God, I remember getting this tape as a reward from, of all people, my piano teacher, who was also a train nut. He would regularly give me his old Lionel and MTH catalogues and I remember spending many happy hours as a kid on the bus looking and day-dreaming of them
I agree. I'm more of a Lionel guy, but I do love MTH as well and Lionel would not be where it is today with its products had it not been for MTH revolutionizing the O gauge market in the 90's and early 2000's. Last year I bought my first MTH train, a Rail King loco-sound Blue Comet 4-6-2 engine which I love. I also recently bought the first Rail King train set made by MTH back in 1995, a NYC Mohawk freight set. I'm still mainly a Lionel guy because of the history and nostalgia it made for many people for the past 120 years, but I love all the other brands of model railroading and MTH is up there for me along with American Flyer, Marx, K-line, Atlas, ETC.
@@NguageTrains I couldn't agree more. That's why run old American Flyer, S-Helper, American Models and in O/027 scale, older MTH and Marx trains. I question the sanity of those running Lionel. ho is their market? Older folks who supported Lionel are dying off, the ebay market is glutted and fat and younger people, even if interested are pushed away by the prices. How many $1500-$2500 engines can you sell? Third rail offers better quality at a price either competitive or better than Lionel. It's what I was afraid would happen. Without another heavy hitter, and Atlas has not come up to bat yet, Lionel proceeds from arrogance and unquestioned dominance and acts and charges the part.....like most of congress, the useless imposter in the White House, and the media. There still is value and lower priced trains out there and it will get better. It's a matter of numbers. Finally, I detest China, NAFTA/GATT and the gutting of our industries. Give me American made stuff and trains. I've had" Chinanel" stuff and it is garbage. Blessings, Bill
@@105C09 right here with you 100% I love to buying Weaver trains because they were made in America and they were less expensive than the Chinese ones imported by mph and Lionel. I look at the list of the locomotives they had available in 1998 and I wish I could have bought one of everything. I would not trust anything built by Lionel today at all they live on a name and nothing else. Just like Harley-Davidson . I mourned the loss Victory Motorcycles and I mourn the loss of Mike's train house.
Except for their track! when my dad and I used to go to the train store, They used Lionel track, but ran MTH trains. I bought so many pieces and they were shotty. With my mth California Zephyr set. All ways ended up with a dead unit. That was about 15 years ago, so maybe they improved but I’m getting back in the hobby at 27, and I’m so glad I finally make money to buy my own locos and cars, etc.. I hope more people my age will get back into model railroading, when I showed my friends my trains as I got older, they thought it was a childish pursuit. Even to this day, there are few where I live at my age that enjoy model railroading. I just hope it doesn’t die-out.
I grew up watching this on my vhs player. Even today almost 23 years later I was excited to watch it. Until my vhs player decided to rip the tape out of the cassette. I'm looking at buying a new tape but honestly I might just burn this to a DVD. Thank you for preserving this classic
Why is it that all of the companies that give good customer service, backup their product with parts supplies and generally try to give their customers the best customer experience all go by the wayside and companies that don't give a crap about you as a customer continue to live on? Why is that?
@@Orangeshirt_Railfan I Said That Comment Cause I'm Going To Miss Mike Wolf Who Made This Possible To Are Railroad Train Hobby For US To Love. What About You?
I think I remember this was the video on my old MTH VHS that I have put away and it also had the instructional starter set segment on it. I watched it in my early childhood and it was several years before I got into O gauge in 2005. I used to rewind that tape at one point to make the trains go back and forth like I was “controlling them” and I then found myself later running newer MTH Proto 2/3 stuff with the DCS. Good memories!
I've intentified the soundtrack from most of this program except for at the following: 10:37 - 15:36 (Starter Sets) 15:42 - 16:40 (Railtown Buildings) 17:11 - 18:20 (Big Mo) (UPDATE) I've identified the second soundtrack piece, Building America by Network Music Ensemble.
"WOW" I thought MTH went out of business. Very informative and well worth watching, if your into model trains! The photo shots , voice, everything was top notch. Whats happening with MTH now, in 2022?
Mike Wolfe retired however the VP of MTH has taken over the company…. They’ll still make trains just not to the high volume as before. They may eventually get back to that point though….
Sad seeing MTH being broken up. They made the hobby what it is today. All gauges across the board. I wish Mike would have just named a successor to keep the business going:
MTH is still in business. Now some of the employees that worked for Mike made a deal and took over the brand. They have been split into 3 smaller company divisions that focus on production, parts and electronics. However some of the tooling mainly some Premier and RailKing products were sold to other companies such as Atlas and Lionel. I'm mainly a Lionel guy because I have more personal history with the brand and nostalgia, but I've always liked MTH as well. I've recently purchased the first RailKing product MTH made, a NYC Mohawk set. I believe the brand will continue to make great products and keep the competition going on strong for everybody.
@@douglasschultz9808 Possibly, but hard to say as the company is still settling down. They just announced they were going to make a new run of PRR 2-10-4's.
It is such a shame when a toy train company has the founder retire a Tennessee end of the company especially when you enjoyed their products. Bob Weaver made trains in America cheaper than Lionel 4mth we charged for something made in China and people in America don't work for $2 an hour. I like Mike's train house as an alternative because I do not like to have all of the electronics that they have it today in trains. With Lionel you pay more for the name than what you pay for the locomotive just like Harley-Davidson tax you pay for the name on the gas tank or you pay for the name on The Box. Of course just like Lionel pretty soon Harley will just be importing stuff made in China and will not be building anything here. I bought a bunch of MTH subway car sets and I bought the bag of seated people. I called up empty H and I told them if they molded the figures in flesh colored plastic it would make it so much easier to paint cuz then you have to pay the clothes. They said it was a good suggestion I never knew if they took it up. It cost me $169 for my first B tradehouse subway car set and it cost me $200 for commuters to fill it up. Those sets are largely responsible for me going from ho 20 gauge. Of course with the subway car Schatz I could rationalize the third rail and all my electric I run pantographs down like ep 5 do in third rail territory anyway. Of course if I was modeling the Santa Fe or the Union Pacific then I would be just stuck with the third-rail.
I like MTH realtrax with the solid rails they give heft and a feel of quality to eat piece of track. I bought a circle of 042 for my tg1 Williams locomotives and found that they started to make them sheet metal template style so disappointing. That's the kind of cheapening you just can't fix. Of course they didn't say anything about this in the catalog you know for something like toy trains if a manufacturer does something that the customer does not like they should correct it to the customer's preference. I'm sure the solid rail track is much more expensive to ship than the much lighter sheet metal track but what good is it if the customer doesn't like it? I got this video somewhere. I like the one where they show the Allegheny pulling like 75 or 103 cars. I paid for a lifetime subscription of catalogs but now they don't make catalogs anymore so I guess I'm just shit out of luck cuz I can't go in a computer
MTH is the best with way better engines and cars and superior quality over Lionel just 1 draw back on some of the engines seems like the sound just wasn't as good as the same engine made by Lionel but the quality of sound isn't a deal breaker cause it's reliability and attention to detail still way out performs the Lionel trains my opinion of course
God, I remember getting this tape as a reward from, of all people, my piano teacher, who was also a train nut. He would regularly give me his old Lionel and MTH catalogues and I remember spending many happy hours as a kid on the bus looking and day-dreaming of them
What a Time Capsule!!! They just don’t make product videos like they used to.
I love MTH and consider them to have been essential for Lionel to improve its product line.
I agree. I'm more of a Lionel guy, but I do love MTH as well and Lionel would not be where it is today with its products had it not been for MTH revolutionizing the O gauge market in the 90's and early 2000's. Last year I bought my first MTH train, a Rail King loco-sound Blue Comet 4-6-2 engine which I love. I also recently bought the first Rail King train set made by MTH back in 1995, a NYC Mohawk freight set. I'm still mainly a Lionel guy because of the history and nostalgia it made for many people for the past 120 years, but I love all the other brands of model railroading and MTH is up there for me along with American Flyer, Marx, K-line, Atlas, ETC.
