MTH Electric Trains - what about them?

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tankist

tankist

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anything outside HO is a mystery to me. was wondering how this manufacturer is doing in current situation. are they alive and well or scaling back on production?
 
They are still going, but their DCC products don't follow NMRA standards as far as user programming goes. You get what you paid for, and you better learn to live with it.
http://www.zealot.com/forum/showthread.php?p=863287

This isn't the only place I have read similar comments. I was considering their Union Pacific 4-12-2, but after reading about the DCC issues, I'll wait for BLI's version to come out.
 
I know that if you run MTH on DCC, that you lose advanced consists, but what if you have two MTH locos, can you run advanced consists then?
 


No, MTH uses their own system, DCS, which is like DCC, but is not compatible. MTH made their engines compatible with DCC, but only a handful of CVs can be adjusted. They made it compatible so that it will actually sell, but made it such a pain in the rear end to use that people would buy the DCS system.

In the next run, MTH's locos will have the DCS sound or a no-sound-but-with-8-pin-dcc-plug option.
 
Do a search here for the big MTH post. Many pages and a lot of opinions. Some good, majority are not. Mostly due to thier marketing stategy.
 
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