If Lionel made the Frisco 1522 in Legacy would you purchase?

I would consider it

No.

Maybe, but I would rather opt for Lionel to do the NKP #587. This is just a personal nostalgic preference. Don't get me wrong, it is a pretty nice engine, and it would be nice if anyone made it at all.

Nice!  But not for me.

Maybe I would consider it if Lionel did it prototypically. 3rd. Rail is more likely to make it before Lionel.

YES................................

Yes, 1522 is a great locomotive and I have seen it in action.

No. It's a great engine with an interesting history as a steam era survivor. I'm surprised no one has made a model of it. BUT, I have too many trains already and at this point, the only locomotives I'm buying are Milwaukee Road or European.  

No, But I would like a Harriman Consolidation to be redone. Have the first one that they made in 2000, still runs like a champ.

Not doing the 1522 when she was operating was a missed opportunity by any one of the manufacturers.

Rusty

I'd buy one in a second.Lionel has the tooling for this one and has offered it in (Southern,WP and New Haven).It's basically a modernized USRA design.Lionel could easily offer this and a MOPAC version.All they would have to do is add RR specific brass details and as they are now very good at this. Of course most of you know I'd throw the cash down on any big Frisco,Missouri Pacific,KCS and Cotton Belt steam. I'm now discovering lots of overlooked large steam for RR's in the deep south and there's a lot!

The NC and StL "Dixie" 4-8-4 and Atlanta and West Point 4-8-4 come to mind.

No.

I would have said no, until I heard and saw the video of the 1522 running...

I really like the "steam boat" whistle.

Have to agree, this engine has a wonderful whistle.

The 1522 is on my list. I would buy one.

Not me.  My interest is in eastern roads.

Did get to see it run once, no to purchasing a model of it.

Yes. There are several examples of these Frisco 4-8-2's around (Mobile has one - in sad shape, though); Frisco gave several away. But, like the MoPac, the Frisco was mostly out in that Big, Anonymous Area that just generates little modeling interest. It did get as far East as Mobile and Pensacola (FL), but most of it was in the area that's not Western, not Midwestern, not Southern. Katy had the same problem.

So I'm not surprised about the kinda silly relative lack of interest - but I'd buy one.

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Boomer - the Frisco heavy 4-8-2's were indeed germinated from the USRA Heavy 4-8-2, but are quite different from them in many ways; they don't even have the USRA "look" - Frisco built the boilers lower, which made the domes and stack higher (almost earlier-era looking).

- The A&WP (and corporate sister Western of Alabama) had no 4-8-4's. They had 4-8-2's, some from the FEC, USRA Light Mountain-based, with many detail differences. They had some really big Mikados.

- I had hopes for a NC&StL Dixie in brass from Weaver (I've requested it more than once) one day, but that apparently is not going to happen now, for sure...and I doubt that 3rd Rail will bother with anything from this part of the country (California's perspective is...distant). I'm going to have to build one; I have the frame/running gear donor picked out.

The Dixie is so good-looking (but in as-built form only!) that it can stay in the same room as the N&W J 4-8-4 and even the Dreyfuss Century and Dreyfuss Empire State Hudsons.

Nope.  I have the MTH Meteor 4-8-4.  Yes, I know that the MTH created the Frisco/MKT Meteor from the S. Fe 3751, but that monster blue 4-8-4 with the Meteor tender is

hard to beat.  I remember seeing it as a boy roar through suburban St. Louis.

lewrail

Simple answer.....YES   YES   and   YES.

I got to ride on this amazing engine once,,,,,not for long, but long enough to remember.

I only buy engines that fit my era or roadname & number criteria (in my case western roads) not for audio aesthetics, so for me the answer would be nay.

Its seems this locomotive has just faded into history.

Its amazing how some locomotives plagued with the same fire box and flue issues can  come up with funds and are back on the rails in a few years (thank goodness) while others are doomed to storage for the rest of their lives as a static display.

YES.  I chased this loco many times.  I fell in love with the loco...to the point knowing which SLSTA engineer was at the throttle/whistle cable.

This is my all time favorite video...of any steam loco: 1522

Rob, 

Enjoyed the video, thank you. Its tough to have a dedicated steam program when you cannot make any money at it. I know when I was kid I would kill to go on a steam engine ride, however there weren't that many around.

My kids sure enjoys them, we are going to miss the Owasso steam festival not occurring this year. 

I missed the Texas tour by only a couple of weeks... 

There is no way to "make any money"with a steam locomotive on a main line railroad. As our esteemed OGR Webmaster has stated many, many, many times, "Steam locomotives really do NOT burn coal/oil, they burn MONEY!".

I always felt the 1522 had the sharpest exhaust of any steam engine running at that time.  

Yes; put me down for one.

 I just received the latest issue of Railroad Model Craftman and on pages 92-93 there is a brief article on detailing an HO model of one of these locomotives.  

Would love to have an O Scale version.

Steve

be a great locomotive to have, but it would be out of my budget.

This would be a hard model for me to ignore...

Jeff C

No, I wouldn't buy one.

I've wondered why nobody has offered that Florida East Coast class of 4-8-2 that the FEC sold off to such railroads as the Western Pacific, the Cotton Belt and that class of 4-8-2 they sold off to the National Railways of Mexico.

I would not buy it.

Jeff Davis

How about Frisco 1630?

That being a "Russian Decapod", formerly of the Eagle Pitcher and Frisco RR, didn't MTH offer those sometime back?