Will Ebbert posted:As much as I'd like to see MTH start offering 21" cars I think Lionel doing so solidifies MTH's reasoning to stick with 18". They have a very consistent, high quality product that appeals to a lot of people.
Well yeah, because that's the biggest scale looking passenger car that MTH offered for the last 20+ years. They are affordable to most people that want a somewhat 'scale" looking train. They are also better than anything Lionel offered up and till the 21'' in my opinion and many others will agree. The only nice looking "scale" passenger cars Lionel made were their heavyweights but for the scale modeler they are still too short in length. I personally do not like any of Lionel 18' passenger cars they made and offered to match their scale engines.
If MTH started their own 21'' line. I'm sure more and more people will start buying those over the 18'' passenger cars.
I am very open minded person when it comes to these companies, I don't swing left or right. I like things they offer/do and disagree with things they do and don't do. I don't favor one over another.
