No, absolutely not.  We want you to suffer like the rest of us!

You have a very nice want list going there and I feel your pain! I was all set to order a Lionel engine and an Atlas-O engine, then the MTH catalog came out. These guys really have my number. Somehow they have already found out I like BNSF, now they even have 6 car Kansas City Power & Light coal car sets (2 of 'em to be exact + the 2 road numbers as a single car order). About fell out of my chair when I saw those. How do they know? I swear I haven't told them a thing! 

 

Keep in mind I only have modern diesels, no steamers. At MSRP pricing from the catalog, my want list is in the $4500-$5000 range just from the MTH 2014 v2 catalog. Needless to say about half that is going to have to be cut along with the Lionel and Atlas-O purchases. There were a lot of items from the 2014 v1 catalog that had to be cut last fall, I would still like to have as well. This has happened with every MTH catalog in at least the last two years. We don't stand a chance.

 

 

You seriously need to get some help, man.

My want list from just the Lionel signature catalog ran up to about $8000 so I don't feel sorry for you at all Scott, I'm with you, I know what your feeling. 

 

Now I have to reduce my want list 1/4th of what I want. Oh the trials and tribulations of liking model trains. 

Scott,

 

Mike Wolf was thinking about you when he choose the products to put in the catalog.  Good luck trying to escape the "Wolf".

 

Joe

Would someone please come here and take my MTH catalog away!

 

No, but I'll come take the MTH stuff away after you get it paid for!

 

Well I only saw one premier diesel in that catalog that I pre-ordered, but the same thing happened to me in the Lionel Catalog.  I saw so much stuff that I just don't have the space for!

I told you guys before,this train collecting is some kind of disease. Have to go to a meet or I get moody. Have to look at each new catalogue. Have to run the trains.  I got it and it looks like i'm not alone. Is there a name for this condition?

PUT THE CATALOG DOWN!....... PLACE IT ON THE FLOOR IN FRONT OF YOU!........... SLOWLY..............KICK IT TOWARDS ME.......NOW BACK AWAY SLOWLY........... AND KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM..................

 

 

I haven't got my copy yet.........................

Were "train-heads"and we need intervention.So I have been told.

Money is No object!!!

That is, if it is available!!!

I have plenty of dreams, like a kid in a candy store!

Ralph

Scott you need to suffer just like the rest of us sick train nuts. Just think how much Jim will enjoy seeing you and remember "He who dies with the most trains wins". And I haven't gotten my MTH Catalog yet!

MTH does often come out with unusual, different and interesting items. Fortunately my purposeful buying of late limits the urge to buy everything. Offer the new MTH catalog to your wife. She will take it

Maybe, but he who dies with the most trains... is still dead!

Hey, Scott

If someone takes your MTH catalog away , I will send you a new one.

Pat

WWW.PATSTRAINS.COM

 

Come on Scott. Take one for the team! That way we can live vicariously through you.

Scott,

I bet Mrs. Smith would gladly help with your problem.

Brad

Scott, just put in the doghouse,  then you can look at it every night since you seem to have to sleep out there every night she catches you with a new locomotive. Have you ever thought of watching the old Hogan Heroes show and figure out how to dig a tunnel from the doghouse to your office/train room so you can sneak them in without her catching you?

You need to drive to a local hobby shop and leave it there.

 

The other option is to buy another house just for model railroads and toy train layouts.

 

 

Andrew

 Listen. I've got it!

We both go in and buy a hobby shop. We order everything we want. After it comes in and you get to see it, we'll put it on the shelf. Slowly over the years we'll sell off the older stuff when you're not looking. There will be so much new stuff coming in, you won't even notice!

 You do that already????

Hmmm, well maybe I need to win the lottery first, but at least I've got a plan.

I think that disease is called microferroequinosis.  How come all these people can

find lots of interesting stuff in these catalogs, and I can't?

From each of the MTH catalogs since 2005 there have been many cars and diesel locomotives that would work with my themes. I have to always put them in categories like time period and regions to narrow down what to get first.

 

Andrew

I wasn't going to look at the new MTH catalog, but Scott, you blew it for me by posting those trains! The American Freedom Train locomotive and the Y3 are more stimulation than my wallet can handle, but I will be on the lookout for good deals on these engines.

Fortunately there are no new trolley cars in Mike's catalog, else my head and piggy bank would explode.

looked up some of the shipping dates.

they don't ship until Jan 2015.

that's a long time to wait for stuff off your wish

list.

your wish list should be,

"I wish they would ship it quicker"!!

You are very lucky, you have the much rarer and better disease 'non-microferroequinosis'.

 

 

Scott,

Against my better judgment, I just made a second pass through the hard copy of the catalog I got late last week at my LHS. The list has expanded and it is getting much worse! Could be terminal if wife sees it! Death by rolling pin or cast iron skillet!

 

 

The MTH catalog is on their website you know guys. I'll wait until all of the good stuff is second-hand. I love the new Dreyfuss Hudson but $1,000 is just too much 

You know Scott... you're such an MTH Junkie!

Do you reread the catalogs obsessively like most of us do?If you don't, there's your culprit.

Twist and turn like the rest of us. We have to have our trains and we need them now. Fred

No way, Scott.....You're good for the economy!  

 

Peter

Good thing, He'd keep you busy.

I couldn't take it and crumble. Give me each road number too!

How about this one from the MTH Premier line?

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo...108529158&type=1

 

 

Scott, You really need to find Mrs Smith's vice!
She has to have a weak spot...Jimmy Choo's, Little Blue Tiffany boxes?
Know your enemy....LOL

Nick

As far as I am concerned, the true test of a great catalog, as opposed to a good one, is if I find something else I just must have every time I go through it again, no matter how many times.  This most recent MTH catalog is a great catalog, as was, frankly, the most recent Lionel. 

 

But again, I am reluctant to pre-order anything from the MTH, because I have so much on long backorders now.  The PS 3.0 UP propane turbine and PRR S-1 are both shown as shipping in June.  If they do I will revisit my ever growing list of "that would be nice to have" from the catalog.    

I can't do anything about the catalog but can sell you the train patch!

If I was still in business, I would be calling you on the phone. Twice a day.

 

Jim Sutter,

I can remember receiving more than one call for you coming across something you know I needed to buy from you. It was always a great experience--accept when Kathy found out. I can remember sitting in Martinsburg, WV at a Burger King drive-thru ordering a set of NYC F-3's from you. I didn't see them at York and figured you might have them-and of course you did.

 

You know Scott... you're such an MTH Junkie!

 Yes I am!

You really need to find Mrs Smith's vice!

My wife's only vice is not spending money.

Scott Smith

The deadline is this week and I am going to be in trouble. The catalog is still here.

Scott Smith

 

Peter you are right about that. Most of the money Scott spent on trains was he bought all N&W J's. 

You will not be alone, you will have company!