Lionel Future Years: What Do You Want?

It would be cool if Lionel did an official poll for a customer determined engine.  I wonder if the items for C1 for 2015 are already determined.  Maybe Mike will chime in.

As far as wish list Vision Line items....

ATSF Madame Queen

0-6-0 Switch Engine

Tank Engine

ATSF F3

Vision Line Caboose with real wood sides, flickering fire light in the stove with highly detailed interior and sounds (no cab chatter just freight sounds)

I'm going to be somewhat small in my desires, but I do hope that Lionel will listen to all of us and be able to find a happy medium:

Vision Line:

-Reading 4-8-4 T-1's with whistle steam and blow-down - in multiple roadnames and numbers

Scale Steam:

-Nickel Plate Road #587 2-8-2 USRA Light Mikado (with the Berkshire tender) with whistle steam smoke. (This one I'd love to see made most. Be the first to make it Lionel!)

-New York Central J3A 4-6-4 Hudson with whistle steam smoke

-New York Central L3A 4-8-2 Mohawk (with and without elephant ears) with whistle steam smoke

Traditional:

-Conventional Classics #1430WS Lionel Lines Set with a #2025 K5 2-6-2 Steamer and 3 Green and Yellow 2400 series passenger cars

Lionchief:

-Edward the Blue Engine (Thomas the Tank Engine line)

-Toby the Tram Engine (Thomas the Tank Engine line)

Again, I want to say we all appreciate the hard work you put in all your products Lionel, and we appreciate listening to even the smallest suggestions. Thank you.

I would like to see 2 steam engines in Vision Line.

C&O L2a "Hudson"

C&O K3/K3a "Super Mikado" offering both the 6 axle "Vanderbilt Tender", and the big 21-RG Tender 30 tons coal/21,000 gal h20, as used on the Kanawha/Berkshire Locomotives.

Offer as free retrofit kits Legacy Cab Forward sounds with correct whistle.

Reasonably priced Legacy up-grade kits to convert/up grade ANY model to Legacy control/sounds.

A Vision Line Lionel Legacy DREYFUSS HUDSON!!! I was disappointed when they canceled the production.  

Legacy Santa Fe F3

I'll second a Legacy J3a, how about an optional PT tender.

A Legacy Niagara, WITHOUT all of the issues that the TMCC version has.Bring back that Niagara whistle in quillable form, its one of Lionels best.

Neither of these locos has ever been offered in 13 years,there has already been legacy remakes of most others. We seem to get berkshires and mohawks over and over.

From what I understand 15' is pretty well planned out already and pre planning meetings are already underway for 2016. This is a critical part of getting the production schedule down to a science so they hit delivery dates when they promise.

A Vision Line Hiawatha Hudson (emphasis on HUDSON). C&O yellow belly Hudson. Santa Fe Blue Goose. Empire state express. Commodore Vanderbilt.

A Scale Florida Tri Rail diesel with passenger cars.

.... and a bag of those "stick on rivets" in case any are missing

Expand the LionChief Plus line and accessories, accessories, accessories. Would love to see Lionel reissue some classics or come out with some new ones.

An actual picture of the item they are selling.

Not this:

As an alternative, a person who will actually tell you what the item will look like.

Pete

I'm sure it's already on their list, but a rerun of the Pere Marquette Caboose 6-27605.

Baldwin 3-cylinder compound 4-10-2 No. 60000 in The Train Factory (formerly Railroad Hall) in The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.

Legacy #990 Command Set.

A VL UP FEF, and all the steam effects!

Legacy RUTLAND 10 Wheeler with milk cars and a woodsided caboose. Would make a real nice set. All the NE milk cars made in previous years need a prototypical engine to pull them.

I would like one of these

 But not the auto.   

Bill

A LEGACY SCALE NYC HUDSON THAT CAN NAVIGATE 036 CURVES AND ANOTHER RUN OF THE LIONMASTER T1 !!!!

I saw 1385's drivers during a Shop Tour at Strasburg last Tuesday. RGS 4-6-0 No. 20 is coming along, too.

Scale Diesels

CSX and Seaboard System B36-7's

Florida Northern and Florida Central CF7's 

Freight Cars

 89 foot flatcars 

SCALE Diesel Demonstrators:

ALCo:

FA-2 A-B-B-A

Rs11

FM:

H-16-44

EMD:

F3 A-B-B-A

F7 A-B-B-A

SD60

SD80

PRR:

Gp9 & Gp9B

Hiawatha Hudson, Santa Fe Blue goose

Howard

you mean these?

santa fe f3

reissue these with station sounds.

the scout

Scale Dreyfuss Hudson

Engine -specific ERR Railsounds upgrade

Robust smoke units

A N&W 0-8-0 S1a (please do the tender right this time!). 

Gilly

MOW equipment:

Something similar to the MTH UP Weed Sprayer

UP Harsco TRT-909 (Track Renewal Train) This is an all in one unit that moves along the tracks and replaces old rail road ties with new ones. Would be great to see some highly detailed die-cast MOW pieces. 

The Ethanol tank train set had accelerometers associated with sound boards in 2 of the tanks with wheel, brake, track squealing sounds. How great would it be to have more cars like this or better still Boards that could be used to upgrade existing cars and have them set up to be adapted to the Legacy system. 

This is the point where I chime in with my yearly request for a scale GE-44 Ton, but since everyone else will now be making them, I'm happy!  The only thing I can even think of is the NYO&W Mountaineer, which will never happen!

I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that product announcements for 2015 are already well-underway.  But Lionel's track record for product delivery is nowhere near the science that you're inferring.  There just seem to be far to many factors in the overseas Asian labor market right now that are beyond the control of any of the big name toy train importers to give us any comfort level that products will be delivered on time.

With Lionel's Mike R in his new role, I'd say Lionel probably has the best chance in years to make a majority of the product delivery ETA's.  So we'll all be watching closely to compare 2014 product deliveries with those over the past several years.  But even Mike is just one guy, and so much goes on overseas that happens behind lots of smoke and mirrors.  

David

Long Island motive power, steam and diesel.

Andy

A remake of the B&O light Mikado since I cant seem to find one used for a fair price, well I cant really seem to find one at all. Maybe some more B&O I-12 caboose since I play **** getting them for under a $100 now.

KCS F7 ABA set

C&O F7 ABA set

A LionChief Plus semi-scale Challenger with Whistle-Steam.

A LionChief Plus "Baby Berk" with Whistle-Steam.

More detailed diesels with LionChief Plus:   Perhaps a GP 35?