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Tidmouth Sheds and the expansion pack have not been released yet. It is looking like late spring.

Our announcements at Toy Fair are centered around our new starter sets and Thomas & Friends™ line. This year we added two new HO sets - The Great Northern "Empire Builder" set and a new McKinley Explorer set featuring newly tooled 89' Colorado Railcar full dome passenger cars. In N scale sets we announced 3 new sets - the Royal Blue (B&O/passenger), The Southern Belle (Southern/freight), and the Spirit of Christmas. In Large Scale we announced the Plainsman set (Union Pacific/freight). We've also announced three exciting new Spectrum "Digital/sound" sets featuring a DCC SOUND ON BOARD 2-8-0 and a Dynamis Digital Control system.

New Thomas& Friends™  items include Large Scale James the Red Engine, 4 new Large Scale freight cars, an HO Sodor lighthouse, HO Knapford Station building kit, HO Scale Bill & Ben , and HO Scale Donald & Douglas.

We announce our standard and Spectrum line model railroad products at the NMRA (National Model Railroad Association) national convention in July. These items appear as "New" in the following catalog. This year includes the large scale Forney, the HO Doodlebugs, etc....

If the MTH track had the black coating on the middle rail it was inhibiting electrical conductivity. My experience has been that you need to remove the black coating (by sanding) from the middle rail on realtrax in order to get good contact.

Yes the H4 is equipped with a "dual mode" decoder. It will operate either way.

Are you saying the locomotive came without the counterweights? 

Vic,
I figured you would be happy that we saving you the trouble of removing the faces and providing a load...

Thanks for the invite guys but it's really not my decision to make. I will pass it on though.

OK - It's one new tank car and a the existing troublesome truck with a NEW coal load.

Yes, After the release of the  printed version.

This sounds like a job for Marklin. Perhaps they have an online forum to answer questions about their new product line?

I think we do a pretty good job keeping the site clean. Every now and then some spam gets through but it's never up for very long and my webmaster is hard at work making sure security is in place and up to date.

Interesting kit-bash vic - but I like him better with his face 

I would suggest posting your inquiries on one of the O gauge web forums. My personal favorite is the O Gauge Railroading magazine forum:
http://ogaugerr.infopop.cc/eve/forums

or perhaps Lionel has a forum where your questions could be addressed.

I've posted some nice "snow" pics in the gallery

http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/gallery.php?set_albumName=album50&include=view_album.php