What would you like to see from MTH in 2012

-The GE U25B in Maine Central paint scheme.
-MBTA Orange line subway.
-MBTA modern Green line LRV.
-Rail King modern Auto Racks.

1. Catenary
2. Scale 44 Tonner
3. Small British Steamer
4. Old British goods wagons (4 wheel)

The FF-2 ... that was canceled in 2011.
catenary

Early UP: Scale 40' PS-1 Box Car (6 Pack)

Easy, more DT&I GP38s, Ann Arbor GP35s and Ann Arbor 50' boxcars.

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Originally posted by Lyinel:
I'd like what I ordered in 2011....

Couldn't have said it better myself...

Forgot one:

GE E60 electric that was announced but cancelled some years ago.
My old Williams compressed version is not a bad 1970's model, and would be easily upgradeable, but it's missing several feet in length!

Less emphasis on eastern roads!

Scale 44-tonner and a boxcab like the one Ben has in his post.

Forgot one. PS3 version of AGEIR Box Cab with scale wheels and Kadee mounts. BTW, the CNW version should be Black or Yellow as opposed to green like the first issue.

Rerelease rudolph set. Make the ny giants nfl set. Giants superbowl cars. Compete for the licensed sets, so we can get mth quality trucks and couplers son trains kids touch. Use wireless drawbars on all releases. Ps3 upgrade kits.

Would like to see Reading and Northern #425 for my brother,
as far as I'm concerned anything scale with a sleeping kitty on it, can't have enough Chessie System

• Better quillable whistle and horn.
• Better remote.
• Ability to store record/playback- sessions on a computer. (Ability to edit the sessions would be really welcome.)
• The Dash-9 SantaFe I ordered in 2011
• The SantaFe Blue Goose set I ordered in 2011 (or was it 2010?)

Alex

This Detroit, Toledo & Ironton 50' Box Car scheme on the Waffle-Side Box Car.

Andrew

Falcon Service

Grand Trunk Western ACF Center Flow 2-Bay Covered Hoppers





Grand Trunk Western ACF Center Flow 3-bay Covered Hoppers





Andrew

Falcon Service

Hum, surprise me.
John P

Authentic steam locomotive chuff sounds including high speed!!!
No more rubber tires!!
No batteries in locomotive!
DCS reliability
Locomotive scale couplers that work every time or Kadee couplers
AIU for switch track only that can also operate Tortoise switch machine or be able to change..on..off...icons to directional arrows.
Well back to work cutting off traction tires and installing BCR's

Clem

I go along with one of Hot Water's requests: the USRA Heavy Mike. Lot's of different railroads used them, for sure they should do the Milwaukee Road. There were 100 of them on the roster and for over 20 years they were the heaviest things on the roster. Easy to do, since they could use the same frame, wheels, tender, etc. as a light Mike, be an easy addition to the roster.

In addition, I'd like to see them come back with the FM H10-44 that they offered some ten years, or so, ago. This time with Proto 3 and other updates. DO IT in Milwaukee Road, the first RR to buy them. Be a natural.

Two more possibles: The GE ES-2 Steeple Cab Electric switcher, especially now since they have Proto 3, very miniaturized electronics. AND, there would be a market for another electric that was really popular, the Milwaukee Road Westinghouse "Quill Motors".

Whatever, I think it's time that they start remembering the American train guys, the ones that got them to where they are today, and lay low on some of those foreign lokies.

Paul Fischer

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Originally posted by John Korling:
Less emphasis on eastern roads!

I would like to see the engine i ordered in 2009, the premier GE Hybrid demo ES44AC, cataloged in the 2009 Vol.2 catalog. I'm still waiting.

Dave

RAILKING SCALE NYC GP7 WITH BLACK/WHITE STRIPING ON PILOT,SCALE FUEL TANK,LIGHTNING PAINT THEME.PROTO 3
NYC RS-1 RAILKING-PROTO 3-LIGHTNING STIPES,SCALE FUEL TANK

I'd like to see them stop putting roadnames on equipment the real RRs didn't own

I'd like to see them make their electronics so they're drop-in/plug-in units that could easily be swapped out, leaving the basic conventional components in (a separate module) so that without the PS2 electronics (in case they burn out) the engine could be run conventionally simply by unplugging the PS2/3 stuff.

I'd like to see them either make more RailKing Imperial engines or relegate some of the older Premier engines to the RK Imperial line, along with the lower prices.

ANYTHING CORRECT FOR SEABOARD AIR LINE

My Nickel Plate Rail King Alco PA's I ordered in 2010.

* Rail King scale NKP GP 7 or SD 9
* Also wouldn't mind the NYC/Cleveland Union Terminal Geep that Ratpak has been asking for.

