Hi DJ. I got my R-33s redbirds and had a chance to give them a run last night. These are my first MTH PS 3.0 subways (i have almost all of the PS1s and 2s). I have to say that i'm a little disappointed in MTH's quality control. All of the 4 car set and the 2 add ons have a slight paint defect around the rim of the round marker light next to the express or local sign. It was nothing that a little black touch up marker couldn't fix, but C'mon MTH. Second, two of my interior lights on the powered car were not working. This required me to remove the shell and spend about 20 minutes repositioning the bulbs to get them working. I was surprised that after all of these years, MTH is pretty much using the same crappy lighting system. What happened to the LED interior lighting and LED individually lit number boards as advertised in the catalog? I guess they decided to save some money and reuse this crappy lighting system. Another thing that all of you buyers of these cars should heed - the tinfoil heat shield attached to the interior roof of the engine car is razor thin and completely inadequate to prevent roof damage from a mispositioned bulb. You need to apply some better quality metallic silver tape to the interior roof if you want to avoid melting or bubbling. My roof was way to hot after just a few trolley mode runs with all cars. also, this is the first subway where a window fell off on the first day! it usually takes a year or so for them to loosen. Overall, i'm glad i got this set (its the same train i took from woodside into manhattan every day back in the 80's and it was a must buy for me), however, MTH needs to improve their game. The quality of the original r-21 redbirds is far superior.
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