MTH Passenger coaches?

It all depends on what you like. I personally am quite happy with my MTH Passenger cars and have 20 of them in two sets. I've seen the Aristo streamliners and prefer the MTH. The USA Trains cars of course are just top notch!

The only thing I would say to consider is that since the GP38-2 is in 1:29th and the MTH cars are 1:32 make sure you would be ok with the size difference. If you like, I have a GP7/9 on hand right now I could take a comparison photo if you wanted to give and idea of what the difference would be.

On the pricing, St A has typically had higher prices on MTH stuff than say Ridgeroadstation or Jim with Jim's electric trains. Shoot Jim an email if you want and see what kind of price he can get on them if you are still interested in getting them. [email protected] I'd also check out RRstations website if you haven't already.

The stuff will ship eventually. I guess they keep going on by maybe making models that people actually want. (still too bad it just wasn't in 1:29 /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/tongue.gif )


Raymond

I would think the LGB Amfleets (phase III) would look nice behind a USA GP-38. But not having seen the two together I can't be sure.

Although the USA Amtrak GP38's are fantasy locos (not sure where they got those road number from...2885 and 2886) Amtrak does have GP38s. However, USA's loco color scheme of choice matches the Amtrak GP40's better. I believe Amtrak GP38's don't have HEP so they alone cannot pull a passenger train (unlike the Amtrak GP40s).

Here are some photo links of these little known Amtrak locos:

Amtrak GP38s

Amtrak GP40s

With LGB Amfleets and your USA loco you could somewhat duplicate this consist:

Hey Dave, here are some pics. Let me know this helps any.
















Raymond