Features you would love to see Lionel add to their products, post here.

I'd love to see them figure out a scale/kadee sized electrocoupler.  Yes, I know there are ways to do remote uncoupling with Kadees, but I like the way electrocouplers work.

I have a few ideas. Here they are:

-Better Crewtalk similar to MTH DCS/PS3

-Sand fill and application features with accompanying sounds

-Dynamic brake feature with sound

-A new Universal Legacy System with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi built in

-Road name- and road number-specific Crewtalk/Towercomm (TMCC engines, Vision Line engines, and older Legacy engines had this)

-Sensor Track sensors on LC+2.0 Locos

-Some improvements to the LCS App:

-DCS App-style speed control

-Numerical keypad for addressing

-Quilling whistle/horn

-An I-Cab App improvement: DCS App-style speed control

A universal Legacy 2.0 that would run any train in o scale ever made including DCS and lionchief with out the need for additional hardware

a locomotive camera

VSR on every engine including legacy

a way to run conventional engines and older legacy with bluetooth

Would love to see a premium Lionel app that would access all Legacy features through bluetooth without the need for a Legacy base or any other additional equipment. Probably not even possible but I could hope for something in the future with todays technology.

Brad

I'd like to see step and walkway lights on diesels.

Doug

Smart smoke units.  One that would turn off before burning up the batting and providing a signal (light flashing sequence) that warned you it is time to fill it back up.  I've had enough of underfill/overfill and all that comes with it.

@Steims posted:

Smart smoke units.  One that would turn off before burning up the batting and providing a signal (light flashing sequence) that warned you it is time to fill it back up.  I've had enough of underfill/overfill and all that comes with it.

This is a good idea - but what I'd like to add is this - what if the locomotive were to have an actual reservoir from which the smoke unit could draw from.  This would eliminate the need to constantly refill the unit after running for a short while.

The reservoir could be contained within the tender and drawn into the locomotive via a small hose.  Then those of you who have the operating Lionel Water tower would fill the tender instead of the smoke stack.

I want a printer and computer program to make our own decals for engines and rolling stock. Then Lionel could sell an undecorated version of their products for people who didn't get the livery they wanted in the catalog.

Road-Specific dialogue once again becoming one of the standard legacy features, and better crewtalk.

quality/ no defects and correct paint colors right out of the box. for each new engine offered.🤣

seriously though. I would love to see the ipad app in andriod version. I hate apple products. my old apple Ipad I was using for the lcs app locked up on me and now I cant get it working. so its got me rethinking my control pannel ideas again.

@The Pullman posted:

Road-Specific dialogue once again becoming one of the standard legacy features, and better crewtalk.

Agreed! My older legacy engines have this but many of my newer ones do not. Also more announcements similar to what DCS offers.

One thing everyone seems to miss is that the crew talk is not at all close to the proper vernacular for the times.  They never said "copy that" in the 1940's.  I even question the use of "roger...".       There are other parts of the crew talk that were not used in the 1930's, 40's or 50's.  A simpleton could figure this one out.  This said, I would like to see crew talk etc., at least as good as MTH has in their products.  Like many other things, their talk blows away the Lionel version.

One other feature (two in one) I would like to see are scale couplers on everything.  The cars are scale, lets get the couplers fixed!  Coupled to this would be accurately sized scale wheels, even if they had to have large flanges.  When Dick Maddox was at Atlas, I tested a few two rail scale truck added to some three rail pieces of rolling stock.  If the car was properly weighted, it did not derail on any of the available three rail tracks of that time era.

I believe my second wish list feature is LONG overdue!

As a hearing impaired person I would love if Lionel upgraded the blue tube chip they used in their engines so I could connect the sound directly to my bearings aids the way I connect them to my cellphone This would also allow the sound to be directly connected to blue tooth equipped speakers placed around the layout

@CarGuyZM10 posted:

I want a printer and computer program to make our own decals for engines and rolling stock. Then Lionel could sell an undecorated version of their products for people who didn't get the livery they wanted in the catalog.

I want an inkjet printer that could print decals with the color White.

I would like a $50 box that would be controlled by the universal LionChief control and operate track power, whistle. and bell for a single conventional engine. The center shift button would control direction.

I would like a second $50 box that would connect all my expensive Lionel Fastrack switches to a computer for LionChief customers.

And... I would like more LionChief Plus+ engines that are a little less expensive and have less electronics than 2.0

Hey John,

Look into an Arduino with a relay shield to do what you want with the switches.  All the code to do what you are asking is probably already in the public domain.  Lots of sites provide Arduino listings for tons of relatively simple applications.  An Arduino and relay shield might cost under $40.00.  You already have a PC, and the Arduino software is free downloads.

Do a little leg work, and take your mind off things that you, as an individual, cannot control or change.