New MTH Website

Great!

The MTH Website was already light years ahead of its competitors  Now its even more awesome

The new product locator is fantastic! Finding items is so much faster.

Glad to hear all the assets from the old site will be carried forward. I was so disappointed when Lionel removed everything from their website that was from before 2010.

The new site is really fantastic! When you have time to poke around, click into a locomotive (any locomotive) and click the "Support" tab half down the page. The "Part List" and "Exploded View" links work AMAZINGLY WELL! They take you to MTH Parts & Sales and display all the parts for any given product. The best part is it no longer takes you to the old outdated system which led you down a rabbit hole!

We are really excited to see the new MTH Trains site go live! Many more GREAT things to come!

Congrats Rich, Bradley & the gang!

This is good news from both the perspective of having the benefits of a modern website but also from the perspective of providing additional evidence that MTH is not going away, given the confusion caused by the events in 2020.  

Perhaps we will see some new tooling at some point?  Would have the same dual benefit, in terms of product interest and assurance about the state of the company.

@MTH PARTS & SALES, LLC posted:

The new site is really fantastic! When you have time to poke around, click into a locomotive (any locomotive) and click the "Support" tab half down the page. The "Part List" and "Exploded View" links work AMAZINGLY WELL! They take you to MTH Parts & Sales and display all the parts for any given product. The best part is it no longer takes you to the old outdated system which led you down a rabbit hole!

We are really excited to see the new MTH Trains site go live! Many more GREAT things to come!

Congrats Rich, Bradley & the gang!

It would be helpful if the DCS sound file sample audio (.mp3) for the particular engine was again included here on the new Support page as it was on the old site.  It was quite helpful to click/listen to find PFA sounds files for the right named train or stations one wanted to download.  The zip DCS file is included on the new Support page, but it is/will be inefficient to search by download when you know that the sound file sample can be offered. 

The new site looks and works so much better.  Nice work.  Now, I'm looking forward to new tinplate!  400E's?

This is a thousand times better. Very fast and the look is much cleaner and in today's style. The integration with the Parts site is a winner.

One suggestion on the Product Search I would like to be able to type ahead on the Road Name dropdown. The list is gigantic and not sorted too well.

@Ray Lombardo posted:

Perhaps we will see some new tooling at some point?  

Mike did mention at Berwyn's Hobby that there is some, not sure how much, new tooling in the works.

The format of the old site didn't bother me much but the speed, wow what a difference.  Nice job!

Edit:  The link issue I posted about is already resolved.  No need for negative here...

Again, nice job MTH!

Tony V

That's a very impressive overhaul.  Much, much better.  Kudos MTH!

George

The new website really is great. Where's that Forum post about all the things MTH has contributed to this hobby? And by implication, others haven't.

Gerry

In just a few moments poking around the product search, I managed to find some stuff I missed (both at original announcement and in the old version of the product search) and now have to hunt down... so I have mixed feelings on this upgrade...

Andy

@gmorlitz posted:

The new website really is great. Where's that Forum post about all the things MTH has contributed to this hobby? And by implication, others haven't.

Gerry

I wouldn't go down that rabbit-hole, Gerry.  None of the train manufacturers have untarnished halos. 

George

LOOKS GREAT CAN,T WAIT TO SEE MORE TINPLATE ENGINES AND CARS

The old site used to list the catalog the item was in. They have removed this info from the new site.

Charlie

I miss:

1. Where it was noted which catalog the item was in.

2. The support feature where the sound of each engine could be heard

3. Ease of finding which dealers have a particular product. Perhaps this is available, but I couldn't seem to find it.

d

@ekaz posted:

I miss:

1. Where it was noted which catalog the item was in.

2. The support feature where the sound of each engine could be heard

3. Ease of finding which dealers have a particular product. Perhaps this is available, but I couldn't seem to find it.

There's also no link to the product manual for the locomotive!

WHERE'S THE MANUAL???  I may not need a parts list...

@bluelinec4 posted:

The MTH Website was already light years ahead of its competitors  Now its even more awesome

I hear ya, but ...

1. Part one of your statement already overexaggerated things substantially.  It was definitely better, but not by leaps and bounds.
2. Next, with so many important things having been removed between the old and the new, part two is clearly not the case either.  This new site isn't awesome.  Other than being faster, which is important, it's actually a disappointment.

Mike

@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:

This new site isn't awesome.  Other than being faster, which is important, it's actually a disappointment.

Not many share this sentiment, the overall impressions that I getting here from almost everyone else is that the new site is well received. Why are you so disappointed and what would you change.

Lets run a survey on it: https://ogrforum.com/take-surv...-the-new-mth-website

@H1000 posted:

Not many share this sentiment, the overall impressions that I getting here from almost everyone else is that the new site is well received. Why are you so disappointed and what would you change.

Lets run a survey on it: https://ogrforum.com/take-surv...-the-new-mth-website

They just haven't actually used it and tried to extract useful information yet.

@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:

I hear ya, but ...

1. Part one of your statement already overexaggerated things substantially.  It was definitely better, but not by leaps and bounds.
2. Next, with so many important things having been removed between the old and the new, part two is clearly not the case either.  This new site isn't awesome.  Other than being faster, which is important, it's actually a disappointment.

Mike

Mike   Your kidding right

Part one of my statement  Try searching on Atlas or Lionel for anything from 1995-2003   Try searching by just typing the item number   You dont know the item number search by the road number  My hint is you cant   MTH had the most robust website hands down  Search by Railroad  Search by description   Have fun on the other two because you cant do it

Part 2 of my statement  Its way faster  Better search engine  Listen to sound files and oh yeah  click on support and go right to parts diagrams   Light years ahead of the other two   Even the Old K-Line site was better than Lionel and Atlas

@bluelinec4 posted:

Part 2 of my statement  Its way faster  Better search engine  Listen to sound files and oh yeah  click on support and go right to parts diagrams   Light years ahead of the other two   Even the Old K-Line site was better than Lionel and Atlas

I like the fact that they're actually paying attention to the website, but removing the sound/chain files, User's Manuals, and misc data like catalog and year of release seems like big steps backwards.

Yes, it's a lot faster, but why at the expense of significant content?

Edit:  They must have heard me, I see there are some manuals showing up!

Good job Gunrunner John! They're listening to you!😁

No catalog, but everything else seems to be there on this search: