From the S-Trains Yahoo board, by Tom Hawley, a dealer of S at train shows:
"While at the National Train Show this past weekend I had a nice talk with Mr
Rich Foster of MTH's sales dept. The first thing they hope to get out the
door, in 2013, will be track. Then some freight cars, then some
locomotives. The first locos will be the F3 & F7s because they can fit
their electronic boards in those. The SW & NW locos will require some study
to adapt them to MTH electronics.
The plan is to install the same electronics in our S locomotives that they
use in their O gauge products. It can be run by their DCS or by the NMRA's
DCC. I asked if they might sell them without the DCS/DCC capability, just
plain DC. He said it was possible, but not likely. They tried it in O
gauge but found that when people became familiar with their DCS/DCC, they
liked it, and MTH found themselves with unsold non-DCS/DCC."
Just passing it on...
Rusty
