<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Sorry if I missed this, but I have been away from the mailing list for a year. I recently noticed MTH is doing the Arrow in HO as shown in their new catalog? This inspired me to open my N&W folder in my email and see what folks were saying about the new project, but I didn't see anything as far back as January.<br><br>It is going to bring up the passenger color question, for certain. I would love to hear a comment from some of those who remember the passenger cars in real life. My belief is that they were more of a tomato soup red, like this:<br><br>http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/2846577287_7b7b116bc7.jpg<br><br>The models in the catalog are kind of compromised between a reddish-maroon and a brownish-maroon.<br><br>The cars are skirted - does this mean the diner car should still be a heavy-weight? I don't know when the skirts were
removed (53?) and the streamlined diner entered service?<br><br>The aluminim window frames are very nice looking. I wish there were views of the opposite sides of some of the cars... the diner and coach, in particular.<br><br>Here is a PDF copy of the new catalog:<br><br>http://www.mthhotrains.com/PDFs/2009v1HOCat.pdf<br><br>The Arrow set is displayed on pages 20 & 21<br><br>The P4 seems to match the pics on VT site perfectly. Here are 2 views that look like perfect matches to the P4 model:<br><br>http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns2027.jpeg<br>http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/NS2637.jpeg<br><br>Mike Rector<br><br><br></td></tr></table><br>