Lionel is nice however way way overpriced, what they charge drives people away from the hobby
@@NguageTrains I couldn't agree more. That's why run old American Flyer, S-Helper, American Models and in O/027 scale, older MTH and Marx trains.
I question the sanity of those running Lionel. ho is their market? Older folks who supported Lionel are dying off, the ebay market is glutted and fat and younger people, even if interested are pushed away by the prices. How many $1500-$2500 engines can you sell?
Third rail offers better quality at a price either competitive or better than Lionel. It's what I was afraid would happen. Without another heavy hitter, and Atlas has not come up to bat yet, Lionel proceeds from arrogance and unquestioned dominance and acts and charges the part.....like most of congress, the useless imposter in the White House, and the media.
There still is value and lower priced trains out there and it will get better. It's a matter of numbers.
Finally, I detest China, NAFTA/GATT and the gutting of our industries. Give me American made stuff and trains. I've had" Chinanel" stuff and it is garbage.
Blessings, Bill
@@105C09 right here with you 100% I love to buying Weaver trains because they were made in America and they were less expensive than the Chinese ones imported by mph and Lionel. I look at the list of the locomotives they had available in 1998 and I wish I could have bought one of everything. I would not trust anything built by Lionel today at all they live on a name and nothing else. Just like Harley-Davidson . I mourned the loss Victory Motorcycles and I mourn the loss of Mike's train house.
Except for their track! when my dad and I used to go to the train store, They used Lionel track, but ran MTH trains. I bought so many pieces and they were shotty. With my mth California Zephyr set. All ways ended up with a dead unit. That was about 15 years ago, so maybe they improved but I’m getting back in the hobby at 27, and I’m so glad I finally make money to buy my own locos and cars, etc.. I hope more people my age will get back into model railroading, when I showed my friends my trains as I got older, they thought it was a childish pursuit. Even to this day, there are few where I live at my age that enjoy model railroading. I just hope it doesn’t die-out.
MTH changed model trains as much as electricity. Thank you MTH.
I grew up watching this on my vhs player. Even today almost 23 years later I was excited to watch it. Until my vhs player decided to rip the tape out of the cassette. I'm looking at buying a new tape but honestly I might just burn this to a DVD. Thank you for preserving this classic
Why is it that all of the companies that give good customer service, backup their product with parts supplies and generally try to give their customers the best customer experience all go by the wayside and companies that don't give a crap about you as a customer continue to live on? Why is that?
R.I.P. MTH Electric Trains Inc. 1980 - 2021 🚂
ME: 😞
They are not gone they just are a smaller company now
@@Orangeshirt_Railfan Cause Of Atlas Inc?
@@Orangeshirt_Railfan I Said That Comment Cause I'm Going To Miss Mike Wolf Who Made This Possible To Are Railroad Train Hobby For US To Love. What About You?
@@utahrailroadsofamerica1991 yes, but mth the company exists but they are why smaller than before
Happy 41st Birthday MTH Electirc Trains! Smoke it up!
Nice to see Olgebay Parks layout host MTH trains for this video. The layout is now gone. So sad.
I love this tape! I love MTH especially due to the explanation about the model trains!
I think I remember this was the video on my old MTH VHS that I have put away and it also had the instructional starter set segment on it. I watched it in my early childhood and it was several years before I got into O gauge in 2005. I used to rewind that tape at one point to make the trains go back and forth like I was “controlling them” and I then found myself later running newer MTH Proto 2/3 stuff with the DCS. Good memories!
I've intentified the soundtrack from most of this program except for at the following:
10:37 - 15:36 (Starter Sets)
15:42 - 16:40 (Railtown Buildings)
17:11 - 18:20 (Big Mo)
(UPDATE) I've identified the second soundtrack piece, Building America by Network Music Ensemble.
My NYC 5405 is an absolute beast!😺
"WOW" I thought MTH went out of business. Very informative and well worth watching, if your into model trains! The photo shots , voice, everything was top notch. Whats happening with MTH now, in 2022?
