Monthly RailKing 2019 Volume 1 O Gauge Catalog Product Spotlight

April 24, 2019 - Each month throughout the year, M.T.H. will be spotlighting various items from our RailKing 2019 Volume 1 O Gauge Catalog.  This week's feature will focus on the RailKing 4-4-0 Steam Locomotive passenger sets in Union Pacific and Central Pacific liveries; the EMD MP15 diesel switcher; the EMD GP-20 Diesel; and select RailKing rolling stock including the Slag Car; Gondola with LCL Containers; 34' Box Car; and the Bay Window caboose. Each of these items is currently slated to begin delivering in June 2019.

Union Pacific 4-4-0 Steam Passenger Set - Just four years after the war that nearly tore the nation apart, the fledgling railroad industry helped bind it together again. On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, with the gentle tapping of four precious metal spikes, the first transcontinental railroad was completed.  continue reading		Central Pacific 4-4-0 Steam Passenger Set - The two engines - one Central Pacific and one Union Pacific - that touched noses at the Golden Spike ceremony, coming from east and west, were both 4-4-0’s — a wheel arrangement celebrated in Currier & Ives prints and so prevalent on U.S. railroads that it was called the American.   continue reading

MP15 Diesel Switcher - The MP15 was the last in a line of EMD end-cab switchers that stretched back to the prewar SW1. By the time the MP15 debuted in 1974, the multipurpose road switcher, descended from the Alco RS-series and the EMD GP7, had become the universal locomotive.                   continue reading		EMD GP-20 Diesel - In the late `50s, railroads were looking for units with high-horsepower output. General Electric and Alco obliged by releasing units with 2,400 and 2,500-h.p. capability. General Motor's Electro-Motive Division, at first, was reluctant to chime in.           continue reading

Slag Car - High quality, traditionally sized RailKing Freight Cars provide detailed bodies and colorful paint schemes for the O Gauge railroader. MTH makes an enormous variety of RailKing Freight Cars, including many different car types and roadnames. No matter what era or part of the country you are modeling, RailKing is sure to have something for you.                   continue reading		Gondola Car w/LCL Containers - In the March 1921 issue of Shipper & Carrier magazine, a bold headline announced "New York Central Inaugurates New ‘Container Car’ Express Service." The accompanying photo depicted a gondola loaded with nine identical locked steel containers.           continue reading

34' Box Car - In the beginning, American railway equipment followed British practices. But the open gondola, which remained the basic British merchandise car for over a century, was not as well suited to American needs.                   continue reading		Bay Window Caboose - As freight cars grew taller, observing a train from the cupola of a caboose became increasingly difficult. In the wooden car era, another problem with cupola cabooses was sagging roofs.           continue reading

Each of the above RailKing Line items can be ordered through any M.T.H. Authorized Retailer. To see the entire 2019 Volume 1 RailKing Lineup, click here.

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

April 24, 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

Lionel Corporation Tinplate

Premier O Scale 2-Rail

Premier O Scale 3-Rail

RailKing O Gauge

M.T.H. S Gauge

Tinplate Traditions

Lionel Corporation Tinplate Newsletters To End

April 24, 2019 - This week's Lionel Corporation Tinplate e-newsletter will be the last newsletter to our tinplate subscribers to sport the LCT header at the top of the newsletter. With the conclusion of our decade long licensing agreement for tinplate reproductions with Lionel, the Lionel Corporation Tinplate newsletter will be shuttered. Subscribers will continue to receive occasional Tinplate Traditions newsletters as warranted.

You can learn more about the conclusion of the Lionel Corporation Tinplate product line by reading last Fall's announcement HERE.

2019 Volume 2 O Gauge Catalog Now Online

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