S Gaugian Interview with MTH

Any thought to expanding beyond the SHS tooling.

Rusty

Would MTH consider making modern rolling stock that would run behind the scale Legacy diesels that Lionel has made?

I would like to see if MTH is willing to reaffirm that they plan on producing the full SHS catalog of products before I would even ask about "newly tooled" equipment.  There is serious doubt in my mind that MTH has any real resolve to promote their brand in S.  I think the reasons why are painfully obvious.  

That being said, what pace do they plan on taking with offering of future product release from SHS in 2017? 

Are they planing on a "catalog" anytime soon, or will future releases be via separate flyer/bulletin? 

Will we see more road names in F3s anytime soon? 

Are there any cabooses in the near future? SHS cabooses are just fantastic.

Will there be a switcher in 2017?

Ben 

Will we see the full SHS line introduced before we see the E-7 that was under development? Perhaps a model that was never offered by SHS would stir interest.

Thanks for your replies so far.

I asked MTH and Lionel about making modern freight rolling stock last year.  The answer was no.  I can see if anything has changed.  The reason was most modelers use engines from the past especially steam engines.  That is where they felt the most buyers were. 

So, they don't think folks run the modern locomotives they've been making? I can understand MTH's stand, as they haven't made any modern stuff, but Big L? This is sorta like the reasoning behind no cars for the Comet steam loco. American Models to the rescue!

Of course, if they don't know how to make trucks to match their cars, I can see it.

That's strange Bill, because Lionel said they would be making such cars when they were selling about 30 different road names in the SD70 and 30 road names in the ES44...and I bought them.  

Ben

Guys....I need questions not statements please.

JFC454 posted:

Would MTH consider making modern rolling stock that would run behind the scale Legacy diesels that Lionel has made?

I have to say I agree with the above post, if Lionel are adamant that they have no intention of making modern rolling stock for these locomotives, then it leaves the market wide open for AM and MTH to fill it at Lionel's expense.

I am slightly at a loss to understand why so many people have this perception that Lionel and no one else should fulfill all there requirements and not consider the other manufactures, have I missed something here?

I understand that Lionel made the locomotives but in the 'O' gauge world there are other manufactures that build rolling stock that can go with many other companies loco's and customers pick and mix, so what is the issue here in the 'S' gauge world?

Remember MTH was not interested in making modern rolling stock either.

MTH can play the "era" card though, SHS did not make anything modern.  

Ben

I'd pretty much echo the Questions that Rusty and Ben asked...

When will we see the next set of F units announced?

When will the first run of switchers be announced?

When will the 2-8-0 return?

Will you build the E7?

When will we see cabooses announced?

Do you anticipate there being another 4 year delay between announcement and delivery of a ProtoSound equipped engine?

Would you consider building newly tooled passenger cars? The S market is seriously lacking in good options.

Will you make undecorated models like SHS did?

I told Andy E. that I thought re-releasing the SHS product line with nothing more than their ProtoSound electronics was a horrible idea. That meant that we could potentially have the same tooling reused for 30-40 years. Enough already... But he made it sound like they got a pretty good deal on the SHS line and just reissuing their stuff would be enough to be profitable. IF they were going to expand and invest in something new customers would have to buy up everything they put out. I told him that felt like we were being held hostage... 'Buy what I give you or you will never get anything new...' Oh well. Time will tell. At this rate, a whole LOT of time.

1) When will we see a catalog? 2) How about a Daylight GS4? 3) Are sales meeting expectations?

Better spell Andy's name correctly.........  

Will they be making the SW-1 switcher? 

Anymore questions for the MTH interview as I am going to prepare ,y list and submit them?

Now that MTH has the F3s out, do they plan on a RTR set anytime soon, or if not the F3s, is there a RTR set planned for the future? 

Ben

Is RTR Ready-to-Run?  That is a Lionel term so I won't ask that.  Starter set might work.

I think MTH will be ok with it...

Ben

 

Roundhouse Bill posted:

Is RTR Ready-to-Run?  That is a Lionel term so I won't ask that.  Starter set might work.

Ummm....

As far as I know "Ready-To-Run" is common domain. 

Has been ever since the first train set crawled out of the primordial soup.  Also referred to as RTR in ancient Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman scrolls. 

Rusty

 

When will MTH offer the Extended Vision Caboose?

When will MTH offer any new rolling stock?

Regards,

Swafford