The North Carolina Transportation Museum is having an event with the entire roster of Norfolk Southern heritage diesels on display. Last night they hosted a welcome event and Mike Wolf was in attendance. Several members of our club, Atlantic Coast S-Gaugers, got to talk to him personally.
The first new-tooling project he has planned for S will be to do the SD70 in all of the heritage paint schemes. Estimated time to production is 18 months. They will feature the MTH DCS control system. When asked about pricing he mentioned he wanted to "keep it cheap". What that means is anyone's guess... I always thought SHS products were a great value given the price, and if he's able to keep the price for this new product around what SHS had done that would be a win in my book.
Reissue-wise, his first locomotive will be the F-7... no info as to which old roadnames or if new roadnames will be done, or what the date would be. One of our members asked about when the flextrack would be available. While Mike didn't mention the flextrack specifically, he did indicate that starter sets would be available with the S-Trax track sometime early next year. Not sure if he's keeping the S-Trax name or not.
All in all, some good news. He made quite an investment buying out the SHS tooling and he seems to have a good plan as to where to go with it.
