Monthly Archives: December 2008

An Interesting Development

MTH Electric Trains has licensed the Lionel and American Flyer names from Lionel LLC for use on MTH tinplate toy train reproductions.  While MTH has been able to use the Ives name for some time (such as on the Olympian … Continue reading

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A New Video and Video News

The MTH Ives Olympian Standard Gauge set that I talked about below deserved to have its own video and now it does.  It appears on the Multimedia page of my web site as well as on YouTube. While you can … Continue reading

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More Reefers, More Madness

Will it never stop?  Atlas released five more forty-foot woodsided reefers, their seventeenth regular issue.  Well, it was supposed to be five but one of the cars has two different paint schemes for the two road numbers, so there are … Continue reading

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A Visit With Mike Wolf (And A New Train!)

This past Friday, my friend Bob and I went down to Trenton to visit with Mike Wolf, the president of MTH Electric Trains.  He was visiting Trains & Things, a very nice train store down there.  Mike hadn't been around … Continue reading

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