2016 Lionel American Flyer Wish List

That was a special paint job for a February 1964 General Electric sales campaign in Southern California, long after the last fire was dropped in 1957 on the Santa Fe.  By March, they saw a red chooch and they had to paint it black (Sorry, Mick...) .  I'm not even sure the 1010 was fired up for the promotion, being there's a coal pile on top of the tender's oil tank.

The Pacific/Mikado tooling is too nice to screw it up to try to make a stand-in for the rather homely 1000 class Prairie.

For those desiring a red Locomotive, look for the Flyer Alton Pacific, at least it's a lot closer to Alton's 4-6-2's:

Color doesn't necessarily sell, I keep seeing Flyer Southern Mikado's going for less than what they initially sold for:

Might as well paint the Flyer Northern gold...

Rusty

You guys are bringing a smile to my face.  We just got the 2016 catalog so probably Lionel is months from planning or thinking about new Flyer tooling.  I don't think posting here causes Lionel to produce anything.  Look at what came out in the catalog after all the suggestions and ideas that were posted here.

Well, you might take credit for the Katy SD70?? 

When I interview Lionel at York in April I hope to get an idea of what is cooking.  Normally they released the catalog right before York so they are 4 months ahead this year.

Write more and let me grin for a month.  I love this stuff.  

Seriously, I'm not really worried about the next catalog because I believe there will be even less for the scale modeler than the current one... 

Except for the continuing mortal remains of the cylindrical hoppers...

Now there may be some new things of interest for the Flyer guys and that's OK, but that's not where my attention's shifted to.

Rusty

Roundhouse Bill posted:

You guys are bringing a smile to my face.  

Write more and let me grin for a month.  I love this stuff.  

We aims to please!

Rusty

How about a steamer that puts out smoke like my 65 year old ones? and  not at a thousand dollars!

Gunny

Mark,

  I have one of the Berkshire's and I only ran it about twenty minutes poor smoke and a SQUEAK!  Sent it back for repair they returned it said they replaced smoke unit.This time it circled 8' oval about ten times and stalled halfway around stall&stall &stall .

The smoke output was very weak and it is going back again

LAST ONE FOR ME!

Gunny

Too bad Gunny as my Berk is great and smokes better than any of my Legacy steamers.  I ordered a new FlyerChief Northern because of the way the Berk performs.

My boy has gotta have significant run time on my NKP Berk, every other day for 20 to 40 minuets (sometimes hours in a day) and so far...knock on wood...runs as good as anything I have.  Fantastic slow speed roll too.  

Ben 

Rusty Traque posted:

 

Might as well paint the Flyer Northern gold...

Rusty

I would not mind the CB&Q O5 and/or O5A northerns in s-scale if Lionel did them. I not really a big "Q" guy but they sure did have some of my favorite freight color (Chinese Red, Black and Gray and that white color on their EMD F-3's). Come one LIONEL bring out scale sized GP-7/9's in either Chinese Red the Everywhere West slogan or Route of the Zephyrs slogan. 

TRAINMANTIM posted:

I would not mind the CB&Q O5 and/or O5A northerns in s-scale if Lionel did them. I not really a big "Q" guy but they sure did have some of my favorite freight color (Chinese Red, Black and Gray and that white color on their EMD F-3's). Come one LIONEL bring out scale sized GP-7/9's in either Chinese Red the Everywhere West slogan or Route of the Zephyrs slogan. 

Actually Everywhere West appeared on the engineer's side, Way of the Zephyrs on the fireman's side on the Blackbird's.  The slogans did not appear on the Redbirds, replaced by the large Burlington lettering as illustrated on this River Raisin SD9.

The slogans did appear on the Chinese red boxcars (again one on each side) in far less grand script:

Rusty

What really gets me is the quality built in to the forties and fifties locomotives and the lack of it today!

I doubt the pick up contacts on the new engines will last three or four years versus some of my old ones which have gone 69 years!!

Gunny

Rusty Traque posted:

TRAINMANTIM posted:

I would not mind the CB&Q O5 and/or O5A northerns in s-scale if Lionel did them. I not really a big "Q" guy but they sure did have some of my favorite freight color (Chinese Red, Black and Gray and that white color on their EMD F-3's). Come one LIONEL bring out scale sized GP-7/9's in either Chinese Red the Everywhere West slogan or Route of the Zephyrs slogan. 

Actually Everywhere West appeared on the engineer's side, Way of the Zephyrs on the fireman's side on the Blackbird's.  The slogans did not appear on the Redbirds, replaced by the large Burlington lettering as illustrated on this River Raisin SD9.

The slogans did appear on the Chinese red boxcars (again one on each side) in far less grand script:

Rusty

Thank you Rusty for the black bird name. At time I was writing the post before I couldn't think of that name. The diesel that Burlington had that I think would be nice to have are the SD24's, heck U30c's (which are C&S/CB&Q units) in Chinese wouldn't be bad.  Since the SD24's were built in 59 and into the 60's, they would only be in Chinese red? Are the CB&Q boxcars from American Models or S-Helper? 

TRAINMANTIM posted:

 

The slogans did appear on the Chinese red boxcars (again one on each side) in far less grand script:

Rusty

Thank you Rusty for the black bird name. At time I was writing the post before I couldn't think of that name. The diesel that Burlington had that I think would be nice to have are the SD24's, heck U30c's (which are C&S/CB&Q units) in Chinese wouldn't be bad.  Since the SD24's were built in 59 and into the 60's, they would only be in Chinese red? Are the CB&Q boxcars from American Models or S-Helper? 

Tim, 

The SD24's were the first locomotives delivered in Chinese red. 

The boxcars are Pacific Rail Shops kits from around 2001-2002 if I remember correctly.  They were fundraisers for a Colorado club in order to host a convention.  Three road numbers were offered in CB&Q, two in C&S and one in FW&D.  Today, I'm kicking myself for not getting the C&S and FW&D cars.

AM still offers a CB&Q boxcar and SHS did a CB&Q custom run for John Huster about a decade ago.

Rusty