Powhatan Arrow set - MTH HO announced

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Sorry if I missed this, but I have been away from the mailing list for a year.  I recently noticed MTH is doing the Arrow in HO as shown in their new catalog?  This inspired me to open my N&W folder in my email and see what folks were saying about the new project, but I didn't see anything as far back as January.

It is going to bring up the passenger color question, for certain. I would love to hear a comment from some of those who remember the passenger cars in real life.  My belief is that they were more of a tomato soup red, like this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/2846577287_7b7b116bc7.jpg

The models in the catalog are kind of compromised between a reddish-maroon and a brownish-maroon.

The cars are skirted - does this mean the diner car should still be a heavy-weight? I don't know when the skirts were removed (53?) and the streamlined diner entered service?

The aluminim window frames are very nice looking.  I wish there were views of the opposite sides of some of the cars... the diner and coach, in particular.

Here is a PDF copy of the new catalog:

http://www.mthhotrains.com/PDFs/2009v1HOCat.pdf

The Arrow set is displayed on pages 20 & 21

The P4 seems to match the pics on VT site perfectly. Here are 2 views that look like perfect matches to the P4 model:

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns2027.jpeg
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/NS2637.jpeg

Mike Rector





      
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