I have this fine locomotive. It was my 1st "modern" O-gauge locomotive. After getting an old Marx set from Goodwill for my son, and spending time cleaning it and getting it running, I got a taste for O. So I got on ebay and starting looking for some of my favorite locomotives to see what was out there. This one popped up, and at a couple hundred, I bought it. It was late 2007 I think, and MTH just had released passenger cars, so I bought a set too and now I had an 11 foot long train. It's seen it's fair share of bumps and bruises. My son tripped and fell on it, repairs were required (Broke a side rod, and broke the truck mounts off of the tender frame. MTH had the rod, but not the tender frame, so I used long screws and a nut.), my nephew raced it off of the track onto the tile floor, so it's got a dent from where it hit and slid. I ran it with a weak battery and got it in deselect mode, requiring a new chip from MTH (After it sat for 2 years because my local MTH store told me MTH no long made or had chips for it. But they'd love to upgrade it to PS2 for me.). And as you can see, I've upgraded the wheel set to get the disk wheels I like better. Just remember, it is now known as 30-1113-1 by MTH if you need parts.
