MTH Warehouse Auction

[jlong]

JLONG,
Is your mouth supposed to be censored or what???????

Yes. Play my post backwards and profanity comes out.

[robert.]

JLONG,
Is your mouth supposed to be censored or what???????

his avatar photo is hosted by photobucket. If you don't pay photobucket to host your photos. they place a water mark on it. It just happens to be a black bar over his face.

[rogruth]

JLONG,
Is your mouth supposed to be censored or what???????

his avatar photo is hosted by photobucket. If you don't pay photobucket to host your photos. they place a water mark on it. It just happens to be a black bar over his face.

I thought that was it but I really wanted to hear his explanation.
So I will now play his posts backwards and wait to see if it gets censored.

[MartyE]

A local hobby shop here called MTH to inquire about the auction. He was told that the stuff being auctioned is the displays and prototypes, etc. Nothing current in parts or product is part of the auctions. It sounds like they are just clearing out the warehouse of years of stuff that was collected.

[robert.]

Can i stir the pot a little? Mike’s House of Trains. In Howard county received a ppp loan.$150,000-350,000. In short the feds are paying him to close shop.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Can i stir the pot a little? Mike’s House of Trains. In Howard county received a ppp loan.$150,000-350,000. In short the feds are paying him to close shop.

Or maybe that pays the salaries of the employees until they completely close down?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A local hobby shop here called MTH to inquire about the auction. He was told that the stuff being auctioned is the displays and prototypes, etc. Nothing current in parts or product is part of the auctions. It sounds like they are just clearing out the warehouse of years of stuff that was collected.

Might be inundated by a ravening horde of MTH fanatic collectors.............

[jlong]

A local hobby shop here called MTH to inquire about the auction. He was told that the stuff being auctioned is the displays and prototypes, etc. Nothing current in parts or product is part of the auctions. It sounds like they are just clearing out the warehouse of years of stuff that was collected.

Might be inundated by a ravening horde of MTH fanatic collectors.............

........that actually believe they are bidding on collectibles.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A local hobby shop here called MTH to inquire about the auction. He was told that the stuff being auctioned is the displays and prototypes, etc. Nothing current in parts or product is part of the auctions. It sounds like they are just clearing out the warehouse of years of stuff that was collected.

Might be inundated by a ravening horde of MTH fanatic collectors.............

........that actually believe they are bidding on collectibles.

Precisely.

[G3750]

Might be inundated by a ravening horde of MTH fanatic collectors.............

........that actually believe they are bidding on collectibles.

Precisely.

That IS funny.

I wonder what the average life expectancy of MTH locomotives (of any flavor) is?

George

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder what the average life expectancy of MTH locomotives (of any flavor) is?

That might depend on many variables. I would expect the basic 2 rail pure DC ones (those with all the extraneous rubbish extracted...) might be long lived. Conversely, the more electronic widgetry that's present would probably correlate to failure rate.

[chuck]

I would expect the basic 2 rail pure DC ones (those with all the extraneous rubbish extracted...) might be long lived.

For the most part the mechanics of the MTH locomotives was sound. Decent motors and a well made drive train (for the most part). The weakness has always been the electronics unless you bought old school DCRU equipment. They even had issues with wiring harnesses let alone electronics/boards.

"The more they overthink the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain."

Re the stuff up for auction, I assume these are prototypes/test shots. Stuff that primarily only has/had meaning for Mr. Wolf. I guess if you think/see it as a "piece of history", more power to you.

[Neil]

"The weakness has always been the electronics unless you bought old school DCRU equipment."

The MTH faithful, when they actually admitted to any weaknesses of PS1, always blamed the problems on QSI, never admitting that Mike Wolf cheaped out and had QSI remove features from their products with unforeseen consequences for utility and reliability. Then these shysters developed PS2 and DCS on their own and shipped it half baked with all sorts of limitations and quirks. And the faithful bought into it as if DCS were specified on that missing third tablet from Mt. Sinai . Now that they have a half way stable system with PS3 and the current DCS iteration (nearly two decades on) Mike Wolf is abandoning ship. Talk about cargo cults....Of course, you still have to put up with messages such as "no locomotive to add" and "no train on track." What a wonderful product. Not.

But Chuck is dead on. The MTH product has always been aesthetically beautiful and mechanically sound, so that if you ran it in conventional, you were usually fine, and that's probably why MTH survived the PS2, DCS debacles. Most or almost all customers ran the stuff in conventional. If there were more people trying to run it in command mode, the baldness rate at York would have been even higher.

[ScaleCraft]

I have posted several evilbait listings from a seller in the same town as the former World Headquarters of MTH that are engineering prototypes, no boards, wire, motors, smoke units, gearboxes or paint. How much more of that dis Mikey have in that building?
I mean, I wouldn't pay the roughly $600 (each) asking for any of that pile. And now we are seeing "the stuff up for auction, I assume these are prototypes/test shots. ". Same thing. Useless.

Let's guess for a minute that possibly they are 3D printed to prove design concept. What actual use is that?

[chuck]

What actual use is that?

It's (potentially) a piece of history. Not a piece that I would be interested in owning but there are some that are. People "collect" all kinds of sh*t.