Someone asked Mike Wolf at the TCA Open House Museum Presentation when to expect the S Diesels and his response was April. He said the problem was shrinking the PCB down and mentioned the same problem for the O-Gauge 44-Tonner. But Andy Edleman a few weeks ago at the I-Hobby Show mentioned that the S Diesels were now into production.
I asked on Facebook about this and the response was that the F-3`s are going to be built in March with an April delivery. Also MTH was not able to include the Remote Coupler feature in these.
Hmmm. I seem to remember from somewhere that the remote coupler was one of the things holding up the F's. Probably would require too much modification the SHS chassis.
Wasn't anything I personally was particularly interested in anyway being I'll be running them in a scale environment w/Kadees on DCC or conventional.
Maybe when they design an S loco from the ground up for folks who would like this feature.
Oh, well. At least the delays have enabled me to squirrel away the cash to buy them.
Rusty
