Great looking catalog.It's mostly re-runs but good re-runs. I'm going to pre order a couple each of the new ATSF 2900's and C&O 4-8-4's in new cab #'s. RK Mopac bay window caboose.
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Nothing. Essentially a reprint from last year and the RTR catalog on the Railking Side.
Was hoping for a LIRR G5 with the standard lettering, not Sunrise Special. Holding out hope that Nassau Hobby annonces one later on today.
Maybe one of the Greenbriers.
A C&O Greenbrier for sure.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I FINALLY GOT MY NORTHERN PACIFIC SD45!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN AFTER ALL!!!! 
Other items I am getting include GN and Milwaukee DD PS-1 box. GN and SP & S rolling stock. MRL hi cube and 2 bay centerflow.
I hit the jackpot with this catalog.
David
Where in the h@ll are the 44 tonners?? Did I miss something? I am VERY disappointed.
Nothing for me this time around.
Its a bummer, nothing
Love the G5 but hate the price. Probably would have bit had it included whistle steam. Not much else of interest.
Joe
Nada, out of train capital....LOL
Nothing really grabbed my attention. I wasn't specifically looking for something, but figured it would "find me" but just kind of had an overall "ehh" feeling.
HELP.....cant find the link help......2016 vol 2
john f penca jr posted:HELP.....cant find the link help......2016 vol 2
Some of the items that immediately caught my eye:
the EMD SD60s, including a non-powered unit
the NS AC4400CW with the blue nose
NS Operation Lifesaver Dash 9s
the CSX AC440CW with the small "heritage" badge up front
another run of CN High Cube boxcars
four new 8k tank cars
Overall, I'm pretty happy. the hard part will be narrowing down the choices!
Jim S posted:Where in the h@ll are the 44 tonners?? Did I miss something? I am VERY disappointed.
Nothing for me this time around.
I'd imagine they want to deliver the first run and see how they come out before cataloging more.
None for me. Did not see anything new or exciting. Same stuff just rerun with different road names.
Haven't seen brand new items from MTH in a while it seems, Euro seems to be getting more attention.
How about a Superliner passenger set instead of the same old ones every catalog they just keep rerunning with different names.
Are the RK NYC E -units actually scale, is this a misprint?
First impressions:
- 160 pages: Wow.
- It all looks like really, really nice stuff.
- Who's going to buy it all?
In all seriousness concerning the interplay of Points 1 and 3, this is a TON of trains. Can the current O Gauge market absorb all these offerings? Or am I misjudging everyone's capacity to continue to fill closets and shelves?
As just one example, other than the guy who is fastidiously purchasing "one of each" of O Scale Alaska RR items, who among us will buy (or has bought) the Alaska RR 4-6-2 Pacific shown on Page 11 of the catalog? I could be way off base, but I have to wonder if MTH will sell even 50 of these. Am I way off base?
I mean no criticism of anyone -- especially MTH -- in these comments. I'm just wondering out loud who buys all this stuff.
On the flip side, I love, love, love the C&NW engine and consist shown on Pages 42-43 and I have no particular connection to metropolitan Chicago. Maybe there are many like me for each item in the catalog. As the Russian expression goes, "There's a fish for every hook."
Thoughts?
Steven J. Serenska
Count me as curious as well regarding the lack of new 44 ton liveries. Oh well.
The Christmas Engine caught my eye, frankly not too much else but in fairness I have more than I possibly need at the moment (except of course a Kodachrome Scheme - but that appears to be something MTH has no interest in producing again).
Regardless, it is always fun to thumb through a new catalog - I look forward to getting my hands on the hard copy.
Paul
Nothing!
That is one underwhelming catalog.
George
My wallet is safe. Last new O scale loco/car item I bought was about 3 years ago....and $1600 Challengers and $70 box cars will keep it that way.
The Family Lines GP-38 would be nice....but not at $500........
sorry....
Serenska posted:First impressions:
- 160 pages: Wow.
- It all looks like really, really nice stuff.
- Who's going to buy it all?
In all seriousness concerning the interplay of Points 1 and 3, this is a TON of trains. Can the current O Gauge market absorb all these offerings? Or am I misjudging everyone's capacity to continue to fill closets and shelves?
