Didn't exist!!!

Much too many to list, but here's a few:

Lionel Phantom

Lionel Daylight Cab Forward

Lionel Crayola

Lionel NASCAR

LIONEL Girls Train set

and a whole bunch more... I like 'em all, pretty much.

If it didn't exist, it ain't my favorite, and I TRY to avoid it.

I guess we should include Lionel Lines here. I buy what I like so my list could get long. Could become an interesting thread if they stay on topic.

I must agree with you, Jim. Lionel Lines is right up there.

I agree Jim.  I am hoping this doesn't devolve into the usual, "I don't like it" thread, and stay on topic for those of us who do like non-proto stuff.

My favorite was my MTH premier Caterpillar SD90's with a 12 car consist of Premier Cat roling stock. I say was because I had to thin the collection and I had to sell it. Currently It is my Premier Santa Fe Blue Goose set with a 10 car matching passenger set and the 2 R50B matching reefers that are not prototypical. It is such a beautiful set! I going to try to hold on to that set for a long time.

Aside from a couple of Lionel Lines items, here's my favorite "what might have been" paint schemes.

By the way Stangerdude, MTH was prophetic with that Cat SD90. Right idea; wrong locomotive; a few years too early. I also occasionally think about getting a set of Blue Goose rolling stock to go with the locomotive.

Really?

This one.

The MPC era Disney train. 

PW President's passenger train.

Depends whether you are defining "didn't exist" as "didn't exist with that paint scheme" or "didn't exist at all." 

That's the only way I would run that locomotive.

Williams Chessie System FM Trainmaster.

NCT, I actually have that engine.  It is a looker.

Prairie with a booster truck?

My Lionel 2037, 2-6-4, an American Adriatic.

"This one"

Brian, did ever do the video of this bad boy pulling your Daylight consist?

Lionel rail scope engine and caboose.

hello guys and gals...........

The CORRECT "die-cast" boiler for the S.F.5011. The boiler on the MTH's S.F.5012 is wrong type just compared the MTH's 2-10-4 to Sunset 3rd 2-10-4 and you see big differences between them. If want the correct boiler S.F.5011's ,Sunset is the way to go.  The MTH boiler is from the S.F.4-8-4's class 2900's. The CORRECT Die-cast boiler for the S.F. 2-10-4 does not exist !!!! No one makes a Die cast or brass version of the

S.F.5000 or 5001 class 2-10-4's except there are brass versions of both types in H.O. scale. PFM make a GOOD brass model of the 5011's in H.O. The S.F.5011's tractive effort is 108,961 LBS and S.F. does not have boosters check out steamlocomotive.com.

Tiffany

None.

Hello Grampstrains.......

I believe MPC era Lionel did made a blue and yellow SD-18, the numbers are 8872, 8873 I think it was.

Tiffany

Mth Pittsburgh Steelers SD 70.  I also like my "Take a ride on the Reading" Monopoly caboose by

lionel.

I've always liked the PWC 736 Berkshire. The Lionel Showroom NYC F3's is another one.

Bill

Lionel Phantoms and the Lionel Ice Cold Express set

"Brian, did ever do the video of this bad boy pulling your Daylight consist?"

Not yet, Forrest. It was such a bad winter for us so we spent very little time out in the train room. Most of the time was spent working on the PE layout at the house where bad weather was not a consideration.

Coming soon, since we finished the PE layout and the weather has turned nice. We have a lot of sprucing up on this layout to do first.

most of my lionel postwar collection, lol

Well most of my Lionel steam locomotives never existed...including the tenders. They are all postwar and lets face it...the Pensy K4 was not a 2-6-2...right?

the postwar usmc items that im still hunting for...  Especially the flying helicopter car

The scale coors light engine. After all, we know that the real thing was semi scale at best *lol*

The entire Coors train actually. A nice show piece but I never saw a real one.

Hey, don't encourage him Forrest.        

John, coming soon to you local theatre as a feature length film. 

Brian,

i'm really looking forward to seeing that beautiful engine in its natural element; pulling those great Daylight passenger cars of yours. That is going to be one great consist.

So your favorite is the Lionel version of a K-4 right?!?! 

I always liked the Gilbert AF Silver Bullet passenger set when I was a kid in the late 50s.

This checkerboard scheme was never on an F3 to my knowledge.....I've seen it on an experimental New Haven engine that they road-tested.

Peter

jhz563,

    Got to agree as far as engines go the MTH Steelers Super Bowl SD 70, in fact the entire Steelers Super Bowl Train, is my number one fantasy Train, just plain great stuff!

However my all time favorite fantasy piece of rolling stock, is the Bill Maz Box Car.  Long before the Steelers were a great team, I got to watch the the very best 2nd baseman in the history of baseball turn double plays and win the 1960's World Series in the bottom of the 9th, with the greatest home run ever hit, and as a boy Billy Maz and Dick Groat taught me how to make the turn on 2nd Base, learning on the original Dick Groat Field in Swissvale, Pa, where Pie Trainer had his original Little league Base Ball instructional outings, featuring the Pittsburgh Pirates Players.  Went to college on a full ride because of Maz and Groat's instructions, to me nothing tops the Billy Maz Box Car, nothing ever will.

PCRR/Dave

Lionel Lines.

I could name a LOT- esp in this modern era but I don't have these "fantasy" scemes in my collection- Something I try to avoid wasting my hard earned $$ on.

I really like the Bicentennial PRR GG1 and Freedom Train PA ABA, both made by MTH.  The GG1 is a "what if" paint scheme had the PRR lasted until 1976.  The PA set is partially correct for the prototype; the lead A-unit does represent the actual 1947 Freedom Train engine.  However, there were no B- or trailing A-units.  I run these with MTH's fantasy seven car American Freedom Train set at train shows; the nearly all white set draws a lot of attention.