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Monthly RailKing 2019 Volume 2 O Gauge Catalog Product Spotlight

July 21, 2019 - Each month throughout the year, M.T.H. will be spotlighting various items from our RailKing 2019 Volume 2 O Gauge Catalog.  This week's feature will focus on the RailKing Union Pacific Challenger passenger sets and separate sale locomotives; and EMD F-3 Passenger Sets in New York Ontario & Western, Union Pacific, Pennsylvania, and Chicago Great Western liveries. Each of these items is currently slated to begin delivering in September 2019.

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UP Challenger Steam Passenger Set - 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.  continue reading UP Challenger Locomotive - 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.  continue reading
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NYO&W F-3 Passenger Set - When the prototype railroads began to dieselize in the 1940s, model train manufacturers soon followed, recognizing that boys wanted models of the newest trains they were seeing on real railroads. One of the initial toy train forays into dieseldom was a Lionel replica of the best-selling diesel of the day, the F3 "covered wagon" made by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors.  continue reading Union Pacific F-3 Passenger Set - Recognizing that EMD and the railroads were anxious to publicize their modern motive power, General Motors, the Santa Fe Railroad, and the New York Central Railroad helped share the cost of dies for the original models in exchange for having their names on engines that appeared on virtually every boy's holiday wishlist for years.  continue reading
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Pennsylvania F-3 Passenger Set - In the end, it seems the Santa Fe got the best deal, as its red, yellow, and silver "warbonnet" F3s remained a popular fixture on model railroad locomotives longer than any other railroad livery.  continue reading Chicago Great Western F-3 Passenger Set - To this day, the F3 diesels of the late 1940s and early 1950s are recognized as some of the best toys ever produced. Virtually full O gauge scale models, they were tremendously dependable, highly detailed for their time, and terrific pullers.  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 2 RailKing Lineup, click here.


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

July 31, 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

2019 Volume 2 O Gauge Catalog Now Online

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2019 Ready-to-Run Train Set Catalog Now Online

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