As just one example, other than the guy who is fastidiously purchasing "one of each" of O Scale Alaska RR items, who among us will buy (or has bought) the Alaska RR 4-6-2 Pacific shown on Page 11 of the catalog? I could be way off base, but I have to wonder if MTH will sell even 50 of these. Am I way off base?
I mean no criticism of anyone -- especially MTH -- in these comments. I'm just wondering out loud who buys all this stuff.
On the flip side, I love, love, love the C&NW engine and consist shown on Pages 42-43 and I have no particular connection to metropolitan Chicago. Maybe there are many like me for each item in the catalog. As the Russian expression goes, "There's a fish for every hook."
Thoughts?
Steven J. Serenska
I've sat out on the last 5 MTH catalogs. I think we're at the point in the "golden era of hirail scale trains" where we're not going to see much new tooling. It's expensive and risky. There are countless items that have not been offered and I can think of at least a dozen important and many extant large steam locomotives that haven't been made by anyone that may never see production except by a "boutique builder" like 3rd rail. The two large steam locomotive types I'm going to pre-order as some haven't been offered since the late 90's if I am correct,the Santa Fe 2900 was offered in 2903,2912 and 2924. I'm going to order 2926 and 2928. The C&O was offered in 2000 as #614 and later in a set as 611 or 613 (I've never found these one and I'm not even sure they were made). I'll order the new #602.
Contemplating the PRR G-5 and a Camelback.....Greg
SD45 - NOT.
I'm sorry but the Erie Lackawanna as road number 1700 is Not acceptable as a Premier line model as the Real locomotive is an SD45-2, not the same.
Pennsylvania SD45 AGAIN?!?!
Once again No SOUTHERN PACIFIC SD45. OMG, What a waste of Tooling 
I like the Veteran's and First Responder's on the Rail King side!
Probably the Christmas engine and caboose set.
Peter
Thank you all for the link i was getting frantic ...i want my mth !!!
Definitely pre-ordering the NS Dash 9 OLS 25 year and NS AC4400 locos. On the fence about the NS GP38
- DT&I Bicentennial GP38-2
- CSX B&O 185th Anniversary Caboose (way off, but I like it)
zippo.
the European stuff looks nice, but too expensive for me to justify.
The Greenbrier, the green one that currently sits at the C&O Historical Society about 40 miles north of Roanoke. Lots of people are upset at the green paint scheme, however it does look nice. I like several of the NS special engines (911). The ScaleKing Blue N&W's are different numbers from the Premier I could be talked into another set. The numbers shown are the same as the Premier.
Scott Smith
SandJam posted:... How about a Superliner passenger set instead of the same old ones every catalog they just keep rerunning with different names.
I was hoping that MTH might be the company to produce the RockyMountaineer passenger train in its new, gorgeous paint scheme with high-level dome cars. MTH has ventured into this arena in prior years, but another catalog has come and gone without the new paint scheme. 
But when we look at the catalog pages featuring passenger car sets, there's yet another re-issue of Union Pacific cars. 
Seems MTH can't publish a catalog without a UP passenger car set in it! Must be popular sellers.
My wallet is pretty safe this time. Maybe the Norfolk Southern blue-nose Premier Diesel. But I think that's it.
David
Anyone know what happened to the 44 tonners ??
I like the Spirit of 76 and the Honoring Veterans engines.
I can honestly say that nothing in this catalog is of interest to me.
From some of these comments, you'd think every catalog should be nothing but new tooling. And regarding existing models in new road names, some of us have been waiting quite awhile for a specific product in our road names. As a kid who spent time around St. Louis with my parents, I'm thrilled to see the NYC E-units, N&W passenger train in blue, and the Illinois Terminal Alco. I also needed that SP&S caboose. So thanks MTH!
I'll be lengthening some trains with a few cars, but I'm not sure that there's any big ticket items in there that I need. One can only own so many modern GEs. I would have probably sprung for a plain old, boring NS Horsehead Dash 9, but alas, there's 4 NS diesels in the catalog and they're all "special" paint jobs.
I'm wondering what happened to the Insta-train 6 car sets?
I was hoping for a Proto3 blue comet. But I will definitely be getting some of the Amtrak bi levels to go with my atlas aem-7s
SandJam posted:
Haven't seen brand new items from MTH in a while it seems, Euro seems to be getting more attention.
There's nothing new on the Euro side, either.
Rusty
