Available Items

November 16, 2006 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced that separately sold Hi-Rail wheel equipped SD70ACe diesel engines from the firm's seven set Union Pacific Heritage Diesel Set Series will also be sold separately. Scheduled for release beginning in 2007, the sets and separate sale locomotives will feature the six primary heritage railroads consumed by Union Pacific over the past 100 years as well as a U.P. themed set.

Starting in January 2007, one roadname per month will begin shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers beginning with the Union Pacific railroad. Each separately sold Hi-Rail wheeled locomotive will be priced at $429.95 each and production will be strictly limited to advanced orders placed by a November 30, 2006 deadline.

All seven sets are featured in M.T.H.メs 2007 Volume 1 Catalog due for release in mid-October, 2006. The locomotives are equipped with M.T.H.メs Proto-Soundᆴ 2.0 digital sound system and feature the firmメs exclusive Proto-Scale 3-2ル technology for operation on 2-rail or 3-rail track.

Order of production will begin with the Union Pacific set followed by the following sets over the next six months:

 

Item No. 20-2774-1e Union Pacific

MSRP: $429.95 Delivery: January 2007

 

Item No. 20-2771-1e Missouri Pacific

MSRP: $429.95 Delivery: February 2007

 

Item No. 20-2775-1e Western Pacific

MSRP: $429.95 Delivery: March 2007

 

Item No. 20-2772-1e Katy

MSRP: $429.95 Delivery: April 2007

 

Item No. 20-2770-1e Denver Rio Grande Western

MSRP: $429.95 Delivery: May 2007

 

Item No. 20-2769-1e Chicago NorthWestern

MSRP: $429.95 Delivery: June 2007

 

Item No. 20-2773-1e Southern Pacific

MSRP: $429.95 Delivery: July 2007

Scale wheel, 2-rail fans can also order the locomotives by themselves without box cars and caboose. Delivery of the scale wheeled versions will coincide with the hi-rail sets in the months cited above.

 

Scale Wheeled, 2-Rail Models

Item No. 20-2774-2 Union Pacific

MSRP: $449.95

Item No. 20-2771-2 Missouri Pacific

MSRP: $449.95

Item No. 20-2775-2 Western Pacific

MSRP: $449.95

Item No. 20-2772-2 Katy

MSRP: $449.95

Item No. 20-2770-2 Denver Rio Grande Western

MSRP: $449.95

Item No. 20-2769-2 Chicago NorthWestern

MSRP: $449.95

Item No. 20-2773-2 Southern Pacific

MSRP: $449.95

Consumers interested in ordering any of these limited production sets should contact their local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer. The early order deadline expires November 30, 2006.