M.T.H. Electric Trains 2014 European Models Model Trains That Do More O and HO Gauge Models Model Trains That Do More construction with many added-on metal details; our TRAXX and Taurus electrics are constructed of ABS plastic with added-on metal details and die-cast Until now, European hobbyists have often trucks and underframe. All are designed had to choose between models that look to deliver many years of smooth, depend- realistic and models that run well. Now able operation. M.T.H. introduces accurate, highly de- tailed scale models that run superbly, have Vivid Engine Sounds more features than any previous HO or O Our Proto-Sound® system features gauge trains, and are offered at attractive crystal-clear digital recordings, with a prices. Our locomotives feature: full range of sounds including whistle or horn, steam locomotive chuff, electric DCC On Board engine cooling fans, squealing brakes, All M.T.H. locomotives crew conversations, and much more. Pas- System. Your M.T.H. engine automatically are DCC equipped.* senger engines offer Passenger Station senses what kind of power is on the rails. For operators with the Proto-Effects™, a complete arrival and Just set it on the track and run it! newest DCC controllers, departure sequence that you can activate M.T.H. engines offer a from an AC transformer or a DCC or DCS full range of 28 DCC Proto-Scale 3-2™ handheld. Freight engines include Freight functions. M.T.H. O gauge engines are available with Yard Proto-Effects, a symphony of freight a choice of scale wheels or deeper-flanged terminal sounds. Compatibility hi-rail wheels. Our unique Proto-Scale 3-2 feature allows either version to operate on with all AC and both 2-rail and 3-rail track; changeover is DC operating simple and takes just minutes. Engines systems with hi-rail wheels have blind (unflanged) M.T.H. locomotives are center drivers to allow operation on compatible with smaller radius curves and switches. all common operating sys- Scale Detailing tems: analog AC M.T.H. engines are accurately researched or DC, DCC, and and as detailed as we can reasonably our own DCS™ make them. Steam engines and our Digital Command Crocodile electrics feature die cast metal On the cover: DR/DB Class 44 “Jumbo” and E94 Crocodile Electric Who Is M.T.H.? While our name may be new to Euro- factories that are dedicated solely to our pean model railroaders, M.T.H. Electric product line. This gives us more control Trains is a seasoned American model of our manufacturing process and quality train manufacturer with a long history of than many other train companies, whose innovation. In little more than a quarter products are often made in the same century, M.T.H. has grown from a tiny factories used by their competitors. business operated out of a spare bed- room to a 50+ employee company head- Our research and development team quartered in its own sprawling building has received more than 10 patents on Great Smoke in a suburb of Washington, D.C. innovations in model railroading. We M.T.H. steam engines feature fan-driven, believe the Proto-Sound sound and puffing ProtoSmoke™, synchronized with Over the past 34 years, we have cataloged control system found in every M.T.H. their drive wheels’ revolutions — the over 17,000 different items in four scales: locomotive, in combination with our most realistic smoke system in the hobby. O gauge, One Gauge, HO gauge, and optional Digital Command System (DCS), You can vary the intensity with the smoke tinplate Standard Gauge. We are co-owners makes our trains more realistic and more “volume” control on the locomotive or of two overseas facilities that make nothing fun to operate than any other trains in remotely with a DCC or DCS handheld. but M.T.H. trains, and we use three other model railroading. Extraordinary Slow Speed Choice of Couplers Capability M.T.H. locomotives are supplied with M.T.H. engines can throttle down as slow American-style remote-controlled knuckle as three scale miles per hour, speed down couplers, NEM 311-compatible couplers, the main line, and maintain any speed in and scale hook-and-chain couplers. Provi- between. With our DCS system, you can sions are also made for mounting Ameri- set engine speed in one-scale-mile-per- can Kadee® scale knuckle couplers. hour (smph) increments up to 120 smph. * Except previously-released Proto-Sound 2.0 Speed Control versions of the French Chapelon Pacific and British Duchess Class locomotives, which The Proto-Speed Control™ built into every were not DCC-compliant. M.T.H. locomotive acts like the cruise con- trol on a car, keeping your train moving at the speed you select, regardless of hills and curves. You can even switch off the speed Visit Us Online