Monthly 2020 Vol. 1 Catalog Premier Spotlight
December 18, 2019 - Each month throughout the year, M.T.H. will be spotlighting various items from our 2020 O Gauge Volume 1 catalog. This month's feature will focus on the Premier O Scale Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy; the EMD SD70ACe Diesel Locomotive; the EMD SD70M Diesel Locomotive; the Alco RS-11 High Hood Diesel Locomotive; the G.E. ES44AC Diesel Locomotive; and select Premier Freight Cars
including the O Scale Extended Vision Caboose; 40' AAR Boxcar; and the Gondola Car with Bridge Girder. Each of these items is currently
slated to begin delivering in February 2020.
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U.P. 4-8-8-4 Big Boy - This enduring symbol of American railroading returns to the rails for 2020, complete with quillable, variable intensity steaming whistle. Blow the whistle from your DCS handheld controller, smartphone or tablet, and watch the whistle steam output vary as you "play" the whistle like a prototype engineer.
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EMD SD70ACe Diesel - The SD70ACe is EMD's hope for the future. While designed to meet the EPA's Tier-2 emissions requirements that took effect on January 1, 2005, this replacement for the SD70MAC also seems to have a higher purpose: to recapture the lead in North American locomotive sales that EMD lost to General Electric in 1987.
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EMD SD70M Diesel - In 1992, GM's Electro-Motive Division (EMD) introduced its new SD70 series of third-generation, computerized diesels. The standard DC-motored version was the SD70M, while the SD70MAC offered AC traction motors — a technology that would later become the new standard for mainline diesels. One glance at the design of the new SD70 series revealed enormous technological gains in railroading.
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Alco RS-11 Diesel - The RS-11 was Alco’s answer to the hugely popular Electro-Motive Geep. Alco had, after all, invented the road switcher: a multipurpose engine with great visibility fore and aft, capable of anything from slow-speed switching to full-throttle mainline hauling. And in the late 1940s and early ‘50s, Alco’s pioneering RS-1 and RS-3 had sold well.
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G.E. ES44AC Diesel - With a wave of consolidation behind it, North American railroading is once again a good business to be in. Freight traffic is booming. Locomotive orders are coming in at a record pace from the Big Seven roads that dominate rail transportation on the continent: Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Canadian National, and Canadian Pacific.
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Extended Vision Caboose - Before railroads, "caboose" referred to a small cookhouse on the deck of a sailing ship. Nobody knows for sure, but it was likely the 1850s before the first railroad caboose gave a train crew shelter from the weather. The Civil War-era marked the emergence of boxcar like cabin cars or conductor’s cars with side and perhaps end doors and windows.
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40' AAR Boxcar - The 40’ steel boxcar so familiar to model railroaders was a product of the 1930s. Wood box cars, which were built into the World War I era, and early steel cars were largely non-standardized, with details varying from railroad to railroad. The move toward standardization began with American Railway Association (ARA) designs of 1923 and 1932.
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Gondola Car w/Bridge Girder - On its customer Web site, the Union Pacific Railroad characterizes a gondola as an "extremely sturdy open design" for carrying "rugged unfinished commodities"; its "large flat interior design with sidewalls" is described as "more flexible than a flatcar."
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Each of the above Premier Line items can be ordered through any M.T.H. Authorized Retailer. To see the entire 2020 Volume 1 Premier Lineup, click here.
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O Gauge Items Just Released During The Week Of December 5, 2019
December 18, 2019 - To review last week's list of the O Gauge items M.T.H. Electric Trains released during the week of December 5, 2019 click HERE. You'll find these at your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer.
As always, you can stay apprised of the latest shipping dates by checking the M.T.H. Shipping Schedule. Once items have shipped, use the M.T.H. Product Locator to find a retailer reporting the item in stock.
2020 Volume 1 Catalog
Click HERE to see it online.
Hurry Before They're Gone, Just Five Or Fewer Of These O Gauge Items Remain In Stock
December 18, 2019 - Each week, M.T.H. releases product lists spotlighting quantities of Five Or Fewer Premier and RailKing items that are remaining in our onhand inventory. In many cases, these items will NOT be re-run in the future and these lists could be your last chance for ordering them before they're GONE FOR GOOD. Don't miss out on these items! Click on the appropriate product line link below and then any item number in the corresponding list to purchase that item from the M.T.H. Online Store or order directly from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer.
Premier O Scale 2-Rail
Premier O Scale 3-Rail
RailKing O Gauge
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