From Don Thompson, co-owner of the former S-Helper Service....
"For those who do not know the story when MTH finally announced this release, it was special too me as it is a car I picked out, designed and reviewed the tooling, but, we never had the chance to produce. When I saw all the roads (being offered by MTH) had peaked ends, I went to the tooling inventory that MTH transferred from our builder Sanda Kan. The flat end tooling was missing. I can only assume it was not returned to our tool bin after the tooling test shots. As I think of it, I would rather the flat end go missing as we made over 25,000+ cars with that (flat) end. Other than that, I think the cars look great. I suspect they used the artwork I prepared a decade ago, they did change the N&W number from 22100 to 22109. I wonder why? I liked our blackened wheelsets better, but maybe rust paint will stick better to this coating."
