Landsteiner posted:Andy, in his Notch6 podcast on the last catalog said that the shrinking market did not justify MTH making much if any new tooling. This plus the timing suggests that MTH isn't making a scale 4-4-0 for the Promontory anniversary to me. They are much too savvy marketers to announce this project in the Oct 2019 catalog when the event was in May 2019. If you want a three rail O gauge scale loco of these two locos, or one of them, you will likely be buying Lionel products.
Actually, I am surprised that Lionel didn’t think far enough ahead to have its offering available now when interest is at its highest. I can understand to some degree the new hybrid line since it is all special order, but the traditional 150th stuff (introduced in the Vol. 1 2019 catalog) should be in hobby shops right now, not late in the year.
