In their 'New Items for 2023' Lenz has announced new production of the former MTH European 'gondolas' and tank cars; no pricing or delivery dates are shown. There is quite a variety of owner names and paint schemes, most new, but some "the same" as MTH production. All 2R of course; how much commonality with the MTH products 'under the floor' remains to be seen, in case 3Rers are thinking of conversions by parts swapping.
SZ
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Am I the only person who does not know what/who Lenz is?
Perhaps you could expand on this.
Not sure what/who Lenz is either @RoyBoy but aren't 2r to 3r conversions tricky because of minimum radius and chassis width?
It would be cool if I'm wrong. I think a lot of European trains are cool!
Google answered all the above questions in a few seconds. Much faster than posting here and waiting for a response.
https://www.lenz-elektronik.de...motiven/mth-line.php
Stu
Eh, I'm not in much of a hurry. And I like interacting with some of the people here 
Pretty cool stuff though! I'm always happy to see tooling avoid neglect!
Ich sprecken night Deutche!
Sehr Gut!
The website allows you to choose English if one did not notice 
. Presumably DCC and other modifications. Price about 1300 Euros.
@Landsteiner posted:The website allows you to choose English if one did not notice
It does?? I could not find it.
@RoyBoy posted:Ich sprecken night Deutche!
You can only speak German during night time ?
@RoyBoy posted:Ich sprecken night Deutche!
Let google do it for you.
Too bad they won't make stuff in 3-rail.
@Mallard4468 posted:Too bad they won't make stuff in 3-rail.
That would be awesome. Looks like they have some cool products!
@Arthur posted:You can only speak German during night time ?
Nacht vs. nicht is an easy mistake to make.
But I think that there's a bigger challenge here.
To me model trains are model trains no matter which country they're made in. Perhaps I'm wrong though. Apparently German trains and their hobby sites don't deserve our attention or respect.
Lenz has been in business for many, many years and is considered a professional operation with quality products, regardless of whether their website is in German, or English, or both.
I learned that here on the forum years ago.
BTW - Who they are, and what significance they have to 'O', is very easy to research. Type 'Lenz' in the forum Search box and you'll get 11-1/2 pages of hits going back over 10 years.
Mike
Wonder if MTH still has the European Steam Locomotive tooling ? Would sue like to see another run of those, have one but sorry I didn't purchase others at the time.
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