breezinup posted:
A few people send in an email, and MTH makes changes? But all those customers who wanted it the way it was pictured in the catalog don't call in because they think it will be made as pictured. But then MTH makes the units in a different version from what's cataloged. And these changes happen after people have preordered according to the manufacturer's rules, based on the catalog pictures. It's easy to see how upside down things can get when engines are changed after the catalog is out, and a manufacturer doesn't say anything about it.
Re: the B units, that's harmless. (Of course, if MTH was really making the event engines, they shouldn't have made additional A units or B units for any engine where matching A of B units don't currently exist.) But with respect to the Bs, it's an easy cure for those who want prototypical operation - the person can simply not order it the B unit. No such cure for the ditch lights. Not surprisingly, MTH only made one version of the engines - it would have been cost prohibitive to make and market two different versions of the same engine in multiple road names.
You KNOW only a few people "called in"???!
If you read my suggestion to MTH was make them both ways since the tooling existed.
AND as you stated the solution is "simple" if do don't want the ditch-light version DO NOT buy them. That would have been my solution if the they did not offer a ditch-light version.
Breezinup are you not a Lionel only guy?!
