SpaceMouse wrote: Joe, you just don't get it. It's still now. Next year is next year. Next year people will be drooling over DCS and their abiltiy to run an engine, a K-4 no less. So bide your time, Joe it's coming.
Joe, you just don't get it. It's still now. Next year is next year. Next year people will be drooling over DCS and their abiltiy to run an engine, a K-4 no less.
So bide your time, Joe it's coming.
Space Mouse, you must be a Chicago Cub fan as they have been living that for the last 100 years. Next year ...........
;) Ken
SpaceMouse wrote: howmus wrote: Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow, You're always a day away! All the people at MTH are probably too busy dreaming up new insulting ads for RR magazines to reregister here....... Mark my words. They'll be back.
howmus wrote: Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow, You're always a day away! All the people at MTH are probably too busy dreaming up new insulting ads for RR magazines to reregister here.......
Mark my words. They'll be back.
Hopefully "next" year.
Jon
July 12, 2006, a day that will be remembered in the History of HO, we received word, no IC_Jeremy received an Email that the K4 is ready to be shipped from M.T.H., but only to authorized dealers. None of us received an email, at least I did not get it.
Maybe they will make an F unit next. Now that would be a surprise for sure, since it has been almost a week since the last F unit was announced.
Jeremy, are you on their list or did a dealer email you??
MTH has demonstrated as much sucess as Lionel had in HO, although lionel did release some rolling stock as I recall. This is still a tough audience to make any inroads with. Too many established companies who have paid their dues over time and developed a reputation and a loyal following. Perhaps two years from now ( the development time for the K-4) we will look at MTH differently. perhaps not. I think that I would prefer to purchase from a manufacturer who earns his reputation through his positive actions, not by degradeing others. In that regard I wish MTH sucess in HO, we will all benefit from having another quality supplier in the hobby.
Will
I simply responded to a user that mentions...waiting and waiting for the release of the K4. Less drool but there are still alot of people talking about MTH. :)
SpaceMouse wrote: The point is not the release. There's just less drool from model railroaders than from a dehydrated desert tortoise.
The point is not the release. There's just less drool from model railroaders than from a dehydrated desert tortoise.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
July 12, 2006 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has begun shipping its debut HO locomotive, the Pennsylvania K-4s Pacific, to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers. Available in two different configurations, multiple paint schemes and different cab numbers, the die-cast model comes fully equipped with Proto-Sound 3.0 digital sound and sychronized puffing smoke.
In development for two years, the K-4 may just be the finest HO steam locomotive ever produced and sports a list of standard features never before included on any HO locomotive. Operation modes include conventional analog DC with most DC power supplies, DCC command with any DCC controller and DCS command with M.T.H.'s DCS Digital Command System.
K-4 fans can choose from pre-war and post-war versions. The pre-war version is available in two different paint schemes as well as an undecorated version.
Once again we have proof of some good advice fromRobert Heinlein:
"Never make a prediction that will be proven wrong within your lifetime."
Either that, or get proficient at dodging rotten tomatoes!
Even if MTH goes out of its corporate mind and produces JNR steam in HOj, the first thing I will do to any that find their way into my hands is gut the DCS and rewire for analog DC. I'll use the extra space to add weight.
Chuck
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
jfugate wrote:I remember this being posted a year ago (July 9th) and so I tucked it away in my calendar reminder for a year later. It just popped up, because it's been a year!Posted to the MR forum on July 9th, 2005DCC isn't as popular as people think and MTH will prove that there's a cheaper and better alternative. This time next year, there will be a lot of people drooling over DCS and new HO products from MTH. -- posted by Rivet CounterTrue ... or not true? It's now this time *next year* ....
Posted to the MR forum on July 9th, 2005DCC isn't as popular as people think and MTH will prove that there's a cheaper and better alternative. This time next year, there will be a lot of people drooling over DCS and new HO products from MTH. -- posted by Rivet Counter
Carey
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We have only been back on the air a few minutes and MTH has come up already?? I don't believe I will ever get to see on of their K4's, except in the MR video.
Has anyone on our forum seen them??
Maybe they are working on the Big Boy they hinted about.
DCC is working great for me, but then what do I know.
SpaceMouse wrote:Joe, you just don't get it. It's still now. Next year is next year. Next year people will be drooling over DCS and their abiltiy to run an engine, a K-4 no less. So bide your time, Joe it's coming.
Joe Fugate Modeling the 1980s SP Siskiyou Line in southern Oregon
jfugate wrote: selector wrote:Joe, you old pot stirrer you!! I'm guessing that nothing has changed. HOwever, I'll go out on a limb and predict that by this time next year the MR world will have something to say about their HO stuff. I won't go so far as to predict what they'll be saying, but....well,...you know.I wanted to file this quote away and see if it was really MTH hype or if there was something to it. Even though I think MTH's "not invented here" attitude has hurt them more than helped, I'm willing to see if they might actually be on to something.My evaluation of this statement a year later is I don't see too many people doing a lot of drooling over MTH product offerings in the DCS vs DCC area, or in the HO locos area.As you say, it's still very much wait and see.So the year prediction in the year-old quote was too soon. Looks like we need to give it another year, and maybe two for us to sort out some obvious directions the wind will be blowing.
selector wrote:Joe, you old pot stirrer you!! I'm guessing that nothing has changed. HOwever, I'll go out on a limb and predict that by this time next year the MR world will have something to say about their HO stuff. I won't go so far as to predict what they'll be saying, but....well,...you know.
Why should anyone be drooling over MTH offerings. Joe? All they have in HO is a Pennsy K-4, one of the more overdone locomotives. Shoot, I hear Athearn is coming out with an SP MT-4 4-8-2. Now THAT's something to activate the old salivary glands.
Now if MTH were to come out with a TW-8 4-8-0 or a P-6 4-6-2, I might consider kissing Mike Wolf's backside in front of CNN news cameras. However, I don't really think there's much chance I'd actually face the choice between actually doing that and wimping out.
Andre
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
selector wrote:I'm guessing that nothing has changed.
Plenty has changed. DCC just keeps getting better and better.