Read in the TCA National Headquarter News that the reason why there was no Standard Gauge freight car offering for the TCA convention cars is that they were informed by MTH that Standard Gauge will no longer be manufactured.
That is true but MTH was producing Standard Gauge long before their agreement with Lionel. Mike actually start manufacturing Standard Gauge locomotives and freight cars back in the mid eighties using Samhongsa as his supplier.
My guess is that there isn’t enough demand to justify making a convention car. When I see an uncatalogued run from MTH, it is produced along with a cataloged run of similar cars/engines. For example, I recently got a PRSL AS-616 which was produced at the same time as some cataloged AS-616s.
So maybe at this time here isn’t a huge demand for standard gauge stuff. Maybe that’s part of the reason MTH and Lionel couldn’t agree on a licensing extension and maybe the reason why MTH isn’t producing Standard gauge with their own nameplate. So, if they are not making a cataloged run of MTH standard gauge, then making a special run for a convention car would make it prohibitively expensive.
I thought the O Gauge tinplate line would continue if there is support for it. Elimination of the Circle L on the product line is no big deal, that is all the agreement covered.
Bill
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