Back in my "Hot model train takes" blog (to celebrate 50 blog post), I mentioned that I missed MTH one gauge trains, and it was true. Yeah the trains are expensive and I have no room nor experience to create a garden railroad (at the moment), but it's nice to see MTH give indoor and outdoor G scalers their take on beautiful, well detailed G scale trains with sound and smoke.
Turns out, MTH's one gauge is still kicking. MTH is general is still hanging around with O gauge, O scale, and one gauge train announcements here and there, much to my surprise.
While they don't do catalogs at the moment, they do have listening for what trains are available for purchase, so I'd figure I'd go over trains from the first 5 pages on their site (at the time of this blog writing).
Think of it as a catalog overview...
The golden Santa Fe Alco diesel is one of those engines that makes me glad MTH does one gauge to begin with. I haven't seen anyone else in the world of G gauge make a Santa Fe in this scheme, and it just looks really nice.
Would certainly stand out on the garden railroad.
Speaking of Santa Fe, the black and red is on my favorites list as well. It's not the red and silver scheme, but it's just as nice, and MTH offers it in SD70's and F-3 AA's.
Because of course I'm gonna mention a Christmas train of some kind. While nothing too special, I kind of like MTH's SD70 Christmas train because it looks like a real scheme of some kind. It certainly wouldn't be hard to imagine an SD70 dressed up in a Christmas scheme like this.
Going back to the F-3's for a hot moment to talk about the U.S Army train, and man, this scheme looks amazing.
I honestly wanna shed a tear of joy at seeing MTH still make/offer the Christmas flat cars. I'm sorry MTH but I really did love the heck out of these things, and wish we got more of them in HO scale.
At least those who want some Christmas stock on the garden/indoor G scale layout have options, and pretty good ones at that.
Don't get me wrong MTH, I like any railroad manufacture that will put out Halloween trains to challenge Lionel's monopoly on it, but the ES44AC Halloween diesel just looks a little too bland for my liking. Would be nice if they had some cobwebs or bats.
While yes, there are other G scale/one gauge big boys out there in the wild, not any in these epic schemes.
Final thoughts:
Again, it does make me happy to hear and see that MTH's one gauge is still kicking, and I hope the company hangs around for a bit longer, or Mike sells it to someone who wants to take good care of it. Especially in the O gauge/scale department, it would be nice to see MTH reach it's glory days again...
