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Reply to "How do you think MTH trains changed the O gauge market?"

jeff55 posted:

It absolutely got me into O gauge. My father in law worked for Electro Motive after the war and took me to the La Grange plant for I believe their 75th anniversary in the mid 90's. While there they had a O Gauge layout setup and I was very impressed with the detail of these locomotives. I asked and they told MTH, never heard of them. Like the original post I too was a HO guy until the eyes started fading but didn't think much of Lionel due to the non scale size. I was instantly hooked on O gauge. Went to my local hobby shop and started buying MTH, until the fall of 1999 and wham, out of nowhere Lionel comes out with the Allegheny, then by Christmas the Big Boy. Wow! Scale stuff with command control from Lionel!  So, to sum it up if MTH was not around I don't believe Lionel would have introduced those models, which we all now enjoy.

 

 

 

You are right they would have kept pumping out.Hudsons FT units switch locomotives and the little 4-4-2.Mth came along with a 2-8-0,DASH 8 SD 40-2.Yea Mth came along with the railking bigboys.Trains lionel did not make.So lionel had to step it up.

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