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M.T.H. Electric Trains 2012 European Models O Gauge Trains That Do More 1 THE RICHEST SET OF FEATU RES IN MODEL RAILROADING tic with added-on metal details and die-cast trucks and underframe. All are designed to deliver many years of smooth, dependable operation. Until now, European O gauge hobby- ists have often had to choose between Vivid Engine Sounds models that look realistic and models Our Proto-Sound® system features digi- that run well. Now M.T.H. introduces tal recordings with CD-quality playback, accurate, highly detailed scale models with a full range of sounds including that run superbly, have more features whistle or horn, steam locomotive than any previous O gauge trains, and chuff, electric engine cooling fans, are offered at attractive prices. Our squealing brakes, crew conversations, locomotives feature: and much more. Passenger engines offer Passenger Station Proto-Effects™, DCC On Board a complete arrival and departure All M.T.H. locomotives Proto-Scale 3-2™ sequence that you can activate from are DCC equipped.* an AC transformer or a DCC or DCS M.T.H. engines are available with For operators with the handheld. Freight engines include a choice of scale wheels or deeper- newest DCC control- Freight Yard Proto-Effects, a symphony flanged hi-rail wheels. Our unique lers, M.T.H. engines of freight terminal sounds. offer a full range of 28 Proto-Scale 3-2 feature allows either DCC functions. version to operate on both 2-rail and 3-rail track; changeover is simple and takes just minutes. Engines with hi-rail Compatibility wheels have blind (unflanged) center with all AC and drivers to allow operation on smaller DC operating radius curves and switches. systems M.T.H. locomo- Scale detailing tives are com- M.T.H. engines are accurately re- patible with searched and as detailed as we can all common O reasonably make them. Steam engines gauge operating and our Crocodile electric feature die systems: analog cast metal construction with many AC or DC, DCC, added-on metal details; our TRAXX and our own electric is constructed of ABS plas- DCS™ Digital Command System. Your M.T.H. en- gine automatically senses what kind of power is on the rails. Just set it on the track and run it! On the cover: Railion TRAXX F140 AC2 Electric Engine THE RICHEST SET OF FEATU RES IN MODEL RAILROADING Great Smoke Who is M.T.H.? M.T.H. steam engines feature fan- While our name may be new to Euro- trains, and we use three other factories driven ProtoSmoke™, the most pow- pean model railroaders, M.T.H. Electric that are dedicated solely to our product erful smoke system in the hobby. You Trains is a seasoned American model line. This gives us more control of our can vary the intensity with the smoke train manufacturer with a long his- manufacturing process and quality than “volume” control on the locomotive or tory of innovation. In little more than many other train companies, whose remotely with a DCC or DCS handheld. a quarter century, M.T.H. has grown products are often made in the same from a tiny business operated out of factories used by their competitors. a spare bedroom to a 50+ employee company headquartered in its own Our research and development team sprawling building in a suburb of has received more than 10 patents on Washington, D.C. innovations in model railroading. We believe the Proto-Sound sound and Over the past 32 years, we have cata- control system found in every M.T.H. loged over 17,000 different items in locomotive, in combination with our four scales: O gauge, One Gauge, HO optional Digital Command System gauge, and tinplate Standard Gauge. (DCS), makes our trains more realistic We are co-owners of two overseas and more fun to operate than any facilities that make nothing but M.T.H. other trains in model railroading. Extraordinary Slow Speed can even switch off the speed control if you prefer. Capability M.T.H. engines can throttle down as Choice of Couplers slow as three scale miles per hour, M.T.H. locomotives are supplied with speed down the main line, and main- American-style remote-controlled tain any speed in between. With our knuckle couplers, NEM 311-compat- DCS system, you can set engine speed in ible couplers, and scale hook-and-chain one-scale-mile-per-hour (smph) incre- couplers. Provisions are also made ments up to 120 smph. for mounting American Kadee® scale knuckle couplers. Speed Control The Proto-Speed Control™ built into * Except previously-released versions of every M.T.H. locomotive acts like the the French Chapelon Pacific and British cruise control on a car, Duchess Class locomotives, which were keeping your train mov- not DCC-compliant. Visit Us Online at ing at the speed you select, regardless of www.mthtrains.com/europe hills and curves. You PROTO-SOUND 3.0: EVOLUTION, NOT REVOLUTION Whether you operate with a conventional transformer or in command mode with DCC or DCS (M.T.H.’s Digital Command