@CNJ #1601 posted:Jonathan, I agree with your assessment. Their Master 3-rail locomotives (when they were able to get them produced and shipped) were ahead of their time (and certainly ahead of MTH & Lionel) in terms of level of detail.
My biggest complaint is the sound package...both quality and variety. RailSounds was fine back when Atlas was getting started with "O" locomotives. However, selling $400-500++ diesels still equipped with very generic and very dated RailSounds packages (e.g. 4 "notches" of prime mover sounds instead of 8) just doesn't cut it today. This deal with MTH--and (hopefully) the ability to use the wide variety of PS3 diesel sound packages--would immediately eliminate that issue...at least for me anyway.
I’m also assuming that the dcs license will be substantially cheaper than lionels tmcc. The Lionel brand carries a lot of weight, while mth is no where near as well known (think outside the hobby, not on this forum) and does not carry the premium name recognition. What this leads to price wise, I don’t know but I’m very cautiously optimistic.
