MTH York meet boxcar question

I have one.

I have them all.  Many I have doubles.  They are all in boxes at the moment.    I do plan on a display in the foyer to my home.  I have every box signed by Mike Wolf.

they use the 40' boxcar every year to ,imo, keep the cost low,as many of their premier cars list $65-70,plus they do look pretty good displayed on a wall or run on your layout. a boxcar body must be used to show the next catalog cover..

Marty Fitzhenry posted:

I have them all.  Many I have doubles.  They are all in boxes at the moment.    I do plan on a display in the foyer to my home.  I have every box signed by Mike Wolf.

So Marty, do you know the exact count on the cars released?  Definitely over 40, right?  Good idea on getting Mike to sign.  If I get one this week... maybe I'll ask him to sign right on the car itself with a black sharpie.  

The total count is  not over 40, I am pretty sure. 

I'd need to check the exact first one, but I recall before the catalog covers started, there was one car with graphics made to commemorate the release of DCS (I am not 100% sure if that car was from the same York that DCS started showing up (April 2002), but it might make sense).  I think there was only one York car before the DCS car that had logos for all the various lines (Premier, RK, One Gauge, Tinplate Traditions at the time, I believe).

Guessing based on plus or minus a meet or 2 for the DCS and the earlier car, I'd guess at maybe 32 cars total before this meet. All meets from 2002 to 2016 inclusive would be 30 cars, April 2017 would be # 31.

-Dave

I've got the first 20 or so. Some of them signed by Mike Wolf.  One by Mike & Dick Maddox.  I stopped buying them after missing a couple York Meets; figured it was a good breaking point. 

Someone wanted them more than I, but he was a no-show at York.   That was a few years ago.  Maybe I should find all the boxcars and try again. 

Yeah, its not like MTH has ever released a special loco to pull of those cars, right?

RadioRon posted:

Yeah, its not like MTH has ever released a special loco to pull of those cars, right?

Correct, I believe. (though there were a limited couple of  EVOs offered (to MTH RRC members I think) that I missed - I know one said DCS on the side, I forget what the second said, but I don't think it was meant as a complement for these cars)

It would be sort of difficult to do a special graphic that would fit, but a neutral cream colored steamer or diesel would look OK pulling most of them (yeah, I know there is really nothing "OK" about a cream colored steamer - seems wrong, except maybe for Tinplate ).  I'm sure if he thought it would sell, it would have happened by now. 

It's probably a lot harder to convince people to spend a couple hundred on a commemorative engine than it is to get them to spend $25-$40 on a boxcar.

-Dave

There were several MTH Club locomotives.  I never bought one but a lot of folks did. 

I just checked my records.  The 1st MTH York boxcar was in October 2002, followed by the DCS York car in April of 2003.  If my math is right,  think that makes the total count so far 29, with this week's edition bringing it to an even 30.

Farmer_Bill posted:

There were several MTH Club locomotives.  I never bought one but a lot of folks did. 

 

I bought a few.  I have I think the 1st one (Hudson) and the Imperial SD 70 ACE.  I initially bought the Rugged Rails small steamer (I forget the config), but it unfortunately had what I considered unacceptable paint flaws and MTH did not have any more to exchange it for me.

-Dave

I have most, if not all of them:

In addition to the club SD70ACE in the above video, I have the RK ES44 released in 2014, that will be paired up with it:

The Premier units that I can also assign to this train are as follows:

I had been collecting club cars from various manufacturers to create an "industry special" display train bearing all the various O-Gauge names (getting a Williams one was a challenge, but eventually bore fruit). When the York boxcars began to dominate the consist, I split them off into their own dedicated train. Since the consist I videotaped in 2013 at the top of the post, I've continued to acquire them. Eventually the entire train will take a few spins on the test track, (and maybe one day the NJ HiRailers layout) for more YouTube-ry, 

---PCJ

Who said that "collecting" was dead? 

I have a total of three.  I bought one as a souvenir of my first York, the second being the one with the Coors Silver Bullet on it, and last but not least, the one with the first Lionel Corp. Tinplate catalog cover.  I only buy them if there is something on the catalog cover that interests me.  I wish they would have put the CP Holiday Train on the cover this time - I would have bought that one for sure.  If I had been around since the beginning, I might have collected them all, but I have too much on my want list to consider adding another theme to collect.  It is cool to see them all running together in a consist though.

Andy

according to the mth newsletter, 28 have been made . spring  2017 will/is #29....

If anyone is looking for cars from 2005 - 2014, Sidetrack Hobbies has them. Enter "tca" in the search window.

I am not a collector but just keep buying them.  Sort of a York trophy.

Marty Fitzhenry posted:

I have them all.  Many I have doubles.  They are all in boxes at the moment.    I do plan on a display in the foyer to my home.  I have every box signed by Mike Wolf.

I have them all as well signed by Mike. All of them sitting in the attic along with my complete collection of K-Line Quarter cars. I did buy an extra DCS car and the one with the N&W 1776.

Scott Smith

I recently changed my approach to commemorative cars... I'm a senior citizen, have MTH cars from York in the late nineties, early 2000's; also Lionel CC cars, etc, etc.

I also have a variety of dealer special sets from the late nineties: Coke, NJ Transport, etc.

I've decided keeping this stuff in cartons is silly. My executors will just toss it, or give it away in a bulk sell-off.

I've remodeled my workshop to add shelves to display these treasures. They are fun, and bring back memories. Most will never run on the layout. So be it.

After perhaps 30 years of collecting cartons containing trains, I finally said "What's the Point".

Jan

I never knew about the MTH cars until it was mentioned in the OGR forums. Thought to myself that I'd check it out and perhaps buy one last week.

Of course, with all the times I walked past or stopped at the MTH booth, the thought went "poof" and I'm still without a car (or even seeing one!).