Uncataloged O Gauge Premier 40′ Reefer Cars Announced

April 19, 2021 – M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced a series of uncataloged Premier O Scale Flat Cars w/PUP Trailers in several liveries for exclusive distribution for M.T.H. Authorized Retailer Stockyard Express. Each car is limited in production and is only available directly from Stockyard Express for just $69.95 (Plus Freight). Delivery is slated for July 2021.

Item No. 20-94463 Land O’Lakes Reefer Car
Car No. 1921 and 1926
MSRP: $69.95

Item No. 20-94464 Santa Fe Reefer Car
Car No. 4090 and 4099
MSRP: $69.95

Item No. 20-94465 Morton Salt Reefer Car
Car No. 1848 and 1910
MSRP: $69.95

ABOUT THE PREMIER 40′ REEFER CAR

The coming of the railroad changed the way America ate and drank. Before the iron horse connected every town of any importance to the outside world, most food was grown or produced locally. The arrival of cheap, fast, refrigerated transport — in the form of the woodsided reefer with ice bunkers at each end — enabled local brewers, dairies, meat processors, and other food businesses to become players on a national scale. Among other things, the reefer enabled Chicago to become “Hog Butcher for the World”; in pre-reefer days, livestock had been transported to local markets and butchered as close as possible to the final consumer.

In the 19th Century, ice for reefers was harvested from frozen ponds each winter and stored as well as possible in insulated icehouses. The advent of mechanical ice-making around 1900 greatly increased the capacity of the reefer fleet, which at its height consumed over one million tons of ice annually. Since loaded cars needed to be re-iced about once per day, icing stations were erected around the country on shipping routes that could be as long as coast-to-coast.

Stockyard Express
49293 Plate Road
Oberlin, OH 44074
(440)774-2131
www.stockyardexpressllc.com
Email: [email protected]

Updated MTH Premier In Stock Engines

Only Available at Stockyard Express – Custom Run Operating Camp Claiborne Water Tower !!

Give your military train a more custom look with this operating water tower. Camp Claiborne was a training ground for various units, including U.S. Army train personnel! 30-11095 – $149.95

Uncataloged Limited Edition Premier Union Pacific Big Boy Steam Locomotives Announced

January 13, 2021 – M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced a special limited-edition release of the Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Steam Locomotive in the Premier O Scale product lines. These unique releases are part of a series of products representing the last M.T.H. production runs as the company concludes its 40-year history this Spring.

Each of these locomotives can be ordered from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer.

INCLUDES AUTHENTICITY CERTIFICATES

Each locomotive will include a signed Certificate of Authenticity by M.T.H. President Mike Wolf and are available in two different versions – No. 4014 Oil Burner in current Union Pacific gloss Restoration livery and No. 4014 Original Coal Burner. Production quantities of the Premier models are limited to 150 of the Restoration Oil Burner and 50 of the Original Coal Burner. Models outfitted with the Restoration livery include the “Big Boy” chalk lettering on the boiler front, tender water level markings and a sound set celebrating the excursion runs of 2019.

Writer Henry Comstock beautifully described the Big Boy’s place at the apex of steam engine history: “A Union Pacific ‘Big Boy’ was 604 tons and 19,000 cubic feet of steel and coal and water, poised upon 36 wheels spaced no wider apart than those of an automobile. That it could thunder safely over undulating and curved track at speeds in excess of 70 miles an hour was due in large measure to the efforts of two long-forgotten pioneers. As early as 1836, the basic system that held its wheels in equalized contact with the rails was patented by a Philadelphian named Joseph Harrison; and a French technical writer, Anatole Mallet, first thought to couple two driving units heel to toe below one boiler in 1874.”

This enduring symbol of American railroading returns to the rails for the last time from M.T.H. Electric Trains in 2021, complete with quillable, variable intensity steaming whistle. Blow the whistle from your DCS handheld controller, smartphone or tablet, and watch the whistle steam output vary as you “play” the whistle like a prototype engineer.

All models include a powerful motor for pulling power and speed that rival the original Big Boy, as well as authentic articulated chuffing sounds simulating the two drive trains drifting in and out of synch.

2021 BIG BOY LOCOMOTIVE OFFERINGS

Item No. 20-3807-1 Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Steam Engine (Oil Burner) With Proto-Sound 3.0 (Hi-Rail Wheels)
Car No. 4014
MSRP: $1699.95

Item No. 22-3807-2 Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Steam Engine (Oil Burner) With Proto-Sound 3.0 (Scale Wheels)
Car No. 4014
MSRP: $1699.95

Item No. 20-3808-1 Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy (Original) Steam Engine With Proto-Sound 3.0 (Hi-Rail Wheels)
Car No. 4014
MSRP: $1699.95

Item No. 22-3808-2 Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy (Original) Steam Engine With Proto-Sound 3.0 (Scale Wheels)
Car No. 4014
MSRP: $1699.95

Each of these locomotives can be ordered from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer.

Uncataloged Premier O Scale BNSF 25th Anniversary Diesels Announced

December 29, 2020 – M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced an uncataloged Premier O Scale ES44 Diesel in special BNSF 28th Anniversary livery slated for delivery during the Spring of 2021. There will be two series of cab numbers – three of each – in the production run to celebrate BNSF’s 25th Anniversary.

Preorder price for each BNSF 25th Anniversary Diesel is $459.95
Last day to order at this price is January 15, 2021.
Delivery is scheduled April 2021.
Call us @ (440) 774-2131 to reserve yours today!

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