Finally Shipping From MTH

I'm in for both IC TOFCs.  

Ben 

I picked up another 4 hoppers of CN with this sale.  I have quite a few now and they look good behind my CP ES44s. 

Ro does not have the TOFCs listed yet. 

Ben

banjoflyer posted:

I noticed that while all eight TOFC combinations offered in the original brochure were offered with scale wheels only the PFE set has been delivered with the scale wheels as well as hi-rail wheels. Maybe the rest are on the next boat. Those IC cars look mighty nice.

 

 

 

Well, I've got the pair of scale wheel IC's on order. 

We'll see...

Rusty

Speaking of the TOFC, does anyone know what the 2015 MTH Collectors Club car was for S-gauge? I'm thinking it was a TOFC but I don't recall. Whatever it was I never received it. The last club car I received was the one for 2014 (Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Ore Car). If it's a TOFC perhaps it will be on its way soon.

Dean

A C&NW TOFC.

Thanks.  Has anyone received theirs yet?

Quick Casey received his a couple of weeks ago:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/mthmrrc-2015-car

I heard floating around on the web that the cars were coming in two shipments.

Rusty

OK, I called MTH and in fact they shipped my car out yesterday, so I should have it by Monday.  They said the original shipment received only had about 20% of what they ordered, but the remainder have now been received, so everyone else who is still waiting on this car should get theirs soon.  Thanks for all the info!

Dean 

Got my C&NW club car yesterday. The decking, as stated elsewhere is now the same color as the chassis and the trailer stand needs to be assembled by the user. The new trailers are quite longer and slightly higher than the original SHS offerings. Nice paint.

Rich

I got my club car this Saturday as well. Its nice, but I have to admit I didn't look that closely to see that the trailer stand needs to be assembled. Are there separate loose parts in the box for that? I didn't notice any, but I wasn't looking for them so I may have missed them. I'll have to check tonight.

Dean

Dean,

The stand is in a small pkg along with a pkg of screws for coupler pockets.

BANJOFLYER,

MTH C&NW trailer...8 7/16 Long...1 1/2 wide....1 9/16 tall from top of trailer to bottom of tire.

Rich

There were discussions on the Yahoo S-Scale board some years ago about the Railking trailers being S Scale or darn close to it to be good enuf.

I can see MTH saving a buck or two using something already in their tooling inventory rather than reworking (if needed) the SHS tooling to fit their process.

Found this thanks to our friend, Mr. Google:

Rusty

Why would Charles Ro just not stock them and list them on their web site? The have all the other MTH S gauge rolling stock.  

I did a "40' trailer" search on MTHs website, about 150 trailers displayed, there are a lot of cool trailers that have made over the years.  

Ben 

Mark,

Kind of what I figured for the trailer as far a using the O mold.

Typing is a liability.

Thanks, Rich

According to Charlie Nassau, looks like the remainder of the TOFC's are shipping by May 31st.

Rusty

FWIW: 45' trailers started coming into use in the US in mid 70's. So, seeing a 1950's paint scheme on a 45' trailer makes it a fantasy item. Don't know if that's important to one's scheme of things, but may be for some.

laming posted:

FWIW: 45' trailers started coming into use in the US in mid 70's. So, seeing a 1950's paint scheme on a 45' trailer makes it a fantasy item. Don't know if that's important to one's scheme of things, but may be for some.

Personally, I would have preferred MTH use the old SHS trailers, but it's a brave new world.  Kinda falls under the heading of "it'll havta do..."

Rusty

I really, really like the old SHS ones and have picked up several from the "bay" when they pop up (starved market IMO).

But I must give MTH kudos for not just re-issueing previous stuff only.  Although, I have to say that the SHS stuff goes quickly on the bay when someone does put it out there.   Yeah, I know that it is 1 item being grabbed by one of several people and MTH/Lionel needs to build many.  Still, I think it is a bit of an untapped market.  Build some based on demand/interest (57' reefers hint, hint) and some based on "build it and they will come" (57' reefers hint, hint).  Only way we will grow the scale.   Again just IMHO.

Rusty is right, I did not know about natty boy (bo??) either.  I would think a Portilio's/Vienna Beef car would do quite well in the Chicagoland area, but people might scratch their heads in Baltimore.  

Ben

I was introduced to Natty Boh here as well. BTW, it's a pretty decent beer. The issue for future items would be securing permission to use the artwork. That is one thing I would not hold my breath for.

IF someone got permission to do this again, you could easily count on sell-out preorders. Probably within hours. Securing permission to use brand marketing artwork is easier said than done. I was humbled just trying to do a Scrapple car.

Mark, I messed up, I was reading the posts from email notifications for this thread and the SFest thread.  When I came on the forum to reply I was not paying attention. 

Sorry. 

Ben 

To make up for my off topic post, how about an on topic one...my two IC cars showed up today. I would agree that it would have been nice if the wood deck was not black.  But still very nice overall...

Ben

Mark

I thought the same thing, but wouldn't the PFE trailer be refrigerated?

Ben

Mark

Blew my justification to avoid the PFE TOFC out of the water...thanks.

Ben

Mark, I did see that, one of the PFE car numbers is now "in stock", the other is listed as "on back order". I ordered both, so we will see what happens.  

Ben

I know it's kinda off subject, but since we are talking semi trailers, just wanted to bring up road railers. I have been thinking of taking the 53' van trailers that DCP makes, and actually building a triple crown road railer set up. I see it in HO and seems like it would be fairly easy to do. Anyone else consider this as an option to a modern layout?