Woo hoo! I get the 4 car and 2 car tomorrow. I might be getting the passenger car from the other baggage/passenger car set as well!
@peter allen 072518 - Did you notice that the passenger cars have no extra weight...like many of the older Madison coaches are weighted and not by any small amount? I did feel like the Madison passenger cars also had more refined detail than these particular B&O passengers...with the only outsanding detail was the window shades and doors open (albeit they tend not to mate well with shell). I also believe there is some missing steps but I haven't confirmed that as of yet.
Anthony
@A. Wells posted:@peter allen 072518 - Did you notice that the passenger cars have no extra weight...like many of the older Madison coaches are weighted and not by any small amount? I did feel like the Madison passenger cars also had more refined detail than these particular B&O passengers...with the only outsanding detail was the window shades and doors open (albeit they tend not to mate well with shell). I also believe there is some missing steps but I haven't confirmed that as of yet.
Anthony
The newest MTH Madison sets appear to now have new style HO size figures in them. Do your cars have the older figures inside? If not, what size?
Saw this thread and did not know this sharp looking RPO was made. I have the Lionel B&O set but gave this some thought as sharp looking.
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@BobbyD posted:The newest MTH Madison sets appear to now have new style HO size figures in them. Do your cars have the older figures inside? If not, what size?
BobbyD - I used Bachmann O Scale figures as my main reference. Interestingly, the MTH heads on the passenger figures seem scale but, as you transverse downward, the limbs, trunk, and legs (if they have legs) seem to get smaller in scale. This is fairly apparent in the leg height. I assume this is done purposely for the standing figures so they can be seen looking out the windows. All of this makes me suspicious that the height of the MTH passenger cars is not truly scale, mainly in the lower portion, to accommodate the high rail wheels. That is to say, from ground level the passenger cars are scale height, but if you were to measure the height of the frame alone, it would be less than the "prototype" measurement.
The tables in the dining car seem very short height wise from a visual perspective but the MTH 20-64xxx interiors are such a pain to access that I dare not try to measure this. (A few of them have loose figures in them. They can't be accessed via the side doors or the ends so I let them stay dislodged.)
Those modelers who strip the interiors out and replace them almost always replace the figures anyway or move the existing figures inwards. There are so few to begin with.
Anthony
it’s been another 8 months and I got all my pieces but I am still waiting on the vista dome car. Is this a lost cause? Do I keep waiting? What’s the likelihood it may show up some say?
What's the item number? 20-64141?
Have they released any other cars with this tooling since then? I'd think they would have run them together. Interesting they ran the sets and not this car.
Now if the car in quisition is 20-64141 a Full Length Vista Dome (which the B&O Never had) per the MTH site was delivered Jan. 2021 and none show in stock anywhere.
Some fact the B&O was the first road East of the Mississippi River to have Dome cars. They were of the low profile design which is well represented by MTH's B7O single dome car. I road one from my hometown round trip to Chicago at night up in the dome both directions in the 50"s
Ron
And correctly named I might add!
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