MTL May 2023 releases

[Bill H]

https://www.nscalesupply.com/mtl/mtl-new2305.html

[thomasjmdavis]

Cattle and sheep loads!
OK, I know what I'll be ordering this month.

[chessie system fan]

Heads up, on the B&O covered hopper, N Scale Supply used the same picture as last month's car.  The Micro Trains website shows a different road number.

[C855B]

Not a single Union Pacific item. Will wonders ever cease?

(The Rio Grande flat doesn't count. Waaaaay before Borg era.)

[reinhardtjh]

Heads up, on the B&O covered hopper, N Scale Supply used the same picture as last month's car.  The Micro Trains website shows a different road number.

I think N Scale Supply goofed on one of the MT&L cars too, with the hopper listed twice.  Once next to the picture of the 60' excess height box car.

[Missaberoad]

(The Rio Grande flat doesn't count. Waaaaay before Borg era.)

Mike,

Is it tho? 

Apparently these cars were long lived. Here is 21061 in 2002.
Love the COTS panels covering the Rio Grande, 2 panel version too so that was done by the Grande themselves. 

https://rr-fallenflags.org/drgw/drgw21061ava.jpg

[dem34]

Not a single Union Pacific item. Will wonders ever cease?

(The Rio Grande flat doesn't count. Waaaaay before Borg era.)

Not a single Conrail item. Where is this world going? 

It'll come around, in the meantime. I like the detail on the B&O hopper, going to look at home dirtied up pulled by a coast guard RS3.

[ljudice]

NS/ACY MofW Boxcar is tempting....

[Bill H]

Not a single Conrail item. Where is this world going? 

It'll come around, in the meantime. I like the detail on the B&O hopper, going to look at home dirtied up pulled by a coast guard RS3.

Did you notice the price on that hopper?

[thomasjmdavis]

Did you notice the price on that hopper?

The detail on that hopper puts it into a higher class of car- think ScaleTrains or Rapido. The cost of the etched bits and extra labor gets passed on to the consumer, just like it is with other brands making comparable models. When compared to the MSRP (and lately even "street price" sometimes) of  recent Bachmann offerings, it looks like a real bargain. (Now, if we can only talk MTL into doing the early PS-2 with 1st and last channel ribs for us pre-1957 types...)
from the MTL listing:

Prototypically accurate paint schemes & markings
Body mounted Magne-Matic® couplers
33” factory-installed metal wheels
Fine-scale cored-through walkway
Correct ride height
Separate roof hatches
Over 25 factory installed parts

[robert3985]

The detail on that hopper puts it into a higher class of car- think ScaleTrains or Rapido. The cost of the etched bits and extra labor gets passed on to the consumer, just like it is with other brands making comparable models. When compared to the MSRP (and lately even "street price" sometimes) of  recent Bachmann offerings, it looks like a real bargain. (Now, if we can only talk MTL into doing the early PS-2 with 1st and last channel ribs for us pre-1957 types...)
from the MTL listing:

Yup.  What he said...

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore