Definitely one of the weaker catalog announcements, especially with nothing new for Narrow Gauge, even though the Gunpowder Wagons are the only products for that range we're currently waiting on. Guess we'll have to wait until summer before they announce any new Narrow Gauge engine. Disappointing...

No new engines were announced. Rolling stock only.

HO Scale is getting a new 20-Ton Brake Van, CGI Fuel Tanker and the Ffarquhar Quarry Wagon, N Scale is getting the Blue Open Wagon and Mr. Jolly Van, and Large Scale is getting the Funfair Vans, along with the reintroduced Milk Tanker. Regarding engines, HO Scale at least has Sidney, Mainland Diesel and Flying Scotsman to look forward to. N Scale has Diesel, Paxton, Henry, LBSC Thomas and Origin James. The latter two still have their HO models illustrated in the catalog, but those who went to the event must have seen the actual samples, which haven't been shown online yet. Guess those are the products that Matt teased in the stream earlier this month... The tail lamp on Origin James being a decal ruins it. Could've been molded and separately fitted like on HO Red Rosie. There could still be hope that unpainted samples of N Scale Diesel/Paxton or Henry get shown soon... Still hope for the February stream, or March.

Not Thomas products, but Blue Talyllyn was announced with Ffestiniog Railway Gunpowder Wagons.

At least HO and N Scale still have engines coming, but the lack of anything new for Narrow Gauge is what really made it disappointing when there's almost not a backlog for it at all, with the only new Narrow Gauge announcements being for the Talyllyn line. May not be until summer before we get more exciting announcements. Wasn't there supposed to be a product celebrating 80 years of Thomas as a character, or was it the Ffarquhar Quarry Wagon?

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My Dcc Bachmann trolley makes a weird clacking sound when running. When I opened it up the motor housing is moving up and down when running.

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Just checked the catalog.

Discontinuations this round seem to be Raspberry syrup tanker, the sodor coal co. wagon, G scale tar tanker, slate truck #178, and the old peco open wagon (no real surprise.)

Interestingly, Knapford isn't in the catalog. I hope this is an oversight and it wasn't cancelled.

I see that the digital version of the catalog is up, but I can't access it. Can somebody post images of the new products they announced please?

Is anyone else getting an error message when trying to view the 2026 Catalog online? When I try to open the link to it, it just says "404 Not Found. The requested URL was not found on this server."

EDIT: It has been fixed now.

I'm in a weird spot with the announcements especially in HO.

The FQC trucks are cool to see, but knowing wagon yard has already made them and in two colors I feel less excited for it than I should probably be. If it was a more unique color like the goldish yellow from the books I might be more on board, although if this does well maybe that'll come later. (and who knows, if it gets into N it could boost Mavis's chances as well.)

The brakevan is neat, but a little weird it is just RWS spiteful, number and all. It's still neat but I almost would have rather a more generic one to army build better.

I don't really have any thoughts on CGI fuel wagon, it makes sense especially with the new chassis but I don't particularly love this design.

The diesel fuel wagon annoys me, as the stamps aren't made to fully wrap the text so there is some letter cutoff, and the barrels are inaccurate. Expected but not particularly thrilled with that unfortunately. Hope that can be tweaked between sample and final.

The painted express coaches look amazing, and the additional wagon recolors are nice to see. Although a tiny nitpick is the van being in the middle of the sequence of open wagons, not sure why these are segmented like that, maybe the van wasn't the original plan? The two engines look nice, hoping for updates on the new molds soon

G scale getting love is nice, 2 new wagons and a reintroduction is really appreciated. Although the tanker is labelled as Tidmouth, wonder what design we'll get in the final.

Blue Talyllyn very happy about, rode behind her and she's a beautiful loco, will be picking up for sure. Matt alluded to potentially doing Hayden's current livery on stream as well and that is something I'd love to see. The gunpowder wagons are really neat as well.


Overall, I'm not disappointed but some of these announcements aren't as cool as they probably are for other people. Although it makes sense to keep things light while they continue to catch up, look forward to the next announcements.

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Not terribly exciting announcements, to be totally honest, but with everything going on right now, it's understandable.

The highlight for me, easily, is the NW brake van for HO. That was probably the one thing I was especially excited for in the 80th anniversary set, and I'm so glad that at least is making it out as its own release. The Ffarquhar company wagon is also fun; definitely getting both of these. I don't have too much of an opinion on the CGI fuel tank, other than that it was a pretty obvious choice after the milk tank announcement.

Shockingly, the announcements I'm least excited for are in N scale. I don't mind the stock itself, and I had a feeling they'd be repaints. The blue open wagon is fine, and I'm glad to see Mr. Jolly's van in N scale as well, the latter I'll be picking up for sure. Still no BR brake van, but it is what it is, I guess. Hopefully that gets announced this summer along with the coal wagon with load.

Large scale getting some form of love is always welcome. The milk tank reintroduction and the fun fair vans will, I'm sure, make people who model in G scale happy to at least get something.

I love the blue Talyllyn announcement, as well as the gunpowder van repaints. I am a little disappointed that the Thomas narrow gauge line didn't get anything new this year, considering all we're waiting on are the gunpowder vans, and those are already finished. Hopefully that changes at the NMRA this summer, which generally seems to be when the more exciting announcements happen. So here's hoping we get some new engine announcements then.

Apart from the lack of narrow gauge announcements on the Thomas side, I'd say this is a pretty solid lineup rolling-stock-wise. Gordon's coaches look gorgeous in the picture I saw from Christian this morning, and I like how the N scale LBSC Thomas and Origin James models look too. They skipped the tail lamp decal on James and only added the red lining, which I'm really glad they did. I'll be passing on both of these, since I am only collecting model era characters only in N but maybe I'll pick up Origin James at a much later point since the tail lamp decal is not included.  But the N scale express coaches I am buying day 1 and I'm even tempted to get the flat car with diesel fuel loads too.

Either way, can't wait to see and hear more updates on these announcements and more later this year.