Thanks for explaining where MTH fits into the line up

Had to order the entire thing. Well done!

Hopefully, this means we're gonna get some smaller steam in the future. Maybe some 2-8-0s would be nice.

Looks and sounds Amazing! Passenger cars look just as good! Congrats Scale Trains with many more to come!

I have two of the locos on pre order and 5 passenger cars, I can’t wait for them to come in December!

Last N&W steam was May 1960 for the record. These look pretty well done. Would love to see the unshrouded J in the future

This is absolutely phenomenal!! The perfect icon for the first steam release and a full matching train, can’t beat that!

Just did a huge preorder, can’t wait for December!

Ive ordered the 611 and all of the passenger cars. Looking forward to it!

I only wish the locomotive had firebox flicker and ground lighting. I pre-ordered 611. Really hoping for the Lima Berkshires from you guys.

I only have one request. PAINT THE PILOT TRUCK! The shiny unpainted wheels on the pilot truck look awful!

Already preordered my 611, can’t wait

Looks and sounds like a great model, nice work 👍

I am super excited about this and have preordered the entire consist, but I sincerely hope there are plans to paint the wheels on the locomotive full black. The unpainted axle ends and pilot wheels do not look good, especially on a $550 model. This is a great opportunity to update and build upon the MTH tooling.

It looks and sounds great, Drayton! I don't run steam (at least one that large) on my little 4×8 layout, but it's a cool locomotive and the passenger cars look great lit up!

The 2015 to current whistle is however an original N&W J Hancock 3 chime whistle from when they had been built though. From, I want to say, either 600, 603 or 608. I can’t remember exactly which J the whistle had been from, but I do remember reading that it was from one of the scrapped ones.

Will there be a way to get the tender closer to the locomotive for layouts with large radii? Maybe I‘m spoiled from European models but it would look so much nicer

Totally outstanding, N scale please. I have the Hiawatha steam that they made, still runs awesome. I think that this would be a great project for Fox Valley. Noone has made a really great running model of the class J NS Loco in N scale, I think it would sell very well.

This is awesome, can't wait for the yellowstone.

Congrats from Brazil

With Scale Trains doing a Norfolk and Western J Class, they have finally done their first steam locomotive in their catalog. And the add on N&W Powathan Arrow coaches make them their first passenger cars on their catalog as well

This looks phenomenal, you guys did a great job bringing these ex-MTH models back and adding the extra awesome features with the bi-color marker lights and other new lighting, as well as improved sound that still has smoke, super awesome! A bit off topic, feel free to ignore, but I would absolutely love it if you guys could re-release the Fox Valley Hiawatha set at some point with this same treatment as the last run got canceled and they’re super hard to come by now. It’d also be great to offer multiple paint scheme variations with the passenger cars if you guys did do the Hiawatha. (specifically a 1939 based scheme or the 1948 scheme, as Fox Valley had the 1948 cars available for preorder but they never got released with said cancelation and in general Milwaukee Road cars in that scheme are practically non-existent in HO outside of brass, I think they’d be worth producing at some point)

gorgeous model, hopefully we end up seeing more mth re-releases of specifically engines that have rocketed up in value like the empire state express.

hello Scale Trains & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks Scale Trains & Friends Randy

My preorder is in! I know some others have mentioned it, but if you could explore a way to decrease the gap between the tender and cab, I think it would really make it stand out visually.

Anyway on fixing the gap between the tender and locomotive? That gap is crazy. I pre ordered the model. But i do hope gap will be addressed.

After this I’m looking forward to see the 2-6-6-6 allegheny Locomotive

So all the mth moldings? Does that mean we'll get a triplex?

In the future will there be any production of the N&W auxiliary tender

Unfortunately I am not doing Ho scale any more but it looks really good

Looks great are you going to make the auxiliary water tenders available as well?

Is it possible to get a seamless connection between the passenger cars? Looks like there is a few millimetres of space?

Will yall be producing the n scale fox valley models H30 3 bay hoppers anytime soon?

I have seen a brass version of this locomotive which looks great

Just pre-ordered all 9 cars and the 2015 911😊

Good to see ya doing well Dayton :). Also wondering if any 2-10-0's from the Gainesville midland may be modeled in the future?

Any chance of this coming to N scale down the road?

Preordered excursion 611 and an observation car, will try to get the other cars as I can afford. So excited for this set! I know there’s a lot of talk about this and other former MTH models coming back under the Fox Valley brand but is there any change of ScaleTrains doing a run of Fox Valley’s Hiawatha?

Fantastic looking and sounding model! Excellent price point given all of the features on the models including the passenger cars. On the DCC ready version without the decoder, what type of interface plug is on that model for future installation of a DCC decoder?

Are there more road names for the SD38s releasing this year?

Will the incorrect nose be remedied before production? For that much money it had better be

Finally something other than wide cab GE’s

Will you guys be making a Daylight and its coaches? That would be amazing

ScaleTrains this one is a bit of an odd request, but for another steam loco I’d love to see you guys do the US Army S160s, I think I’ve only ever seen one other model but have always wanted one, my great uncle worked around them in WWII. Excited to see a steam release period, so thank you. Maybe some early diesels like some alco freight units too?

