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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.


HO Big Boy Arriving In January With Smoking Whistle

Check Out It Out In Action In All-New Video

December 18, 2019 - Arriving in January 2020, the M.T.H. HO Big Boy features our first-ever steaming quillable whistle in HO scale. One of many features of the onboard Proto-Sound 3.0 Digital Sound and Command Control package, the whistle feature can be triggered using the DCS Digital Command System or any DCC Controller's F7 Function.

Writer Henry Comstock beautifully described the Big Boy’s place at the apex of steam engine history: "A Union Pacific ‘Big Boy’ was 604 tons and 19,000 cubic feet of steel and coal and water, poised upon 36 wheels spaced no wider apart than those of an automobile. That it could thunder safely over the undulating and curved track at speeds in excess of 70 miles an hour was due in large measure to the efforts of two long-forgotten pioneers. As early as 1836, the basic system that held its wheels in equalized contact with the rails was patented by a Philadelphian named Joseph Harrison; and a French technical writer, Anatole Mallet, first thought to couple two driving units heel to toe below one boiler in 1874."

This enduring symbol of American railroading returns to the rails featuring our industry-leading speed control and synchronized puffing smoke output, as well as authentic articulated chuffing sounds with the front and rear engines drifting in and out of sync.

Like all M.T.H. locomotives, our new Big Boy offers HO scale’s finest combination of detail, realism, and performance. Listen to the chuff of the drive wheels as they sync in and out of each other, and throttle down as low as three scale miles per hour so you can admire the details as the Big Boy glides past.

You can see the locomotive in action on video by clicking HERE. Check out all the cab number and configuration offerings by going 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.


Have You Ordered Your RailKing One Gauge G Scale Challenger Yet

Check Out The Quick Start Video

August 28, 2019 - The first Challengers were conceived in 1936 as fast freight engines to replace the Union Pacific’s fleet of three-cylinder 4-12-2 locomotives. With an extra center cylinder for added power and a top speed of 45 mph, the 4-12-2s had been successful freight engines when built in 1926. But a decade later they were considered slow and difficult to maintain.

So American Locomotive Works (Alco) was commissioned to build what became one of the most successful fleets of articulated engines on any railroad. Forty Challengers were built in the 1930s. The pressure of wartime traffic brought an order for 65 more with bigger tenders and many minor improvements.

The Challengers were steam power at its zenith. They incorporated all the technology that represented super-power steam, including roller bearings on all axles and drive rods — but none of the foolishness that characterized some of the desperate efforts to save steam in the post-war years. Most Challengers were assigned to freight duty, but a number were designated for passenger service, hustling 20-car trains across mountains and deserts to California and Oregon at speeds up to 70 mph.

It was in a roundabout way that six Challengers ordered by the UP ended up hauling coal through the Appalachians for the Clinchfield Railroad. In the midst of World War II, the War Production Board refused the Rio Grande’s request to order new articulateds of its own design from Baldwin Locomotive Works. Instead, the Board diverted the last six Challengers in UP’s order to the Rio Grande — which turned up its nose at the locos and decided to lease them for the duration rather than buying them. After the war’s end, the Rio Grande returned the unwanted engines to the government. In 1947, the War Assets Administration sold the orphan locos to the Atlantic Coast Line and Louisville & Nashville Railroads, which put the Challengers to work on their jointly-owned subsidiary, the Clinchfield, Carolina & Ohio. Thus a group of engines intended to speed over western deserts and mountains ended up thundering through Appalachia.

Our replica of this iconic engine returns to the RailKing lineup for 2019, newly updated with wireless drawbar, LED lighting, DCC as well as DCS command receivers, and all the additional features of Proto-Sound 3.0.

You can see the details of the locomotive on video by clicking HERE.

Click HERE to learn more about these latest releases.

These limited production locomotives can be ordered for immediate delivery through any M.T.H. Authorized Retailer or directly from the M.T.H. Online Store.


Monthly 2019 S Gauge Catalog Product Spotlight

December 18, 2019 - Each month throughout the year, M.T.H. will be spotlighting various items from our 2019 S Gauge Catalog.  This week's feature will focus on the S Gauge Rebuilt Steel Box Car in RF&P livery. Each of these rebuilt box cars featured in the 2019 S Gauge Catalog is currently slated to begin delivering in March 2020.

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Rebuilt Steel Boxcar - During and after World War I, American railroads took delivery of tens of thousands of boxcars built to USRA designs: single or double-sheathed wooden sides, wooden doors, and steel ends, roofs and underframes. By the late 1920s, however, all-steel cars had become the norm, although new car construction slowed to a crawl during the Depression.   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 S Gauge Catalog lineup, click here.

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

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

December 18, 2019 - 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


It's Easy To Add WiFi To Your DCS Layout

Check Out The Quick Start Video

Click HERE To Learn More About DCS and WiFi Control


2019 HO Scale Catalog Now Online

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2019 RailKing One Gauge G Scale Catalog Now Online

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2019-2020 S Gauge Catalog Now Online

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