Jim Rawlings posted:As noted above, MTH owns and retains all the tinplate tooling. Renewal of the licensing agreement with L was simply not economically feasible or justifiable at this stage. No decision has been made as to whether copies of the new 2018-19 catalog will be printed for distribution at the upcoming York or for mailing to dealers. For now, best to print out and retain the online copy. Also keep in mind that MTH is not restricted from offering tinplate items down the road under the MTH logo. All depends on whether the business model can justify future offerings. Those of us who truly enjoy and collect the tinplate trains would would be quite pleased to see future offerings....but there has to be a perceivable demand to justify production.
Unless it was updated between when you read the release and when I read the release, it specifically says no printed version will be produced. (Craig's link without the "a" on the end)
-Dave
