I Bought Another MTH Train Collection!! 

Very happy with mine as well!

Interesting! I actually have one of those at the moment

Thank you!

Thanks for watching. That’s a beautiful engine

Thank you and thanks for watching!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. I missed them on the first release as well. They’re tough to find nowadays but do pop up sometimes

Thank you!

Thanks buddy!

Thanks man!

Thanks for watching!

Great, thanks! I think I know the guy you got it from. I’m picking up another engine from him. Enjoy!

Thank you very much!

I actually learned that Mth still has some of the tooling. They’re looking into the possibility of running another European engine

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed

Thank you

Thank you!I I enjoy models that’s aren’t seen everyday

Very nice! Sounds like we have similar taste

Thanks Roger! Really enjoying the challenger

Thank you!

Agreed. When they first came out I didn’t pay much attention to them. Like many others, I was focused on legacy which was brand new and the plethora of other new tooling. Now many years later, I’ve realized how beautiful they are

Those are great deals!

Agreed. I’m not sure how successful they were with European customers. But they’re certainly sought after in the US 3 rail market

@@erictrainman European O scale is mostly 2 rail fine scale. Read this as super expensive and super detailed. MTH products were cheap by comparison, which should have given them a huge advantage. However, While I don’t have any specific numbers, it’s obvious either the MTH products didn’t perform well there, MTH lost interest, or maybe the market was just too small. Even the European manufacturers that I do follow because of my interest in Swiss g gauge don’t seem to do much O scale anymore, so it is indeed a tough market. I do know from following European forums that people were not impressed with the MTH motor and drive train quality and performance. In fact, some companies actually offered replacement motors and gears for the MTH engines. I would agree that the performance of MTH China drive and DCS speed control is often poor compared to European motors with ESU speed control. We just don’t know any better over here. As a result, I suspect the MTH products were viewed as cheap in a negative sense over there. I’m not trying to knock MTH here since I think their goal was to offer affordable and good looking o gauge in Europe, which is a noble goal, but they may not have fully understood the market.

@@GlennFresch thanks for the detailed explanation! I didn’t know that. Makes sense

Learn something new everyday

Do you know what the French words are that are said, with the sound effects. Do you know what they’re saying?

@@lucasquintanilla1673 nope! Unfortunately I don’t speak French

@@erictrainman what a shame! I was really curious to see what they were saying. Do you know exactly where the Nord express went to? I had never heard of it until I just saw this video about now.

@@lucasquintanilla1673 I’m sure you could google translate it. I just haven’t done it. Wikipedia has some good info on the nord

Agreed! Unfortunately I believe the tooling has been sold to Lenz

Always wanted an MTH European. I remember years ago one on-line dealer discounting a couple models to get rid of them. Should've snagged one then.

@@erictrainman Who is Lenz?

Very cool!

Thank you! While that genset is a beauty, I’m more of a steam guy!

True!

😂 that’s fair! They are beautiful though

@@erictrainman yes they are I’d love to have one. It would be nice if our American models got the love they deserve lol

Thank you

😂

To each his own

Agreed!

😂 it was a good deal

@@erictrainman 👁👁

They’re out there!