What will you purchase from the MTH 2013 Volume 1 Catalog?

Jersey Central 0-6-0 switcher ordered today from Charles Ro $359.95

should be here 1/13

As much as I'm tempted, I really can't justify another Big Boy.

The Galloping Goose is a strong pull, We will see about that one, I want to know what sound set it has.

The 2 Flatcars, Edsels and '50 pickups, gotta grab those.

Beyond that, not much to see.

Milwaukee Road GP-35 and SW1, for certain.

Have the Imperial Railking Big boy on order from 2011 vol 1. Hope to order the Imperial railking UP 484. the timing is not good, money wise

CSX and BNSF ES44AC, missed the BNSF the first time.

Bloody nose Amtrak Genesis, don't want the passenger cars though.

EP5 maybe

GG1 not sure which yet

Dutchess Class in Blue (maybe) need something to pull my Orient Express

Ohio Central GP-35 for sure. I think this is the 4th version of OC locos released by MTH.

Spokane Portland & Seattle boxcar, both car number.

Uncataloged Great Falls Beer reefers

Couple of items:  Alaska Galloping Goose and Alaska SW1500.  I have several SWs already, but will want the one with PS3.

I'll be getting the P&WV and AC&Y GP35s and the N&W '76 SD45.  I am considering the OC GP35 and the Premier SP GS-4 and cars.

If I get around to it, I might get the single stripe Grande RPO on P. 97.....did look

at the DT&I ore car (did the DT&I have those?...well, it did down at Southern Ohio

mines in its past, but that might have been in the Ohio Southern era before a group of little roads merged into the DT&I), and at the single stripe D&RGW  PA's, but I am holding out for the pre-WWII, pre-bumble bee black diesels and heavy weight cars, which nobody has made.  The Grande RPO car and the 2 car baggage/coach combination on that page could represent a Yampa Valley Mail configuration...several other road RPO's are offered, but none for MoPac, C,RI,&P, or Burlington or its subsidiaries that I could jump on...

Not sure to order the heritiage units from MTH or Lionel. MTH's is cheaper by about $80 but Lionel has legacy. Must make decision soon. Nothing else catches my eye though.

NS Premier Heritage NYC and Pennsy Locos

NS Premier Cabooses in NS, Southern, NYC & Pennsy

NYC Schnabel Car

The new Swiss beer wagons and boxcars, maybe a BLS Traxx loco, and if I can swing it, the RDG NS heritage 70Ace.

I'm a collector too!

20K Gallon 4-compartment tank cars

Schnabel Flatcars

New Haven EP-5 Passenger Set

Amtrak Genesis Passenger Set

Southern Pacific Daylight 4-8-4 GS-4 and matching passenger cars

and of course the AC&Y GP35!

Bill T

  I am with you on the Ohio Central GP-35's and yes this is the fourth offering of OC from MTH. If I remember correctly there were SD-40's, GP-38's, RS-3's {I believe are due anytime} and of course now the GP-35's.

Jeff

Looks like nothing for mme 

IF it has PS3,MAYBE the over sized General.

I decided to add a NS Heritage New York Central SD-70ACE along with the already ordered Pennsylvania ES44AC. A few pieces of Premier rolling stock for sure too!

Does anybody know for sure if the European 2-3-1 (Chapelon) is 1:43.5 or 1:48 scale?

On page 104, it's listed as 1:43.5 scale.  However, this appears to be an updated (PS-3, etc) version of the Premier 2-3-1 in the 2009 catalog, which is listed there as 1:48 scale.   Both 2009 and this latest listing are given as the exactly same length (23.25 inches). 

The 10% difference is scale is important to me: I have the 2-4-1 from the last year and while a lovely loco to look at when by itself, it just does not look right around 1:48 locos.  Even though, with the scale difference, it is still smaller than say the ATSF Northern 3759, it looks wrong - its 80 inch drivers are 88 inch es at 1:48, the cab is too big, etc. Just slightly doesn't fit on the layout next to all my scale locos.

You might try asking the question on the MTH Facebook page.  Answers to a lot of questions tend to be posted there since they keep up with that page on a frequent basis.

I've submitted the question.  No answer so far, but I will post whatever I get. 

I've never seen the MTh model up close, but after checking I'm 80% certain it is 1:43.5.   In Chapelon, Genius of French Steam, the drawings of the Etat 2-3-1 class show them to have been about 82-83 feet including tender.  The MTH model's advertised length of 23.25 inches works out to 84 feet at 1:43.5 (I suspect it is a very scale model with a slightly longer loco-tender gap that in reality).  At 1:48, the 23.25 inches works out to 93 feet, and while 2-3-1s no doubt varied in length a bit over the years, particularly after 1930 when Chapelon modified them, they never approached anything like 90 feet - only the 2-4-1s were that big.

Our MTH 2013 Volume 1 pre ordering pricing is now on our website. we will be taking preorders now through November 29th.

www.nassauhobby.com

The New Haven RailKing Scale F3's and likely one of the New Haven EP-5's..........maybe Hunter Green for fantasy look.......

Peter

I had a need for steam! So I ordered the Southern Pacific Lines GS-4 and the 5 car set plus the 2 add-on cars.

Also, NS Premier Heritage NYC and Pennsy and matching Cabooses. (The NYC Caboose is also going to go great with my NYC FT.)  

Looking at the Premier Pennsy GG-1, but have not convinced myself  as of yet.

What a great catalog!!!!

I'm getting:

1. Amtrak Genesis Phase III...this one is AWESOME!!

2. UP ES44

3. Amtrak FP45

4. Santa Fe FP45

can't wait!!!!!

CN:

   You might want to take a quick glance through all the pages.  Can one REALLY preorder any of the OCEM passenger car sets for just $54.00 ?  If so, I'll take three of each, scale wheels please.   There are some other 'slipped a digit, I think' errors there, too.

Best, SZ

All of the N&W Bicentennial items.

Ron

Charlie N:  Oh, OK -- I "obviously" didn't read far enough -- my apologies.

SZ

Since you are on the topic of pre-orders.  Aaron's City Trains will gladly take any pre-order from MTH or Lionel without any deposit down and when your item arrives we will ship it to you for FREE if the order is over $150.  Just give us a call 234-678-3482.  Thanks, Aaron

Agreed regarding the Daylight SD45 (technically it would be an SD44R).  I think it may be due to their incorrect first attempt using the SD40-2 back in the 90's.

One glaring error I noticed in the catalog picture is that it shows that it's a brake wheel version of the SD45, with the brake wheel on the far end of the long hood on the engineer's side.  The prototype 7399 actually had a brake lever (like the SD45T-2) and was mounted on the conductor side on the short hood.  The prototype SD45s were made both ways during its production run, so I wonder if MTH made the tooling modular so it can be done both ways on this model.

Here is what I have coming.