at control if you prefer. www.mthtrains.com/europe Proto-Sound 3.0 The Richest Set of Features in Model Railroading Whether you operate with a conventional trans- dently or all at the same time. So, if you are UNMATCHED SPEED former or in command mode with DCC or DCS into multiple gauges, one handheld system can (M.T.H.’s Digital Command System), the Proto- control all of your trains — if they are equipped CONTROL Sound 3.0 sound and control system found in with Proto-Sound 2.0 or later. The Proto-Speed Control™ built into Proto-Sound every locomotive in this catalog offers more 3.0 acts like the cruise control on a car, keeping realism, more fun, and more variety than any VIVID ENGINE SOUNDS your train moving at the speed you select, regard- other onboard locomotive system in any scale. less of hills and curves. You can even switch off Proto-Sound features crystal-clear digital record- the speed control if you prefer. ings. We strive to make our sounds as authentic Like all evolving technological products, there as possible, using the characteristic whistle for are a number of new features found inside each a particular steam engine, for example. With the LIGHTING EFFECTS Proto-Sound 3.0 equipped locomotive that we optional DCS system, you can tune each engine Proto-Sound locomotives feature prototypical believe will continue to ensure that M.T.H. to your preference by individually adjusting bell, Rule 17 lighting, including a variety of realistic locomotives are the most advanced, most horn or whistle, and chuff volume — and play lighting effects. Depending on the locomotive, universally compatible and most exciting to a steam engine quillable whistle as if you were these may include constant-brightness operate in all of model railroading. pulling the whistle cord! headlights, illuminated number boards, lighted marker lamps, and alternating ditch lights. In Chief among these new features is the inclu- DCS operation, many of these lighting effects can sion of an NMRA Digital Command Control STATION SOUNDS be individually controlled. (DCC) receiver. While not a popular command Proto-Sound passenger engines offer Passenger Sta- control choice of 3-rail O Gauge model railroad- tion Proto-Effects™, a complete arrival and departure ers, DCC is the dominant command control sequence that you can activate from your DCC or MULTIPLE UNIT protocol in other scales, including HO, N, G DCS controller. In most cases, the station sequence CAPABILITY and 2-rail O Scale. By incorporating a DCC re- features an actual name train pulled by that particular In DCS command mode, all locomotives set to the ceiver into our products, your new Proto-Sound engine. Freight engines include Freight Yard Proto- same speed — 37 scale miles per hour, for example 3.0 equipped locomotive can be operated in Effects, a symphony of freight terminal sounds. — will move at virtually the same speed. This makes command control mode using any DCC control- it easy to double or even triple-head nearly any com- ler available today. There are dozens of DCC ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDS bination of Proto-Sound 2.0 and 3.0 locomotives. controllers available from a large number of Crew conversations, the whoosh of a steam engine DCC controller manufacturers. Many of these opening its cylinder cocks, and a host of other GREAT SMOKE devices can control up to 28 different DCC atmospheric sounds play automatically at random Proto-Sound engines feature fan-driven Proto- functions (the NMRA mandated limit for DCC when using a conventional transformer — or can Smoke™, the most powerful smoke system in the functionality) found in every M.T.H. Proto- be activated manually from a DCC controller or the hobby. You can vary the intensity with the smoke Sound 3.0 equipped locomotive. DCS handheld. "volume" control on the locomotive or remotely with any DCC or DCS controller. While 28 DCC functions may seem impressive, when a Proto-Sound 3.0 engine is operated EXTRAORDINARY SLOW with M.T.H.’s DCS system, quick and easy SPEED CAPABILITY SYNCHRONIZED CHUFF access to hundreds of sounds and features is Proto-Sound engines can throttle down as slow AND PUFF available — something DCC controllers cannot as three scale miles per hour, highball down the Like a real steam engine, M.T.H. steamers feature do. More importantly, like a DCC controller, main line, and maintain any speed in between. puffs of smoke and steam chuff sounds syn- one DCS system can control multiple locomo- With certain DCC controllers, and any DCS chronized with the drive wheels. Better than any tives in different scales. Simply put, with DCS controller, you can set engine speed in one-scale- other model train, an M.T.H.