Model Train Journal

This forum is checked only once a week - OGR is far more dynamic but probably will have a new owner this year and they may start charging to be a member. I am 70 but still buy new trains and recently started buying MTH after 16 years. MTH fans are definitely a minority on the forum and one member se...

Later British steam - mainly 4-6-2s and 2-10-0s - were some of best looking steam in the world. A lot of the piping was enclosed, some of them were streamlined, and attractively painted. The president of the US Southern railroad after visiting England decided to paint all the SRR passenger locomotiv...

I do know that Kline's J1E (5344) even with the U shaped boiler is still the best detailed diecast Hudson ever made - bought mine in 2003 for about 550, soon needed warranty work which Kline promptly repaired and still runs today. Also bought 100 Kline club PRR A5 and GG1 - were the best bargains in...

Whether you use the smoke feature or not current MTH trains do have advantages. As Robert has alluded to they have some uncommon(not usually modeled on O gauge) locomotives both diesel and steam and European prototypes as well. Running a Proto 3 loco in conventional mode reminds me of a Lionel TMCC ...

Neil, MTH offers more variety in both diesels and steam than Lionel , some that will probably never be produced in O gauge by anybody else( examples - PRR H-3 and Baldwin road switcher and a scale EP5 and NYC 4-4-0 999 and GN S-2 4-8-4 and the original CNJ 300 hp box switcher and a real GP20 model a...

Wayne - here is what happens on legacy locomotives running in conventional mode (Z1000 chopped wave). When you fill the locomotive for the first time it smokes well. When its time to refill adding fluid gives only limited smoke. Refill again and usually no smoke. Eventually adding smoke again causes...

Of course its really vaporized mineral oil - the same principle that A C Gilbert used starting in 1946. My first memories of an electric train was a AF K5 set my father brought home about 1950. The only animation (well it also had a headlight and cho cho sounds)was the cedar smelling 'smoke' coming ...

About 18 years ago I was a MTH fan then in part because of Bob Grubba and others Lionel started to catch up - then there was the law suit, et al. Purchased 6 Legacy diesels in 2014 (blowout sales were common then before BTO) only to discover they will not smoke for long in conventional - Lionel has ...