<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div> <!--StartFragment--><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Brian Dembinski:</span><!--EndFragment--><div style="clear: both;" data-mce-style="clear: both;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div><div>The Scale Trains ex MTH N&W passenger cars are not Key car clones. They are exact models of the Overland cars, as MTH purchased the OMI brass cars from a friend of mine in Virginia.</div><div> The MTH cars are exact copies down to even the window shade colors on the OMI models.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Stephen Rineair</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"NW Modeling List" <nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org><br><b>To: </b>"NW Modeling List" <nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, July 25, 2025 11:55:25 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: New? Bachmann streamliners<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr">The ScaleTrains passenger cars are $90, and are ex-MTH tooling, which are clones of the Key Imports brass models. They - and the rest of the MTH passenger cars - are probably some of the nicest passenger cars on the market.<br><div>The Bachmann ones are generic stand-ins. Train World has them for $65/each.</div><div>* Observation - NYC prototype</div><div>* Diner - Northern Pacific prototype</div><div>* Baggage and coach - Unsure of the prototype.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <<a href="mailto:nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb( 204 , 204 , 204 );padding-left:1ex">"I know it a slightly different price bracket but the ex mth j and powhattan arrow cars have just been re-released by scaletrains under the fox Valley brand and they are significantly better models and far closer to accurate."<br>
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The crazy thing is the accurate ScaleTrain models are $89.99 and the inaccurate Bachmann models are $92. I guess Bachmann will sell enough to cover costs but there's no upside in this case to purchase the Bachmann models.<br>
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Brian Dembinski<br>
Amherst, Ohio<br>
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