Mike Wolfe retired however the VP of MTH has taken over the company…. They’ll still make trains just not to the high volume as before. They may eventually get back to that point though….
It is amazing that wall of the locomotive and I catalog are now expensive collectibles.
Sad seeing MTH being broken up. They made the hobby what it is today. All gauges across the board. I wish Mike would have just named a successor to keep the business going:
MTH is still in business. Now some of the employees that worked for Mike made a deal and took over the brand. They have been split into 3 smaller company divisions that focus on production, parts and electronics. However some of the tooling mainly some Premier and RailKing products were sold to other companies such as Atlas and Lionel. I'm mainly a Lionel guy because I have more personal history with the brand and nostalgia, but I've always liked MTH as well. I've recently purchased the first RailKing product MTH made, a NYC Mohawk set. I believe the brand will continue to make great products and keep the competition going on strong for everybody.
@@wordenentertainment1997 I was told when Mike Wolf sold the building that was the end of it.
@@douglasschultz9808 That was if there was no buyer or takeover.
@@wordenentertainment1997 so I’ll be able to buy a new z-4000 next year?
@@douglasschultz9808 Possibly, but hard to say as the company is still settling down. They just announced they were going to make a new run of PRR 2-10-4's.
Man... I want Standard Gauge to come back...
I think it got released in the fall because the showroom layout opend by then.
I plan on recreating the Big Mo display on my layout.
I remember this shit
It is such a shame when a toy train company has the founder retire a Tennessee end of the company especially when you enjoyed their products. Bob Weaver made trains in America cheaper than Lionel 4mth we charged for something made in China and people in America don't work for $2 an hour. I like Mike's train house as an alternative because I do not like to have all of the electronics that they have it today in trains. With Lionel you pay more for the name than what you pay for the locomotive just like Harley-Davidson tax you pay for the name on the gas tank or you pay for the name on The Box. Of course just like Lionel pretty soon Harley will just be importing stuff made in China and will not be building anything here. I bought a bunch of MTH subway car sets and I bought the bag of seated people. I called up empty H and I told them if they molded the figures in flesh colored plastic it would make it so much easier to paint cuz then you have to pay the clothes. They said it was a good suggestion I never knew if they took it up. It cost me $169 for my first B tradehouse subway car set and it cost me $200 for commuters to fill it up. Those sets are largely responsible for me going from ho 20 gauge. Of course with the subway car Schatz I could rationalize the third rail and all my electric I run pantographs down like ep 5 do in third rail territory anyway. Of course if I was modeling the Santa Fe or the Union Pacific then I would be just stuck with the third-rail.
Can you upload black Diamond railway train layout full DVD?
that's not a caterpillar motor grader on that flat car that's a caterpillar elevating wheel tractor scraper
dose that layout still exist?
90s
6:15-25:40 Amazing
I like MTH realtrax with the solid rails they give heft and a feel of quality to eat piece of track. I bought a circle of 042 for my tg1 Williams locomotives and found that they started to make them sheet metal template style so disappointing. That's the kind of cheapening you just can't fix. Of course they didn't say anything about this in the catalog you know for something like toy trains if a manufacturer does something that the customer does not like they should correct it to the customer's preference. I'm sure the solid rail track is much more expensive to ship than the much lighter sheet metal track but what good is it if the customer doesn't like it? I got this video somewhere. I like the one where they show the Allegheny pulling like 75 or 103 cars. I paid for a lifetime subscription of catalogs but now they don't make catalogs anymore so I guess I'm just shit out of luck cuz I can't go in a computer
Uhh, I can fix I Love Toy Trains.
MTH is the best with way better engines and cars and superior quality over Lionel just 1 draw back on some of the engines seems like the sound just wasn't as good as the same engine made by Lionel but the quality of sound isn't a deal breaker cause it's reliability and attention to detail still way out performs the Lionel trains my opinion of course
Do they Build Ho And N scale Too?
There was only HO. No N scale. However there was talk about making n scale decoders like they made for HO.
HO - Yes
N - Absolutely not
Lionel trains are special
looks like china..