Will you guys do an un streamlined j class steam locomotives?

Say scale trains I Have a suggestion for a future project down the line how about making some ho scale NYC mohawk

I think it’s is missing a flickering light for the cab or the ashpan.

Does this mean that sometime in the future you might produce the N scale Milwaukee Hudsons that Fox valley model originally did?

Looks great! I do have one question/concern though, and that is will the stack talk be corrected? I noticed that the engine began chuffing only 2-3 times per revolution (when it should be 4) which is a big turnoff for me. I’m not trying to be too critiquing, as this is a preproduction model, and probably the best looking preproduction model I’ve ever seen, but this is something I really hope gets corrected.

This will probably be the definitive HO scale N&W Class J model ever produced!

Engine and cars look outstanding! Is it me or do the passenger cars seem a little too far apart?

The next streamlined steam train that ScaleTrains should release via Fox Valley Models in HO scale should be the Southern Pacific Daylight. Since Broadway Limited Imports released its own HO-scale models of the GS-4, including 4449, in Daylight colors earlier this year and that might just be the best depiction yet of the GS-4 in HO-scale, maybe it will just have to be the Daylight cars with modified tooling, but who knows?

We need more NP steam!!!

When you guys going to re run the fox valley Hiawatha

Are you guys gonna do more ho scale steam locomotives

I pre-ordered the post 2015 611, with an 8-passenger car set (4 regular coaches, 1 compartment coach, 1 crew coach, 1 diner, and 1 observation coach). ... My wallet hates me more than ever... XD

Hopefully some Southern steam power will come around one day.

Been wondering which engine from the MTH HO line that Scaletrains acquired, would be re-released first. Already got the MTH version which is still the showpiece for visitors, so I’ve no need for this model……for now.

You gotta do some great northern steam

That's a beautiful train and all... really, great work. I (and every other model rail roader I know) would much rather wish you guys would focus your efforts more on Amazon containers, along with other containers. Don't know if you noticed or not but the very few Amazon containers that were on eBay sold, very quickly, for $200... (3 packs) Not sayin, just sayin.

Berkshire next if you got the tooling for it.

Only in dcc no dc?

I sure would like to see the Lima "Super Power" Berkshires as well as the C&O Kanawha as you next steam models. I have the MTH "smoking whistle" version that has been a disaster electronically. Decoder, and whistle board failures galore. It is down again! MTH repaired, MTH Service Center repaired and I have repaired. Junk electronics!!!

I wish I had a big enough layout

Which museums NCTM and Roanoke is the only to museums to talk.

At least I already have two auxiliary water tenders to go with 😁

They call that illuminated "Train Sign" a "Drum Head".

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I'm gonna pre order the dcc ready version. I've had 2 locomotives that have had loksound and the decoders have burned up. But don't have a issue with TCS or sountraxx

holup they hired DIB? Cool!

Can’t wait for those cars! I also preordered the SoR 611 with sound, very skeptical of the sound as that whistle sounded like it was crying for help and chuffs didn’t impress. I’m hoping if I want to I can swap it for a decoder more to my liking if I feel I want to.

i find it rather hard to belive the j class was the most highly requested steamer for yall to do

Better than Bachmann?

Maybe if y’all made a non-streamlined J….

Ok. So. It's not The Palaton Arrow. It's The Powhatan Arrow. Your sound is spot on. The drivers need to be solid black no bare metal around the drivers is looks like white walls and none of the J's or 611 today have white walks. I mean over all it's an ok set i.e. in the J and cars. I kinda thought you would do your own thing and make a outstanding separate model like museum quality and not use retooling from another company that was bought. Kind of disappointed in that. I don't see $530 in the J or $89 in the cars.

Sound is great but appearance looks way off and toy like. Blackening the tires and pilot wheels and fixing that massive space between the engine and tender might help.

The new Bachman model of the 611 w/ sound I bought in 2005 cost $150. Has inflation been that high for this model to cost 3.5x higher ?

The finish on this demo model is horrendous! Look at the close ups! Dirty, texture. BUT I need it! Southern Pacific Daylight next?

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Sound has no bass and doesn't seem synchronized.

There is a big open gap between the pilot wheels and the cowcatcher that is not prototypical and looks awkward. Move the pilot wheel truck forward.

After hearing that the J will feature 2015 sound features (the whistle on the 611 today is a stand-in whistle, not an actual J whistle), I believe I will now cancel my order. If other manufactures can do the correct "HOOTER" whistle, for the 50's J and the cars with skirts in the as delivered., why can't Scaletrains? I don't want a 2015 J!

I found it humorous you censored yourself because you said the wrong date and put a little title card over your mouth with the correct date whenever you said the date.

This model is so affordable that it makes Broadway Limited look like grifting lol!

The quality does not look up to ScaleTrains standards. It looks cheap and 'toy-like'. For the price you asking for a non-retooled model.... hard meh and pass.

I would be a very happy man if you guys did SP 4449 and matching cars