Now now... it appears that a 4 bay hopper will ship in June, in one road name.

I could find the 2013 HO and O scale catalogs, but no 1 gauge.

Got this from their site.

Maybe I am missing something?

Greg

 

I asked last weekend at the MTH booth and the one person that writes the catalogs was there and told me that he was just finishing the o and ho
and would not get to the 1 gauge till march but was still in 1 gauge he told me that they had drawings for some new stuff but no tooling and maybe
not this year but not getting out of 1 gauge

 

Well, that information jives 100% with all the "official" information from MTH so far.

Too bad they cannot make any new locos this year, but the #1 scale business is a tiny part of their bottom line.

Hope for next year.

Greg

 

Well I'd answer but why????

 

No answer was requested, nor desired. I was responding to Dick.

Just making a statement that the information from Dick jives with what MTH has actually said, officially.

There was a lot of speculation, but my position is that it's best to go by what representatives of the company say publicly.

I'm all for MTH to make lots of trains and lots of money and stay in #1 scale, but above that, I value TRUE and HONEST information.

Regards, Greg

 

Well then what has changed? MTH said when the catalog will be out. Why do you ask? If you need help finding their products or asking about them, here's a show they'll be at this weekend:
http://www.wghshow.com/
maybe it's close by??
The only one who's raised any doubts is.....some guy by the name jethor

 

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...2jQqg/URKlx-9fdlI/AAAAAAAAS7M/B52JccoRZ2M/s846/2013%20one%20gauge%20catalog.JPG

 

Posted By Greg Elmassian on 06 Feb 2013 09:56 AM
No answer was requested, nor desired. I was responding to Dick.

Just making a statement that the information from Dick jives with what MTH has actually said, officially.

There was a lot of speculation, but my position is that it's best to go by what representatives of the company say publicly.

I'm all for MTH to make lots of trains and lots of money and stay in #1 scale, but above that, I value TRUE and HONEST information.

Regards, Greg


Hi Greg,

You are correct about official statements, it's the people that throw info out there that really dont know any thing that makes the Hobby tuff for people to get a read on. Theres a lot of "Joe Blows" That just say things because they support a manufacture that really isn't selling in G anymore. Proof is in the putting I say...Put up or dont post incorrect info I always say.

J.


Quote,
I see a new G gauge catalog in the O gauge catalog ??????????? WTH is there a new catalog or not...?




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I had a short conversation with Mike Wolfe. He said "wait until NOVEMBER 6". I also asked about them producing a single channel BIU [Battery Interface Unit] so that it would be possible to put everything into a single locomotive and operate with DCS. He suggested that Gary Raymond and I go out and collect $200K from all the "like-minded parties" and he would put his design engineers to work on it. I also asked about his acquisition of the old S-Helper Services product line and plans to continue/expand it. I got the same sort of answer. Clearly he is still focused on O and HO scales.

Sorry that I was unable to get more specific information. Maybe someone else got Mike to be more forthcoming and can provide better answers.

This was a good post no false info unlike the "JOE BLOWS" of the hobby...

 

Posted By Enginear on 06 Feb 2013 10:28 AM
Well then what has changed? MTH said when the catalog will be out. Why do you ask? If you need help finding their products or asking about them, here's a show they'll be at this weekend:
http://www.wghshow.com/
maybe it's close by??
The only one who's raised any doubts is.....some guy by the name jethor


???

 

Posted By Enginear on 06 Feb 2013 12:51 PM
Posted By Enginear on 06 Feb 2013 10:28 AM
Well then what has changed? MTH said when the catalog will be out. Why do you ask? If you need help finding their products or asking about them, here's a show they'll be at this weekend:
http://www.wghshow.com/
maybe it's close by??
The only one who's raised any doubts is.....some guy by the name jethor


???

 

Ah great someone else who can't read.....

 

Jim, did you just get a piece of artwork, or did someone photoshop that?

There's no catalog on the MTH site, so what are you stating?

I see it is stored on a google server, but MTH web stuff is on their server.

