The latest MTH tinplate catalog is now online. It has to be the best catalog yet to be released by Mike Wolf. The Armored Military set is a must have for me.
Here's the link:http://www.mthtrains.com/sites...1_tin_v_1/index.html
Bill T.
I want to get some of those O gauge cars to run behind my 226E steam locomotive. What retailers are carrying them?
George
The MTH products may be high-quality, but that has to be among the most annoying online catalogs I've ever seen.
Try Trainz.com, they seem to have everything.
Becky
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Good evening all,
This is truly another great catalog, and yet I have not been able to pull the trigger on buying anything. The basic problem is that I have one of just about everything that is listed that I could possibly want or reasonably afford. There are a lot of nice to haves, but nothing that is "OMG I have to have that". Space is another consideration. I have to admit some of the O gauge such as the Junior Mayflower or the Army train are intriguing. What is encouraging is that they are branching beyond the standard reproductions that were made in the past. The 6 and 7 are good signs. What would be interesting would be a set of 110 series cars pulled by a 33 or 38, or a series of four wheel 800 O-gauge cars pulled by a small electric. Thinking way outside the box would be a box diesel or any early SW switcher in standard gauge. Basically what I am waiting for is the IVES 1770 series cars, or a small American Flyer standard gauge set. We shall see.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Am I the only one who noticed they're remaking the "Girl's Train"? Wasn't that one of Lionel's all-time biggest failures? Maybe they should get Mattel to make a 1/30th scale "Engineer Barbie" to go with it?
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I did not realize that a tinplate Girls Train had ever been made, was it Lionel or Ives and what year ?
Well, I don't think a tinplate one was ever made, so re-introducing the idea is more what I meant. But they did try it once in the late 50s or early 60s, and it didn't do well at all. Something about all that pink on an iron horse just doesn't seem...right...
There has been quite a few modern O Gauge Girls Trains manufactured since the original Lionel Postwar version from the fifties. Most be some interest for the set to continue to reappear. Lionel has done 2 or 3 modern versions, K-Line, MTH, and Williams ( 2 versions ) have also released Girls Sets. I guess MTH figures a tinplate version will be profitable.
actually Williams has done 4 versions 2 in steam 2 in GG-1 ( passenger and freight)
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