Great report Mel. MTH's schedule makes sense to me if they are going to get it right. - Earl Henry, Nashville In a message dated 2/25/2013 8:57:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
at this past weekends wgh show in sacto, i had a chance to talk with mth's reps (one of whom was the spitting image of mike wolf, but denied it), anyway the 2013 catalogs are being delayed another month in their distribution, and the reason given was that mth wanted to make sure that they had sufficient product for the roll out of the catalog, next the time span for this year's releases is as follows, late spring will be for track work and switches only, late summer/early fall will be for rolling stock, they will not pre advertise what they are going to release, however 90% of the rolling stock will be new paint schemes, and the remaining 10% will be repaints of old schemes that shs originally did, mth thinks that these will sell, due to pent up demand, lastly, late winter/pre christmas, will see the release of the f-3's, the f-7's, 2-8-0's and switchers will be released in 2014, this is due to re-engineering mth's electronics to fit these models, the earliest that any new product might appear is 2015, and that is based on how the early releases sell, mth's process for selecting new models, is rather lengthly and comprehensive, at a point in the process the public's input, as well as dealer's input will be consider, but bear in mind, this is an inhouse process, so please keep the negative comments and disappointment to your selves, as this site is read frequently, if not daily by mth, lets give them a chance first, before we resort to crucifiction mel perry
