While I am glad to see them shipping product, I'm not sure what the excitement is all about honestly. Is this not the same exact tooling that has been available for years? I'm pretty sure you can find them any day of the week on eBay.
Don't get me wrong I'm glad to see MTH getting up to speed, but I must be a little harder to please. I wouldn't refer to a rerun of existing tooling as a "home run". That's just me though...
The tooling could have just as easy gone off to tooling Val-Halla, or Don Thompson using it as ballast for his boat.
Any tangible, hold-it-in-your-hands S product is good news. The drought's been way too long. Sure, you can pick up pre-owned SHS on ebay or elsewhere, but that's not growth, that's stagnation.
The journey of a 1000 trains begins with one freight car.
Rusty
I'm glad you see it that way. If you are going to stay in S for the long term that is a very positive outlook. I hope a lot of people feel the same way, because if MTH doesn't sell a boat load of these SHS reruns it will be a very long time before any new tooling sees the light of day.
I understand reusing the tooling you already have. That's low hanging fruit from a business standpoint. But what if they don't sell? What then?
I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Hopefully they all sell very well and it is a moot point.
