so there's been some announcments that i've gotten

this was another one posts where i forgot to write.

now on friday i got an email from mth trains saying that they announced a custom run from one of their dealers (the dealer is e-z catch model trains fishing & crabbing supplies).

they announced that they're doing a custom run of the csx conrail heritage unit no. 1976 (and that was a nice surprise announcement). now of course the conrail heritage unit was my second favorite when csx was starting to do the heritage units.

(until the rest came out if i had to make a new list of which is my top 4 favorites from the earliest ones to the recent ones they would be the chessie system the acl the monon and the conrail).

i like the conrail heritage unit (i actually recently thought of buying it with the chessie system unit from lionel if i had to pick another one). in fact it was featured at csx's family days event last year in the summer in ohio (don't know what part of the state this was in but it was where conrail once ran). so i am thinking of buy the conrail heritage unit.

but the mth won't be release until janurary of 2025 so i think i may think about it. but the lionel one maybe a possibility of buying with the chessie system unit i'll see.

(and specking of the csx heritage units i also learned that some people vandalized the c&o heritage unit when it was a dpu on cpkc while in ontario they sprayed painted the nose of the locomotive with black paint). it just pisses me of someone would do that (i mean the employess at the waycross shop spent a lot of time doing work on these units). i hope they can undo the vandalism and that the c&o unit will look just as sharp looking like it did when it rolled out of the waycross shop.

and for a new announcement i just learned that berwyn's toys & trains is doing another custom run with the cn heritage units. (first they did the ej&e unit than the wc unit and for this year they're going to do the grand trunk heritage unit).

i founded this out on their website i've not gotten an email i don't think. (i was checking to see if the ej&e unit was still available as i still would like to buy it and compare it to the lionel one).

only issue is that for the gt unit they showed the drawing that the nose mounted headlight is on top instead of the nose where it's suppose to go. (this is a concept drawing that it may not look like that when it comes out). the gt unit is expected for a release by the fourth quarter of this year.

however i'm still wating to see if lionel will finally offer the gt unit when the vol 2 catalog for this year is released. as i've been really waiting and hoping if they'll do it since they did the 4 gevo heritage units and the two gevo veteran units 2 years ago (and as i said i've been wondering if they'll do them again since they've now got the tooling for the tier 4 gevo so i just feel like they might i'll just need to wait and see).

i just thought i'd share that there's been some exciting announcements of custom models comming form mth (still may think about these it's just nice to see mth do more of the recent heritage units with their tooling they still got).

so until the next post thanks for reading.