loco-dan has it right. Not sure about there being a lot of Mikados offered by the
BIG TWO. I could not get excited about old Williams because most of it was a "repro"
that somebody above is asking for...When MTH was ramping up, there was new and
different, and Lionel was still repros, then K-Line came along and there was a two
truck Shay, a suburban tank engine, aluminum passenger cars, etc. (true, they did
do some repros, but they did some innovations), now Lionel does offer more than
repros, but both seem reluctant to get away from the big buck sellers and too often
duplicate each other. Weirdly, that was my complaint when I was looking for Lionel-
compatible in the 1980's, and almost never bought actual Lionel....repros...thought we had gotten away from that. There have been many threads on here asking for new and different...I guess it doesn't sell. Wish I was a better kit basher/scratch builder
of locomotives. I sure hope what is described above is not where Bachmann now is
with Williams.....
