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Roller bearing trucks an anachronism for MTH

RoyBoyRoyBoyOGR Forum Member MEMORIALIZED MEMBER

Hello all,

 

I just received the latest newsletter/email/bulletin from MTH and had to write.

 

They have some beautiful 36 foot wood-sided reefers coming out and they are equipped with... roller bearing trucks! WTF??

 

Does anybody in the engineering department, or the marketing department, or the production department, or the sales department, or ANY department do historical research?Well, the production department does whatever the H--- they want, but surely someone should have caught this.

 

Roller bearing trucks on 36 foot wood reefers would almost require a turbo train loco to pull them.

 

Come on! I know this is a rant, but how hard can it be to get a simple thing like this right?

 

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Jeff78rrJeff78rrOGR Forum Member

I would have to think this is just their artwork, and the final product will have the proper trucks on them- this is not the first time I've seen the image wrong, only to have the product correct.

 

I would still shoot them an email, or better yet, chime in on Facebook on their home page and get an immediate answer--

F 56f100OGR Forum Member
The Pennsy cabooses appear to have the correct trucks.  But the extended vision, bay window and Northeastern steel cabooses have T-section Bettendorf trucks which date to the early part of the last century.  Now there is an anachronism.Originally Posted by prrhorseshoecurve:

RoyBoy, all MTH catalog artwork for 36' Premier wood reefers have shown roller bearing trucks.  But all that I have purchase are equipped with bettendorf freight trucks.


Funny how thier cabooses are mostly equipped with the turn of the 19th century Archbar trucks yet MTH doesn't utilize them on the reefer cars....

 

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