MTH Catalog now online

Thanks! Like that Premier NP North Coast Limited!

Ricky

Excellent, the rocket sets are back sans locomotive... now I can buy a second booster set.

thanks, I'll check it out now

WOOO HOOOOO!  DCS app for smartphones and tablets.  Finally, complete control from my phone (since I use it to control everything else: TV, stereo, dvr, music, hvac, schedule, finances, ebay, social, etc)

Can't wait.

Hey, anyone else noticed that the AC4400 husky stack set has two prices!?  Item 20-20395-1 is $700 on page 125 and $750 on page 93.  Hope MTH honors the lower price.

@ $700 for the set you'd save $110 over buying the husky stack for $350 and a $460 AC4400 individually.

Terrific and broad selection of items... Nice to see the intermodel twin-stack sets back with new roadnames and container designs... Never can have enough of those on a modern-day railroad.  And kudos to MTH for bringing back the rocket booster cars.   Nice!  I might also be in for one of the Schnabel cars.  Something about them i just like.

Two very striking passenger sets also caught my eye:   NP and the Alaska RR, although I've ventured into GGD territory for passenger cars nowadays.  

Assuming MTH produces these items in their usual quantities, they'll be sell-outs for sure.  Excellent stuff!  

Still waiting for  MTH to complete the UP heritage Western Pacific passenger cars... They never offered the 5-car set with the observation car (like they did in the other UP heritage roadnames), despite the fact that they produced just about all the other add-on cars in that paint scheme.    I guess we'll wait for another catalog.  

Overall, given this economy... it's an excellent catalog.  No doubt about it.

David

Anybody notice that the premier auto racks again are illustrated with the trucks set close to the end.  I thought they corrected this and moved them in to the prototype position?

Did they move them back to the ends or is MTH going to keep making this illustration mistake?

They've been illustrating them like that for years -- even though they've been producing them with newer inset wheel locations since 2009.  Not to worry.

David

Hi Matt,

Thanks

Alex

The 1940 Twentieth Century Limited, PRR BB-1 and the  NASA rocket set for me. 

Some good stuff in the MTH 2014 catalog. I liked the 2 long island steam engines from rail king.  Prem stuff was a little soft, not too much IMO. Like the smartphone, now I have to buy an Apple Ipad for the kid to use. LOL

I really like the Premier Dreyfus Hudson with the Boxpok wheels, but I would like to hear what it sounds like, before I purchase.

Thanks again Matt, for the heads up

Alex

Same here Alex, I like the Dreyfus allot. A buddy of mine has the Santa Fe blue goose and to me it sounds great, it has proto 3 also. So we shall see.

WOW! It must be a REALLY BAD time to look at the catalog! It's SO Slow to download!

Same here. I finally gave up, as it wouldn't load past page 4-5!  Every time I have gone back to try and look at the new catalog, it is slower than my previous attempt.  The heck with it.

I gave up, too, from here at home.  Can't even get to the cover.  A case of either high demand (a good thing), or inadequate preparation to handle the demand (a bad thing).  

Man I am going to be broke. Definitelt will be getting one set of the 5 car twin set and also one set to the rocket motor set. Will the RPO for the rockets be avilable for the road names listed in the catalog? I guess you could always find one separately sicne I assume there would be no difference. Of course the F7 Southern Pacific Black Window. I hope it will look like the one from I believe 2002 with the detail cross bars and especially the white stripes at the bottem edge.

The CSX set with box car logo is also a nice set. 

It will load to your computer. You have to wait a minute or more.

Andrew

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Will the RPO for the rockets be avilable for the road names listed in the catalog?

The crew car for the rocket sets is a privately owned car and is correct as pictured in the catalog.

This is what I did. I logged onto the catalog, and l walked away from the computer for 15 minutes, when I got back it was loaded and I was able to see the entire catalog. Just go through the pages very slow.

Thanks,

Alex

I'm not sure what you would expect MTH to do? Upgrade the internet?

