Dennis posted:This subject has come up before and I posted that I thought the stuff of that era was crap. The trains generally had nice paint jobs and looked great but the two engines I bought my son couldn't pull there own shadow. They wobbled down the track like a duck once you helped them get moving. The trucks had seams in them like they came out of a mold. That killed what little interest my son had in model trains. Myself, I waited until MTH came out with some real quality stuff in the late 90s before I got back in the hobby.
Dennis
My experience with MPC was quite different. Yes, there were problems here and there, but some nice trains were produced and when I got back into the hobby in 1986, I bought up a lot of them. With few exceptions, they looked good and ran well for me.
I am a “toy train guy,” in no way a “Hi-rail enthusiast.” Perhaps our different expectations account for our difference of opinion.
(And they sure were very reasonably priced, too!)
