>From a modern scaler point of view not much doing except for the new diesel >from Lionel. Not in the paint schemes (yet, I hope) that I'm looking for. >Where are the modern freight cars to go with the new modern diesels?
I was surprised by MTH's multiple ore/hopper car offerings - 6 pack and two individual cars for a total of 8 different numbers. Also surprised they came out of the chute with the ore cars. I will want to wait and see if they are the same as the original offerings before commiting to adding more to my Milwaukee Road fleet. And yeowzers is right on the truck and scale wheel pricing. It appears MTH is not offering both hirail and scale wheels in the box - that scale have to be ordered separately. How/if cars are ordered with scale wheels is confusing to me. After over extending my wad on purchases this year this modeler doesn't feel the urge to snap up anything from either of these catalogs. Harumph! Ben Trousdale P.S. OK... Ma-a-a-a-aybe the Y3 with Fred's wheels. And from last year's another BNSF SD70Ace with different number once the scale wheels become available. --- In [email protected], "up148" <up148@...> wrote: > > 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 > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