I looked at it at 9;30 and had no problem. I just checked again and still no problem. Pages all loaded quickly.

maybe you guys need to check your own bandwidth

I'm only getting partial pages loaded.

From what little I saw, I'm happy that there continues to be a number of Railking Imperial steam offerings (NKP 765, NYC Berks, Camelbacks, N&W J, SP Cab-fwd).  However after purchasing the recent RK Imperial PRR M1 I'm hesitant to pre-order.  I was disappointed that the Mountain's class lights were still cast in and not add-ons, there were no truck chains, the soundset had a good chuff and whistle, but they put in passenger sounds (The Clevelander) when they advertised in the catalog and on the box freight.  I don't recall the PRR mountains pulling passenger duty.

It would be nice if MTH would offer (for a fee) a customized sound set.  You can pick from a list of whistles, station stops, chuffs, bells, or general sidetrack sounds and submit a paid order and receive a digital download direct from MTH.  Would you pay $10 to $20 to get the sound package that YOU want?  MTH has the technology but do they have the staff or web structure to take the order?  They probably could use a google doc survey/order type form.

Totally dead out here on the West Coast.  Can't even get into www.mthtrains.com ....

I've also noticed a lack of attention to the Imperial products. My LHS just got in the PS3 P47 Blue Comet Pacific. It was done somewhat recently in Western Maryland, CNJ, etc, perhaps 2 years ago. It had tender chains, builders plates, etc. The new PS3 version had none of those. No chains, no builders plates, etc. Disappointing. Hope they aren't just pushing them out and leaving these off to catch up with back ups. 

If you must have Green Bay and Western, There is a Premier line GBW Thrall All Door Box Car.

Andrew

I found it much easier to download/save the PDF version than attempt to view the catalog from MTH's server.

http://www.mthtrains.com/sites...offline/download.pdf

Geez, yes.  Their site is the slowest site I have visited in years, particularly today.  Of course, it won't download for me either - I guess I'll go re-read my Lionel catalog instead.

Nope wouldn't load.

 Whenever you guys tell me there's a new catalog, I wait a week to see it. It's just easier. I can't imagine how many dealers alone are looking at it at once.

We are optimizing the server and making some cache adjustments to improve performance.  Thank you for your patience.

Downloaded to my iPad, a little slow when I did it about a hour ago but it did download. 

It started very slowly, but I let it go for 2 to 4 minutes in another tab as I looked at another forum thread.  When I checked back, the download was done.  Much easier to view offline.  I'm not sure how the microsoft or apple download versions look.

I think there is a doubt about it. There are many different view points. Mostly re-cataloged Premier steam, No new tooling on anything as far as I noticed. Just a bunch of PS3 updates. No new Scaletrack pieces in 3 or 2 rail. I'm glad others are finding products they are excited about, but for me this is a very weak catalog. I'm growing bored with the rehashed products from the importers lately. They say it is the economy, but ironically I would spend more if they made new products. As it is now my money will stay put. Hopefully the HO catalog will surprise me.

Why is MTH re-issuing done-in-the-recent-past Primier line trains, like the North Coast Limited set?

We bought the entire set last time around, which seems like only a couple of years ago.

Don't see any difference between the one we have and the "new" issue ...

What am I missing seeing that they would re-do it so soon, or is MTH just moving out a previous item they over-built?

The question I guess I'd ask MTH is "I just bought this ... why would I purchase it again ... what's new, improved, or different?

Is it just that the stirrup straps will stay on the trucks of this issue

Downloads now ... just slower coming than an income tax refund check ...

Still can't get the thing to even begin to load here at the office (PC) or at home (Mac).  Fortunately, I'm a patient man and can wait for a day or two before taking a look.  Still, that's not terribly good 'cause most folks don't have my patience. 

Internet Status report from Dallas:

At this time there are no issues with loading or viewing the catalog.

Regards,

Swafford