Greg

 

My "newer" MTH Gauge #1 Dash 8 Conrail is shown in a short video and also making a trip once around my indoor Bonanza Goldrush Railway. The metal figures located by the wood buildings with snow covered conifers are 1/32 scale. The metal figures elsewhere are approximately 1/22 scale.

My latest videos of this MTH Gauge #1 Conrail diesel are live at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8xij7HP2Eg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19MEp3wb_64

Bryan

 

I got a MTH G F7 off of Evil-Bay that has a bad PS-2 board (Magic Smoke),
I thought WHY NOT put in a PS-3 board.[/b]

Its snowing up the WA-ZOO, so I started to look at the PS-2/3 hardware differences.[/b]

I read in a few places that the PS-3 board was smaller.....not to these OLD eyes....[/b]
The X, Y and Z are about the same, the main difference is PS-2 has 2 boards
and MTH special mask chips.[/b]

The PS-3 is a single board with much smaller SMD (techno talk) and standard multi
sourced SMD parts. [/b]

There were things on the PS-2 board that a normal tech could replace (ie sound chip). [/b]
The PS-3 board appears to be a real BOARD SWAP only repair.[/b]

The PS-2 and PS-3 are not connector pin compatable.
They each require a unique wire harness and support devices[/b]
(Lights+LEDs vs LEDS only, different Tach strip reader, etc).

Sorry to send this topic 'off-track' somewhat - Maybe this reply should move!!!
What the heck - it somewhat related and could be what happens in 2013/14/15/etc...;^)..

[/b]

LEFT = PS-3 with caps rotated to view the circuit board RIGHT = PS-2[/b]

LEFT = PS-3 RIGHT = PS-2

LEFT = PS-3 RIGHT = PS-2

 

Here is a video outdoors on my Bonanza Goldrush Garden Railway showing the MTH Railking #1-gauge Dash 8 with sounds at beginning and nice smoking once around my layout.

http://youtu.be/ub-nN2JTj30

Bryan

 

is that side dump car mth or scratch?

 

It is the MTH Dump car, shown operating in the video below.

http://youtu.be/ByoerY7ELQU

Here is movie of several videos taken of my MTH Dash 8 pulling my tank cars outdoors.

http://youtu.be/4PwJiVLyudU

 

Hello all,
I'm also interested in the MTH line and considering the steam triplex. It looks very impressive. The scale is 1:32 so I'm wondering how it would look next to a Bachmann at the 1:20? Would it look smaller and out of proportion? Another question is the on-board electronics. They state compatibility with DCC but limitations. My main command station will be NCE Power Pro/10A and software interface TBD. I use JMRI DecoderPro for programming. Any advice much appreciated.

Len Jaskiewicz

 

Len,
I would completely forget about how the MTH Triplex and any Bachmann 1/20.3 locos might look together..
Its pretty much a non-issue..you wont want to run them together anyway..
the answer is "they will look really really weird running together!"

Scale is radically different.
prototype gauge is radically different.
prototype size is radically different.
Era is radically different..

Basically you are asking, how will this:

look running with this:

the answer is: really strange.
they simply dont "go together" at all..
they have nothing in common, except they both have flanged wheels and can run on the same tracks.

but its also your railroad, and you can run anything you want on it!
Just dont think they will "go together" in any reasonable way..because they wont.
but if you dont care about that, then go for it..

In cases like this, most people just run their "widely different" rolling stock in separate trains.
For example, I own USA Trains GP38-2 diesels, 1970's standard gauge diesels:

and Bachmann Spectrum moguls, 1870's narrow gauge steam:

I own both, because I love both..
I will happlily run both on my garden railroad, each with their own appropriate "matching trains"..
but I wont run them coupled *together*!
even though I could if I wanted to..
They might run past each other..which would be a prototypically inaccurate mismatch..
but again, that doesn't bother me..simply because "its my railroad" and I like both locomotives..
They dont "go together" at all, not even remotely..but "going together" is simply a non-issue in a case like this..
thats what I mean by "I would completely forget about how the MTH Triplex and any Bachmann 1/20.3 locos might look together..
Its pretty much a non-issue.."
if you like both, then own and run both..nothing wrong with that..
but "going together" isn't part of the equation..

Scot

 

here's the latest one