For about 4th year runing,
E-7 ABA with true scale trucks,
SD-7 & 9's Complete retooling, scale acurate trucks,
Scale Electro controlled Couplers, with retro kit.
New Designation 20-XXXXX-4 Hi Rail Version 3rail wheels, fixed pilots, eltro fired scale coupler, right out of the BOX.
Simple, RWDeano

In Missouri Pacific's blue/gray,

1. Baldwin Baby Face cab units

2. F-7's in MoPac, Texas & Pacific, Kansas,Oklahoma & Gulf (all wore same scheme)

3. RS3's MoPac, Missouri & Illinois (same MP blue/gray scheme)

4. FA


Dan

reliable realtrax turnouts for carpet use

O Tinplate Blue Comet

Frisco DDA40X............with all metal wheels and all wheels flanged!!!

http://ogaugerr.infopop.cc/gro...D4D501301AAB8204.gif

I would love mth to make a seaboard coast line sd45.Or a seaboard air line m2 mountain with the vanderbuilt oil tender.Or a 4-6-2 that they used in frieght and passngers trains.

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Originally posted by Bob Delbridge:
I'd like to see them stop putting roadnames on equipment the real RRs didn't own

I'd like to see them make their electronics so they're drop-in/plug-in units that could easily be swapped out, leaving the basic conventional components in (a separate module) so that without the PS2 electronics (in case they burn out) the engine could be run conventionally simply by unplugging the PS2/3 stuff.

I'd like to see them either make more RailKing Imperial engines or relegate some of the older Premier engines to the RK Imperial line, along with the lower prices.

ANYTHING CORRECT FOR SEABOARD AIR LINE

Here goes:
I agree with more Imperial steam engines and Railking Diesels (RK Scale?) with more detail.
Imperial brand brought to streamline passenger cars and heavyweight pass.cars.
-for a diner that looks like a diner, i.e. has more detail such as kitchen service door and smaller windows for the galley end of the car,
-for fluting above as well as below streamliner passenger cars, also all smooth sides above and below streamline passenger cars.
-for heavyweights I am hoping for partially rounded roofs similar to the Premier heavyweights.
-also, I agree with the request for LED lighting already installed by the mfr.

Sigh,anyway I am grateful that nowdays there is more offered in O gauge than there used to be.

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Originally posted by Bob Delbridge:
I'd like to see them stop putting roadnames on equipment the real RRs didn't own

I doubt that's gonna happen... Fantasy seems to sell.

quote:

I'd like to see them make their electronics so they're drop-in/plug-in units that could easily be swapped out, leaving the basic conventional components in (a separate module) so that without the PS2 electronics (in case they burn out) the engine could be run conventionally simply by unplugging the PS2/3 stuff.

That's called DCC...

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I'd like to see them either make more RailKing Imperial engines or relegate some of the older Premier engines to the RK Imperial line, along with the lower prices.

ANYTHING CORRECT FOR SEABOARD AIR LINE

I think any further downgrading of Premire's to RailKing will not see signifcantly lower prices because of rising production costs in general.

Rusty

New accessories like the car wash, diner, etc. but something all new.

I'm a fan of the 6464 series of boxcars that MTH made several of a numbers of years ago. When my father and I collected postwar Lionel we had all of them, so buying the MTH versions, in the nice RK 40' style had appeal to me. Unfortunately, MTH didn't make all of them. So....

I'd like to see MTH make the remaining 6464's made, including the tuscan M&StL. As a tie in, I'd also like to see MTH offer a RailKing RTR M&StL GP-9 set and have as part of the set the green/gold M&StL 6464 boxcar.

Also still waiting for the Premier Wabash F-7 A-B-A set.

As was mentioned before
DCS remote with more than two digit id's for engines
DCS tiu with more than 5 numbers for individual use without supermode
or tiu's with six instead of four input/outputs
tinplate o gauge trolley
PS 3 upgrades and in a more timely fashion
Fantasy schemes are fine as long as not outlandish. Easier and cheaper to buy than to buy and have to repaint. Not everyone is a scale rivet counter

Larry S

A sound set for the Milwaukee Road Bi-Polar with the correct high-pitched whistle sound rather than a horn.

Undecorated locomotives and rolling stock.

I Forgot-e7 aa sets with option to buy b unit separately like mth use to sell
aba sets.
e7's in nyc,southern and texas special.

A realtrax turntable that works with DCS
A smaller articulated (like the size of the USRA 2-6-6-2s lionel just made)
There's a few re-releases I'd be pleased to see as well.

I'd like some new traction equipment. Like an early 1900s big interurban

Steaming whistle on Premier engines like on RK One Gauge triplex


As mentioned before, a better remote with a charging base like a phone.

A Premier C&O Yellowbelly Hudson.

Slightly smaller Realtrax switch machines that fit between 5" parallel track.

Premier Cincinatian streamlined B&O 4-6-2 Pacific steamer
http://www.cincinnativiews.net/the_cincinnatian.htm