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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by simon1966 In April 2004 MTH announced HO scale sound. In September 2004 MTH announced the release of the K4 locomotive in HO for delivery in early spring. If you recall, it resulted in a short discussion on this forum![:D] The consensus was that MTH was not welcome in the HO scale market. Anyway, it is now summer 2005 and there is not a mention of the HO scale line on the MTH web site. I have no intention of purchasing one of these if they ever come out, but was curious if they had decided to go ahead with HO or if they had dropped the idea based on the less than enthusiastic response to the announcement? [/quote] The last time I looked, Train World was advertising them, but they are not to be seen on any shelves anyplace I know off. Dont take this wrong, since I have Pennsy engines, but do we need another K4 on the market in HO?? The BLI K4 is a good model and filled the market need for the beloved K4, at least for me. I am surprised they did not offer a Big Boy or Challenger, since everyone starting up seems to do those first. Lionel in all their wisdom thought their Challenger would capture the HO world, and might have done better if the price and performance was in line with each other. I can't imagine what they did with all of the first models that were sent back because of running quality or other flaws. Thier blow out sales actually made the model a good value and with Athearn coming to the market the same time, it forced Athearn to reprice their Challenger to match the Lionel pricing. The Athean Challengers were received with open arms by us even with incorrect and very poor sound and we purchased all of them because the price was right. Now if only the P2K 2 8 8 2 sounded like a compound engine, the world would be right, at least for a day or so! Sound can add such a dimension to the hobby, especially if it is correct or even close to the real thing.
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