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I wish they would make Edsels in hard top or sedans instead of convertibles with the top down on a auto loader. 
Originally Posted by Russell:

As much as I'm tempted, I really can't justify another Big Boy.

The Galloping Goose is a strong pull, We will see about that one, I want to know what sound set it has.

The 2 Flatcars, Edsels and '50 pickups, gotta grab those.

Beyond that, not much to see.

If I get around to it, I might get the single stripe Grande RPO on P. 97.....did look

at the DT&I ore car (did the DT&I have those?...well, it did down at Southern Ohio

mines in its past, but that might have been in the Ohio Southern era before a group of little roads merged into the DT&I), and at the single stripe D&RGW  PA's, but I am holding out for the pre-WWII, pre-bumble bee black diesels and heavy weight cars, which nobody has made.  The Grande RPO car and the 2 car baggage/coach combination on that page could represent a Yampa Valley Mail configuration...several other road RPO's are offered, but none for MoPac, C,RI,&P, or Burlington or its subsidiaries that I could jump on...

Does anybody know for sure if the European 2-3-1 (Chapelon) is 1:43.5 or 1:48 scale?

On page 104, it's listed as 1:43.5 scale.  However, this appears to be an updated (PS-3, etc) version of the Premier 2-3-1 in the 2009 catalog, which is listed there as 1:48 scale.   Both 2009 and this latest listing are given as the exactly same length (23.25 inches). 

 

The 10% difference is scale is important to me: I have the 2-4-1 from the last year and while a lovely loco to look at when by itself, it just does not look right around 1:48 locos.  Even though, with the scale difference, it is still smaller than say the ATSF Northern 3759, it looks wrong - its 80 inch drivers are 88 inch es at 1:48, the cab is too big, etc. Just slightly doesn't fit on the layout next to all my scale locos.

Originally Posted by Allan Miller:
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:

Does anybody know for sure if the European 2-3-1 (Chapelon) is 1:43.5 or 1:48 scale?

 

You might try asking the question on the MTH Facebook page.  Answers to a lot of questions tend to be posted there since they keep up with that page on a frequent basis.

I've submitted the question.  No answer so far, but I will post whatever I get. 

 

I've never seen the MTh model up close, but after checking I'm 80% certain it is 1:43.5.   In Chapelon, Genius of French Steam, the drawings of the Etat 2-3-1 class show them to have been about 82-83 feet including tender.  The MTH model's advertised length of 23.25 inches works out to 84 feet at 1:43.5 (I suspect it is a very scale model with a slightly longer loco-tender gap that in reality).  At 1:48, the 23.25 inches works out to 93 feet, and while 2-3-1s no doubt varied in length a bit over the years, particularly after 1930 when Chapelon modified them, they never approached anything like 90 feet - only the 2-4-1s were that big.

I had a need for steam! So I ordered the Southern Pacific Lines GS-4 and the 5 car set plus the 2 add-on cars.

Also, NS Premier Heritage NYC and Pennsy and matching Cabooses. (The NYC Caboose is also going to go great with my NYC FT.)  

Looking at the Premier Pennsy GG-1, but have not convinced myself  as of yet.

Originally Posted by Charlienassau:

Our MTH 2013 Volume 1 pre ordering pricing is now on our website. we will be taking preorders now through November 29th.

 

www.nassauhobby.com


CN:

   You might want to take a quick glance through all the pages.  Can one REALLY preorder any of the OCEM passenger car sets for just $54.00 ?  If so, I'll take three of each, scale wheels please.   There are some other 'slipped a digit, I think' errors there, too.

 

Best, SZ

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Originally Posted by SPSF:

Not going to purchase a "Daylight" SD45 one of a kind, should have done the over 300 Red / Gray SD45's.

Should fix the "S" Scale Fuel tank on the Scaleking FP45 before doing a 3rd release.

Agreed regarding the Daylight SD45 (technically it would be an SD44R).  I think it may be due to their incorrect first attempt using the SD40-2 back in the 90's.

 

One glaring error I noticed in the catalog picture is that it shows that it's a brake wheel version of the SD45, with the brake wheel on the far end of the long hood on the engineer's side.  The prototype 7399 actually had a brake lever (like the SD45T-2) and was mounted on the conductor side on the short hood.  The prototype SD45s were made both ways during its production run, so I wonder if MTH made the tooling modular so it can be done both ways on this model.

Here is what I have coming.

 


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