System), the Proto-Sound 3.0 system found in every Proto-Sound 3.0 locomotive in this catalog offers more realism, more fun, and more variety than any other onboard locomotive sound system in any scale. DCC Features When using a DCC controller, the follow- Like all evolving technological products, there are a number of new features found in- ing Proto-Sound 3.0 locomotive features side each Proto-Sound 3.0 equipped locomotive that we believe will continue to ensure are accessible: that M.T.H. locomotives are the most advanced, most universally compatible and most exciting to operate in all of model railroading. Steam Features • Headlight on/off • Extended Start Up Chief among these new features is the inclusion of a NMRA Digital Command Con- • Bell on/off • Extended Shut trol (DCC) receiver. While not a popular command control choice of O Gauge model • Whistle/Horn on/ Down railroaders, DCC is the dominant command control protocol in other scales, including off • Labor Chuff HO, N, G and 2-Rail O Scale. By incorporating a DCC receiver into our products, your • Start-up/Shut-down • Drift Chuff new Proto-Sound 3.0 equipped locomotive can be operated in command control mode • PFA initiate and • Smoke Volume using any DCC controller available today. There are dozens of DCC controllers available from a large number of DCC controller manufacturers. Many of these devices can con- advance • Single short trol up to 28 different DCC functions (the NMRA mandated limit for DCC functionality) • Cab Light on/off whistle toot found in every M.T.H. Proto-Sound 3.0 equipped locomotive. • Engine Sounds • Coupler Close on/off • Feature Reset While 28 DCC functions may seem impressive, when a Proto-Sound 3.0 engine is oper- • Volume low, med, • Idle Sequence 1 ated with DCS, quick and easy access to hundreds of sounds and features is available high, off • Idle Sequence 2 - something DCC controllers cannot do. More importantly, like a DCC controller, one • Smoke on/off • Idle Sequence 3 DCS system can control multiple locomotives in different scales. Simply put, with DCS • Forward Signal • Idle Sequence 4 you can control every HO, O, and One gauge locomotive equipped with a Proto-Sound Sound • Brakes auto/off 2.0 or later digital package on your layout - independently or all at the same time. So, • Reverse Signal • Cab Chatter if you are into multiple gauges, one handheld system can control all of your trains - if Sound auto/off they are equipped with Proto-Sound 2.0 or later. • Coupler Slack Sound • Clickety-Clack Features Include: • Grade Crossing auto/off • One-Shot Doppler • VIVID ENGINE SOUNDS • GREAT SMOKE on/off • STATION SOUNDS • SYNCHRONIZED CHUFF AND PUFF Diesel / Electric Features • Headlight • Rev Down • ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDS • BRAKE SOUNDS • Bell • Coupler Slack • EXTRAORDINARY SLOW • FULL COMPATIBILITY WITH ALL • Whistle/Horn Sound SPEED CAPABILITY HO OPERATING SYSTEMS • Start Up/Shut Down • Coupler Close • Rear Coupler • One-Shot Doppler • UNMATCHED SPEED CONTROL • BI-DIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION • Front Coupler • Feature Reset • Engine Sounds • Idle Sequence 1 • LIGHTING EFFECTS • OPERATE ‘EM ALL On/Off • Idle Sequence 2 • MULTIPLE UNIT CAPABILITY • EASY LASHUPS AND HELPER • Sound Volume • Idle Sequence 3 ENGINES • Ditch Lights • Ditch Lights Auto/On/Off Auto/On/Off • Forward Signal • Brakes Auto/Off • Reverse Signal • Cab Chatter • Grade Crossing Auto/Off Signal • Clickety-Clack • Cab Light On/Off Auto/Off • Extended Start Up • Coupler Slack • Extended Shut Sound Down • Rev Up * Check your DCC Controller's manual to see how many features it can access. 2 SWISS CROCODILE ELECTRIC In a country famous for mountain railroad- ing, the Gotthard route is the greatest chal- O lenge, the one by which the Swiss Federal gauge Railways measures its locomotives. Snaking its way around spiral tunnels, across more than a thousand bridges and open pas- sages, and through narrow mountain valleys, the line culminates in a 2.6% climb to the 9-mile-long Goddard Tunnel — the longest in the world when it was opened in 1882. The Gotthard was the stomping ground for the 2-10-0 “Elephants,” the largest steam engines ever used in Switzerland. But when the decision was made to electrify the route, the Elephants were replaced by Crocodiles. To conquer the Gotthard’s tight turns and steep grades, Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) designed a freight locomotive in three articulated sections: a double-ended center section housing two engineer’s sta- • 1:45 scale proportions • Minimum curve: tions, twin pantographs, and the huge high • 16 ½ “ x 2 ½ “ x 3 ¾”” O-72 with hi-rail wheels voltage transformer; and two end sections, (419mm x 64mm x 95mm) 54” radius with scale wheels each with two electric motors powering a • DCC-equipped (all versions) single jackshaft that transmitted power to the 53” drivers, using steam-locomotive-type drive rods.