Confirmed by email to me. Two years running now. [:(]
-Crandell
Truly a shame as the last offering was by far their best! I still have one of the sets in a box un-opened.
Fergie
Yes, the 2-10-2 was just excellent, I decided to make two slightly different verrsions so I had sub classes. By moving a few details around and using two different cabs, you could do this to them: -
Yes, the 2-10-2 was just excellent, I decided to make two slightly different verrsions so I had sub classes. By moving a few details around and using two different cabs, you could do this to them: -
Roger:
You and I must have had the same thoughts
I think the problem that PC had was Mehano hasn’t been releasing any new engines and they were the sole source for these sets. I also think the “Yard Bull” set from 3 or 4 years ago left a bad taste in their mouth as they did not sell well at all.
Fergie
Nice job Fergie.
I dumped the tender the loco came with as it’s of no real prototype. It was designed to carry the motor as the orginal IHC loco was tender driven. I replaced the PC tender with a kitbashed Spectrum “Hicken” oil tender that I shortened and converted to a coal tender.
See below:-
Thats a shame PC isn’t doing them anymore. I always looked forward to getting one from my wife for Christmas. I still see the latest ones at shows going for 50 to 150 bucks.
Thank you
I really like what you’ve done to your tenders bit more work went into yours then mine.
I used the same tenders but cut the Oil Tank Ceiling out and put a speaker there. covered the speaker over with shaped foam and then glued (same way as ballasting roadbed) coal to the top of the foam. The sound hasn’t been muffled in the least.
Fergie
I am disappointed that there will be no set for this year. Just out of curiousity what was the best selling of the President’s Choice sets?
The only one I bought, and then I bought three of them, was the 2-10-2 as the rest were too toy like with big flanges etc… The 2-10-2 was the IHC 2-10-2 but with matching Elesco feedwater pump and feedwater heater. The U.S. IHC 2-10-2 has a mismatched Elesco pump and a Worthington feedwater heater.
What was missing from the PC 2-10-2 was sadly the DCC plug.
Ok, I’m not in the loop with this President’s Choice thing… what be the scoop?
Sadly my experience with “certain” manufactures that provide DCC plugs is to rip them out along with their circuit boards and wire them from the “rail up”. I think it’s something to do with FCC requirments for “chokes” to cut down on interference. The capacitors cause nothing but grief. Bachmann is a case in point. Anyone in need of a circuit board? it’s yours for the asking (and postage!)
Fergie
PC is a Canadian (only, I think) “no-name” brand, probably the premier brand of a wide range of products…obviously. It started of with foods, got quite good for that genre of less costly foods, and then branched out into general merchandise. For several years, PC contracted with IHC to market a Christmas toy train set in HO. The locos, to my eye, were all weird and non-representative, but unique from those you see advertized in MR. Weird coweling or cladding, and even close to awful from my point of view. However, their last one, in '06, was the just introduced Premier Line 2-10-2, but probably bare bones inside…no DCC ready and all that. Not even sure about the inner works. But to the eye, it was indeed their prized Santa Fe type, and they went long before Christmas, as you can imagine.
i really think it’s too bad they don’t do a train set every year simply because Loblaws/no frills/whatever is one of the last places you can buy a train set outside of a hobby shop , maybe Toys-are-us has some . but people who don’t go to hobby shops (including most mothers) don’t see a train set very often and may not think of it as a xmas gift .
on the other hand i wonder how many of the PC train sets ever made it around a xmas tree
ernie
Here in Victoria, BC, the local Superstore sold out in less than an hour after putting them on the shelves. According to the manager, one man came in and bought all 12 they had in stock.
I phoned my brother in Ontario and he managed to track down one and a friend in Ontario tracked down two more. I wanted four but got three, so I guess I was lucky. [:)]
OK, so you bought a train set at a food store when your wife sent you to get a loaf of bread and a potato, and you got the quality of a train set bought at a food store. This was a promotional gimmick for a limited time and it’s over, and all you guys who got there first and bought more than one (in some cases many) so no one else could buy any, should feel real proud, it’s called greed.
GREED!!! Where did that come from, lol. The PC train sets were collectors items, yes people actually collected these sets. Usually after boxing day they were marked down to 50% off of their list price. These sets were of very poor quality, the cars were toy like and the only engines that were of any value were the last two produced.
In the early days of NAFTA, President’s Choice was a Canadian line of canned & packaged goods sold in the US. It may have been a “private label”. The goods were supposed to be a bit higher quality than the normal items.
For the hobby market, PC was a line of Canadian prototype lettered trains. Mehano/IHC may be an OK producer of HO items but a poor Nscale maker. US modelers of CN/CP would like to see some of the product sold in the US. I’d like to have a Royal Hudson or a CN 6060 to pull a train.
At first a was taken aback, then thought “maybe he’s right”…[V]
Then again I did not buy all three sets at once I waited to pick up the last one after the "rush which was about 10 days. These, as have been pointed out are collector’s sets. The last set, though not "prototypical were the closest to CN 2-10-2’s I’d seen and were looking for. My original intent was to kitbash and have fleet of them. I’m not intending on selling the 3rd one on e-bay as I had intended to kitbash that one as well.
If someone contacted me and asked if I’d be interested in selling it I’d be willing to part with it, at cost no less.
It’s better then the alternative having it land up in the garbage after being trashed, tortured or ignored.
PC did produce a “Bullet Nose Betty” but the colour and tender were really off the mark, which was unfortunate as it ran well and apart from the tender resembled 6060.
Fergie