Lionel 2014 Volume 2 Catalog is Up-What are you ordering?

Deciding on some Southern diesels. Love the high hood GP30, and missed pre-ordering the Trainmaster. 

 

Just a few of the operating playgrounds and swings. I wish they would come out with more automated accessories, like scale type carnival rides!!

I am still trying to sort out Lionels PWC products!

Yes, i am late to the ball as usual, but trying to play catch up!

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I like the C&NW dealer set.

WOW! $649.00 msrp for reissued diesels!

Shop around. I had sticker shock at first but street prices are a bit more reasonable. I am in for the South Buffalo S-2s, maybe the NYC 10 wheeler.

 

Pete

Yeah.....$650  for an S-2 is crazy......well, if Lionel can't move them maybe they will offer them weathered in 2016!! 

I only have 4 Lionel grain elevators, I probably should get at least one more. 

 

Art

I see a lot of 18" passenger cars.  They used to be my favorite, but now only the 21" cars are looking right to me.

 

Art

I'm liking the Gantry Crane and the PS-1's.

Some can be ordered now and some are 2015 preview, but here are my definite orders.

• I see several GP30s that I'd like, but have narrowed it down to one...the TP&W in bicentennial paint
• Lionel Steel Culvert Gondola
• Lionel Lines Coal Dump Car
• Lionel Industrial Coal Hopper

Nothing. I already got what I wanted from volume 1.

Nothing caught my eye. No new scale steam. All reruns. Already have the JLC Y's. 

Still waiting for items announced a year ago.

not now I wanted brand New Accessories NOT reruns.  can't wait for the day they Do. TOM SR.

A UP caboose and some more reefers. I love the Aux Tenders but already ordered the MTH versions.

I was relieved there was no new scale UP steamers!

Overall, I think Lionel's Version 2 Catalog is bigger than I expected and is a nice addition to Version 1.

Some Lion Chief, Plus locos. TBD.

Some interesting items there but the prices take your breath away. I'm likely to order the GP30 in Milwaukee Road - it's about the only diesel I can think of that I actually want and don't have already. $600 MSRP translates to a bit over $450 RW (real world), which is a lot of money for a diesel, but at least Lionel went to the trouble to put the correct AAR trucks on the Milwaukee and GM&O versions. A lot of us have been hoping that somebody would put out a Milwaukee/GM&O/Soo GP-30 with the correct trucks, and Lionel has beaten MTH to the punch on this one. I'm still annoyed about the overpriced Legacy Bi-Polar I pre-ordered a couple of years ago and two months later it was on blowout for $200 less than I paid (which was the best available pre-order price), but since the GP-30 is BTO that probably won't happen. 

 

At least the hit to my wallet will be spread out - I heard from a usually reliable source that Lionel plans to offer the USRA Heavy Mikado in Milwaukee Road next fall, and that's a thousand-dollar must-have. 

 

Price increases and overflowing storage space have caused me to cut way, way back on new train purchases. There are some nice freight cars in the new catalog - in past years I'd have automatically checked the GTW covered gondola and the PS-1 boxcars in DSSA and Green Bay & Western - but I'll probably hold off and see if they turn up on blowout or in the secondary market. 

I've been wanting a Camelback with those features for the longest time!  Too bad they didn't make a Long Island one!

 

Jon

Looks great.

 

1. B &O NW-2

 

2. N & W FM

 

3. SP FM

 

4. SP crane in Daylight colors.  I was with the real one at Railfair 99.

 

 

I ordered what I wanted from the first catalog, I'm not going to order anything from this catalog

but I still think the catalog has a lot to offer. Great work by Lionel.

 

 

Thanks,

Alex

Nothing..I am holding out for Charlie Nassau's LIRR exclusive announcement.

I see a lot of 18" passenger cars.  They used to be my favorite, but now only the 21" cars are looking right to me.

 Once you go there, it's hard to come back.

A few pieces of rolling stock, aux tender, and maybe a caboose, that's it! Nice break for the bank account for this catalog.

Didn't see anything that is a must have, will wait to see if anything hits Charlies warehouse sales next year.

 

Actually I'm sorry to say that's also largely my initial reaction. I have items that are in this catalog I have already ordered (SP Legacy crane and boom car) and apart from those there are just three things that catch my eye; the "headline" YB6 steamer (although I really would not contemplate paying the MRSP of nearly $2 grand for this and even the pre-order prices when they come out may be too much), the Big Boy survivors caboose and the coaling tower.

 

Still, I reckon Lionel deserve praise for putting out products that span their customer base and I wish them great success.

As it has been said A Picture is Worth ... .

Probably some of the operating accessories, just have to narrow down which ones.

Is it just me or are those the exact same autoracks and 86'hicubes from last catalog?

Don't count on it.  These are BTO, so unless dealers go wild ordering lots of "extras", these may not get made at all.  You won't find me spending the $470 street price for something that wouldn't move on the OGR for-sale forum for $300 tops... and more likely in the $225-$250 range. 

 

 

 

 

The $470 street price is still way too steep for my blood.  This is a switcher for gosh sakes -- not an ES44. 

 

 

 

 

But still no StationSounds add-ons.    Delivery of the announced 18" cars is nowhere to be seen.  Latest ETA's are pushed out to Nov/Dec 2014, but I don't get the warm-and-fuzzies with these delivery dates.  I think it'll be well into 2015 before Lionel's aluminum passenger cars arrive.   Suggest we use delivery of the CZ and N&W Pocahontas sets as bell-weathers of Lionel's ability to delivery aluminum passenger cars again.  Both sets were cataloged quite awhile ago... so if Lionel produces on a FIFO basis, it'll be quite some time before we see the more recently announced 18" aluminum passenger cars.

 

As for StationSounds cars, I guess we're better off making our own for now.  GunrunnerJohn has been doing that, and I can see why. 

 

David

I'll talk myself into at least one of the LionChief Plus locos.   Nothing stands-out yet.

I love the Legacy cranes but none are the right road names.  Maybe next time?

 

Art

 

Could very well be, Martin.  This is a Volume 2 catalog, and it's not uncommon to see a lot of stuff "re-catalog'd" from Volume 1 -- especially the non-BTO rolling stock that's gonna get made regardless of consumer interest.  Lionel has gotta keep the fire stoked so to speak.  Think of it as a manufacturer/importer "push sale" rather than a consumer "pull sale".

 

David

Was looking at the Lionel 1948 catalog just last, boy has O scale come a long way since those "Glory Days," this catalog is another real winner for Lionel. 

 

As to Brian's question, I will be on the fence, the auto racks and auto parts cars keep calling to me, but those will may every well wait another year.

I pre-ordered the Legacy ten-wheeler, the LC+ Camelback, and a UP water tender from patrick's Trains.  I'll wait and watch for a Union Pacific Legacy S-2 and a B&O Shark B unit, 'cause  those three hit the pre-order limit I set for myself. 

Nothing that I can't live without in this catalog.

 

DITTO

 

With an MSRP of $80 for a PS-1 Boxcar, that makes the $250 per car price on the GGD El Capitan set look like a steal.  

Must be fruit salad day on the OGR forum. Whole lot of apples and oranges everywhere I look