NdeM single-unit Centipede? Now THAT gets my attention. My buying is down to
nearly zero, but this could be nice. I already have a custom-painted (by me) Weaver
NdeM FA-2; they would be complimentary.
But, it'll never see the light of day. Will it?
The L&N NW-2 was on my "probably" list, and now the NW-2's are gone. This surprises me, actually; was it perhaps more a capacity decision, as opposed to a units pre-ordered one?
Well, it's not quite the paint scheme I was hoping for, but I think I may spring for the dummy unit to go along with the ES44 Hybrid that I grabbed "on sale" last month at the Train Stop in San Dimas, CA. 
The dummy unit will be a bit easier on the wallet too! 
David
Lionel is way behind putting out dummy units for their big diesels. There have been a bunch of SD-70s and Dash 9s made recently with two differently numbered powered units, but no dummies.
Wow, Chris must be excited. He's posted this to every Vol2 thread 
Don't the dealers usually receive hard copies earlier? Could they possibly have them this week?
so now there are like 6 threads on the same subject.
Wow, Chris must be excited. He's posted this to every Vol2 thread
All in an effort to prevent the fourth thread that appeared LOL
Exactly what I don't need is another #611! I hope Lionel realizes there are thirteen (actually twelve minus the 606) other numbers they can use.
If you're referring to the BNSF Heritage diesels just released, the dummy units were actually released with the power units, except the quantities of dummy units appear EXTREMELY limited.
No, I'm referring to the SF AC6000, BNSF ES44AC, KCS ES44AC, Soo SD60, BN SD60, CSX SD60, CN Dash 9, Amtrak Dash 9, BNSF Dash 9, all 5 U-Boats, NS SD70M2, CN SD70M2, FED SD70M2, UP ES44AC, BNSF ES44AC, and KCS ES44AC, among others released in the past two years. No dummies have been offered with any of them.
Aside from offering B-units (sometimes a couple of years later) to F3/F7 powered AA units, I can't really speak to Lionel's track record WRT delivering locomotive dummy units after the fact vs. when they catalog both the dummy and power units together.
OTOH, when they catalog power/dummy together, they tend to deliver both together (within reason), although not in equal quantities.
MTH offered dummy units (i.e., "-3" suffix in the product number) with their diesel powered units a couple of catalogs ago. But I think they've cut back on that practice in 2012.
I guess the importers prefer that we spend the big bucks if we want to double- or triple-head those long freight trains with modern era diesels! Dealers -- even the big ones -- often seem challenged WRT to the "right" quantities of dummy units to order. Nobody wants to carry excess inventory these days.
David
Well, their track record over the past several decades is that they have not been offering dummies in catalogs following release of the powered engines. Back in the MPC days, they occasionally would.
I don't know if there's an effort being made to sell more powered engines or not, as you speculate, but if so it doesn't make sense that they're making fantasy dummies for the heritage units. If they can make them for the fantasy engines, you'd think they could do so for the real ones.
So I see the countdown clock with the cover of the new catalog on the Lionel website, so my question is any dealers have advance copies already?
Called mercer juction today dave told me nothing yet...
Where are those "leaks" that show up about this time? I remember when the 261 was released we had a few pictures from the catalog before the catalog could be viewed.
The cover has 2 steamers on it on the lionels web site.. A Mohawk l2 and the N&W j...
No matter what, count on paid members of the LRRC to receive their catalogs by about Thanksgiving!
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