Monthly RailKing 2020 Volume 1 O Gauge Catalog Product Spotlight

June 24, 2020 - Each month throughout the year, M.T.H. will be spotlighting various items from our RailKing 2020 Volume 1 O Gauge Catalog.  This week's feature will focus on the RailKing ES44 Diesel Freight Sets in Donald J. Trump, Joe Biden, CSX First Responders, CSX Veterans, and CSX Law Enforcement liveries. Each of these items is currently slated to begin delivering in August 2020.

Donald J Trump ES44 Diesel Set - If you’ve been a fan of our traditionally themed specialty items over the past 10 years, then this locomotive and caboose set is the perfect way to build your very own political train.  continue reading

Joe Biden ES44 Diesel Set - With its realistic sounds and variable-intensity exhaust smoke, this Imperial series diesel, and its bay-window caboose make great bookends to your politically-themed collection — no matter whether you’ve got every car in the series or are just starting out.   continue reading		CSX First Responders Diesel Set - Our near-scale model of General Electric’s ES44AC diesel is a full 17" in length, yet operates comfortably on O-31 curves. Under the hood is the very same Proto-Sound 3.0 sound and control package found in our more expensive Premier model of this loco. continue reading

CSX Veterans Diesel Set - Imperial features include operating diesel exhaust smoke, flashing ditch lights, colorful charging lights running the length of the body, and unique stump speech sound effects.   continue reading		CSX Law Enforcement Diesel Set - If you’re looking for a locomotive to celebrate CSX's special commemorative paint schemes, and powerful enough to pull all of our traditional freight cars, it doesn’t get any better than this!   continue reading

Each of the above RailKing Line items can be ordered through any M.T.H. Authorized Retailer. To see the entire 2020 Volume 1 RailKing Lineup, click here.

HO GP38-2 Diesels Now In Stock

June 24, 2020 - The M.T.H. HO Pittsburgh & Lake Erie and Indiana Southern GP38-2 diesels have arrived and are now shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers. The locomotives are available in limited quantities at your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer or directly from the M.T.H. website.

About the HO GP38-2 Diesel

Produced from 1972 to 1986, the GP38-2 helped inaugurate Electro-Motive’s "Dash-2" series of locomotives and became one of EMD’s all-time best sellers. With over 2200 engines sold throughout North America, rare was the railroad that did not roster these reliable, second-generation EMD workhorses.

Building on the success of the GP38 introduced in 1966, the Dash-2 model looked almost identical on the outside but incorporated a host of internal upgrades that lowered exhaust emissions and improved reliability, ease of maintenance, and tractive effort. Most significant was the replacement of the maze of hard-wired circuits, switches, interlocks, and relays — which had characterized first-generation diesels and had been the source of many of their service issues — with modular, solid-state electronics. Other improvements toughened the pistons, rings, and bearings of the 2000-horsepower, non-turbocharged model 645 prime mover.

The result was an engine so hard working and dependable that it became as common on American railroads as the F-unit was in the 1950s and ‘60s. Trains magazine recognized this in 1982 by designating B&O GP38 #3802 (a pre-Dash-2 model) as the All American Diesel; the engine resides today in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, repainted in its 1982 Chessie System colors. Many GP38-2s have soldiered on for more than three decades and remain in service today on short lines and regional railroads.

You can see the locomotive in action on video by clicking HERE.

These locomotives are still available to order from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer. They can also be ordered directly from M.T.H. by calling the M.T.H. Sales Department at 410-381-2580 or by visiting the M.T.H. website.

Monthly 2019 S Gauge Catalog Product Spotlight

June 24, 2020 - Each month throughout the year, M.T.H. will be spotlighting various items from our 2019-2020 S Gauge Catalog.  This week's feature will focus on the S Gauge Extended Vision Caboose in Santa Fe livery. Each of these cabooses featured in the 2019-2020 S Gauge Catalog is currently slated to begin delivering in June 2020.

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, windows, a heating and cooking stove, bunks, and roof lanterns to mark the end of the train.   continue reading

Each of these items is available for order now from any M.T.H. Authorized Retailer or by contacting the M.T.H. Sales Department at 410-381-2580.

To see the entire 2019-2020 S Gauge Catalog lineup, click here.

2020 Volume 2 O Gauge Catalog Now Online

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Hurry Before They're Gone, Just Five Or Fewer Of These Items Remain In Stock

June 24, 2020 - Each week, M.T.H. releases product lists spotlighting quantities of Five Or Fewer 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.

RailKing One Gauge

M.T.H. HO Scale

Premier O Scale 2-Rail

Premier O Scale 3-Rail

RailKing O Gauge

M.T.H. S Gauge

Tinplate Traditions

2020 Ready-to-Run Train Set Catalog Now Online

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2020-21 HO Gauge Catalog To Be Released Online on Friday, June 26, 2020

June 24, 2020 - M.T.H. Electric Trains will publish its 2020-21 HO catalog to the M.T.H. website beginning Friday morning, June 26th.

When the catalog goes live next week, it can be viewed online by clicking the following links:

2020-21 HO Scale Catalog

This catalog will NOT be printed and mailed to M.T.H. mailing list subscribers, MTHRRC Railroaders Club members or M.T.H. Authorized Retailers.

2019 - 2020 S Gauge Catalog Now Online

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