2016 Volume 1.

     I ask Bert, what he feels is going to be hot in his shop and he pointed out page 69.

Detroit Toledo & Ironton 2-10-0

See image below, Click to enlarge.

• Gary - Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway 

3rd Rail imported a very nice 4-8-0 in a Strasburg version about 2 years ago. It is a great little piece.

Don't forget that Sunset/3rd Rail produced a BEAUTIFUL model of the Norfolk & Western Rwy. M class 4-8-0 locomotives, including the specific locomotive at Strasburg, i.e. #475.

I'm in for a few SD60Es & the   spirit of Roanoke 611. 

I was going to get teh NS SD40-2 till i saw the road number & realized the prototype version has a nose headlight - so that's off my list now.  Still trying to decide if I need a GP40-2 in NS

Since I am in the fortuitous position of only wanting one O-gauge item to be built, was not expecting much if anything from this catalog.  Thanks to Mike Reagan with Lionel's help recently delivered the High-Nose GP-30's which satisfied my wants with the exception of a Norfolk and Western late (1950's) steam era Steele  cabin car. 

But with that said, I would be in for the Southern #6900 E-8 if and only if they offer a contemporary version with ditch-lights.  Tooling is not a problem since they did already make the PRR Levin E-8"s.

And while on the subject the 2016 volume 1 catalog cover portrays the NCTM "Streamliner" Event in O-gauge art work.  So as such the Erie #833 E-8 and UP #949 E-8 both have ditch-lights and the UP #949 has only a single headlight as at the "Streamliner" Event.

The Wabash #1009 E-8 dose NOT have ditch-lights.

And here is the Pan Am and EMD F and FT units.

Ron

Best mth catalog in years. Plenty of items for most except you will have to pay almost 3x the original cost.

IC main line car finally a first, subways return although no R160, R15 or blue & silver 12's.

The LIRR S-2 is a plus!

I'll just have to wait for new tooling I guess?

S.