Such a beautiful set! MTH is a better deal, plain and simple. Especially the later stuff when they added people and upgraded the designs. We have one set of 21" cars, and they look too big at times. One engine has trouble pulling all 8, and you need 072 curves. I much prefer 18" - Ryan
I have several MTH Premier Pennsy, NYC and Strasburg passenger cars that I have gotten over the years, all with figures. The Pennsy and NYC sets were all used, and I think on average I paid less than $50/ car. Just can't afford $200/ car for the new ones. That's a great looking set you have there!
Totally agree on your comments! My preference MTH vs LIONEL. Two reasons especially these days. Better quality control, cost wise a little less expensive. When MTH was the major competitor they kept Lionel's prices reasonable.
Honestly, I think that the details and price range is better then Lionels passenger car sets. The only thing I will say about Lionel is that I do like there station sounds cars from the early 2000s only. considering that alot of their merchandise is now unfortunately being made in china today. MTH overall has the best quality product today. Great job on video Sam! Hope too see you at the show this Friday 🚂
If I had this set, I would be adding more sitting passenger people into the seats and all. I have the western Atlantic Railroad passenger cars in O scale and they are MTH passenger cars and I have added sitting people in the passenger cars and made a double bathroom in each car. I plan to get more of the overton western Atlantic passenger cars and the other rolling stock cars for that set I am going to be making.
I just love MTH - for all the reasons you mention but also the DCS control system. TMCC and Legacy just seem so clumsy and not intuitive. I have over 80 MTH loco and hundreds of coaches and goods wagons - I only have 5 Lionel locos and a few early wagons. However I do love the Lionel John Bull set. Good video Sam! Cheers Pete - Sydney, Australia.
MTH was always a great value for the money spent, just as Mr. Mike intended. And those 18" cars look just fine. Interestingly I've seen scale passenger cars, 21-inchers, from various makers and to my eyes they just don't look "right," if you follow my meaning. The selectively-compressed cars in O Gauge always look much better on the average layout, in my opinion anyway. And those 20th Century Limited cars look great! Thanks for posting!
@@huntercoleman460 I do, all RailKing (great value for money) and too much to go into. Briefly I've got the Blue Comet set, New York Central 20th Century and Madison sets, PRR Madison sets, and N&W Powhatan Ltd set, 19th Century passenger sets, plus a whole buncha boxcars. I've never been disappointed with any of them, all good buys.
Just found your channel and enjoyed the discussion of MTH's passenger cars. Out of curiosity, is that an MTH One Gauge Hudson in the background? I had a 700' outdoor setup at my last house and I ran live steam and MTH One Gauge, including the Hudson, Big Boy, Challenger, etc.
I agree MTH is superior in both quality and price for their O gage trains. Lionel is loosing its reputation for quality products and the prices they are charging are just too high. I hope MTH continues with expanding their line since they now provide the better product at better prices.
The later MTH 18” cars are great. As said above the bang for the buck is there. I think overall 18” cars are great wether it’s MTH now Atlas or older Lionel. I have a 18” set of Lionel Steamlines and they have great interiors and highly detailed. Not sure why the 21” cars have no people and monochromatic interiors but doubled in price. Also I am just glad the green windows are supposed to be no longer in Lionel heavyweights 😂
I do like MTH better then the new lionel stuff that has come out, lionel is 100% way out of control with there prices on all of there items they are selling.
Definitely good looking cars at a great price, I personally love mth pretty much all my stuff on layout, I have the C&o set very happy with Great video and info I just subscribe to your channel look forward to future videos 👍Thanks (Eddie @elwtrains)
