Incredible timing that they both hit the market at the same time. I'm sure that
was a hectic race. I just took a very quick cursory look and have some brief
comments.
The disappointing aspect to me is both catalogs (as presented) are so A/F
Hi-Rail oriented. Heck, Lionel even calls it an A/F catalog and believe me I
felt like I just slipped back 50-60 years and was looking at an old A.C Gilbert
catalog. Nice toys but virtually nothing that interests me.
MTH is a little better, but the paint scheme on the UP F-3 is wrong. How can
you paint an F3 loco wrong when there are so many examples in other gauges
plus SHS's example to work from. Don't know about the other locos paint schemes
but they all look more toylike than the SHS locos they're replacing (at least
to me). And the 40ft steel rebuilt boxcars have gray colored brake wheels on
otherwise prototype colored cars. Pleaseeeeeeeeee.
Pretty much what I expected from these two but I was still hoping. I saw Atlas
dumb down the Red Caboose and P&D O scale GP9's and F3's so why should Lionel
and MTH be any different in "S". I think my current stock of SHS locos and
rolling stock just became a whole lot more valuable......at least to me.
Butch Holtgrieve
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