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I've reviewed the MTH Premier woodsided passenger cars.  These are models of late 19th century cars that go very well with the Premier line models of locomotives from the same era, such as the exquisite model of the New York Central #999, and are probably the finest passenger cars yet produced by MTH.  A photo of one is below; there are lots more photos with the review on my Train Reviews page.

I also notice that I've neglected to mention that MTH DCS v.4.01 was released.  This point release corrects the problem with Rev. G TIUs that I mentioned previously.  There's one small bug in this release (you show me software without bugs and I'll show you vaporware) that affects only the older 5v PS2 locomotives — if you move one of those locomotives to the inactive list, you'll be unable to move it back to the active list without first deleting it and then re-adding it.  The simple work-around is to just not make such a locomotive inactive in the first place (yes, I know, lash-ups are a special case).  I expect that there will be another bug-fix point release in the not-too-distant future.

I've been remiss about doing reviews over the last few months, I don't quite know why.  With the new Cab Forward however, that comes to an end.  The review is done and appears on my Train Reviews page as well as in my Train Forum.  Photos of this new gem of a model appear on my Cab Forwards page.  And here it is in all its glory!

First, the new toy.  I picked up the new MTH Premier Southern Pacific Cab Forward the other day.  Way back when, MTH had issued a PS1 model of this steamer and I have it.  This one is equipped with PS2 and the difference is like day and night (you can compare them as I now have videos of both of them posted on my web site and on YouTube).  For this reissue, MTH has, of course, increased the level of detail and made it available in two different models, as-built (as was the original model) or with the updated cab front that SP used when they rebuilt some of these huge locomotives.  I went with the updated front.  As you can see in the new video available on my Multimedia page as well as on YouTube (link below) it looks and sounds great!

Speaking of YouTube, I started posting my videos there about 14 months ago and I now have (with this new one) 88 train videos.  In those 14 months, the videos have racked up a total of over ONE MILLION views!  That is just totally mind blowing!