Lionel Future Years: What Do You Want?

I would like to see a Peanuts 50th Anniversary Christmas car.

 

rat

Legacy Upgrade Kits.

More rolling stock with sound and perhaps electrocouplers.

Alco C430 in NYC paint

Erie Lackawanna Tug

Flexi-Van Flats

Bring back the Mainline signals

Integrated FasTrack signals

I would like to see another offering in the Heritage Series.

Norfolk Southern Heritage 3 Bay Hoppers in plastic instead of die-cast

 

CP Rail PS 1 boxcars in red, silver, blue, green, black, yellow

 

Maine Central PS 1 boxcars

 

Central Vermont PS 1 Boxcar

 

Scale Modern Diesel that run on 0-36 curves

 

Lionmaster Diesels and Steam Engines

 

MBTA GP40

 

 

 

In the all-new category ...

 

1. Legacy PRR Decapod (as previously suggested).

2. In American Flyer, a Legacy scale detailed NYC J3a.

 

From much existing tooling ...

 

1. A full-featured Legacy or VL rerun of the scale Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson with the correct colors, drivers, etc. (All of the 'under the hood stuff' for this has already been done for the recent VL J1e).

2. Legacy upgrade kits.

 

Bob

This list is gonna need a lot of electrons(or trees.)  The conensus seems to be there's no consensus.

 

A mile long laundry list will probably go nowhere fast.

 

Rusty

I agree with you Rusty.  Makes it harder for Lionel to get a feel on what is cost effective or marketable to make and sell.

 

What this list tells me is that the "market" of people on this forum knows what IS and HAS ALREADY BEEN available.   They already have a version of what's been offered with some exceptions of what someone might have missed out on.

 

Personally I'm waiting for what I want....until it's offered I'm ok with what I have.

 

 

 

A DD35B in either powered or non powered.

1. McKeen Motorcar & Trailer O scale, tinplate, or both

 

2. 45-50 ton center cab diesel switcher with siderods

 

3. A late 1880's to 1900 vintage 4-6-0 high wheeled passenger loco' perhaps a 

camelback version

 

4. Steam locomotive cab/crew figures that wave their arms

 

Eric

TCA, LCCA

How about a russian decapod. Roadnames should include Frisco 1630 (the out at the Illinois Railway Museum), Santa Fe, Western Maryland, and a few other roads that had them.

A far as Lionel can tell, each one of these requests would be bought by exactly one person.

 

Hard to justify a re-run or new tooling based on THAT!

If there is to be a list of product that we modelers would like to purchase if made my first choice would be in the Lionmaster line would be a New York Central 4-8-4. The scale size model is rather pricy and requires at least 060 curves on Fast Track although many locomotives that are advertised as minimum curve of 060 or 054 do operate fine on 048 curves. I own 3 Lionmaster steam locomotives and they all operate nicely and pull lots of freight or passenger cars with ease.

Or how about a Russian TE10 diesel? That would be the ultimate test of a smoke unit. 

The only common denominators I can see so far are SF war bonnet F3/F7's, CV Hudson's, and Legacy upgrade kits. 

The rest is pretty much all over the galaxy.

As was said there is not much here for Lionel to take to the bank.

just gotta get my nickels worth in for a VL Allegheny!

 

Rod

Once again I ask Lionel for a FM 5-axle C-Liner. Might as well ask for Legacy too.

Let MTH make the Russian TE10 then. Personally I don't think Lionel will ever make a European train ever.

Station Sound Cars for all of the 18" sets made in the last 3 - 4 years. Backshop with up to date sound technology & heavier metal with glowing fireplace like was shown in the original & plexiglass roof so machinery is more visible. Vision Line Allegheny.

More LionChief Plus; perhaps with the ability to reprogram to any of the LionChief handhelds, as should be possible with 2.4 GHz DSS radios, at least in theory.

 

More obscure New York Central and New Haven rolling stock and locos from various eras.

 

More operating accessories and a continuation of the Postwar Celebration Series, either with LionChief capabilities or Legacy/Legacy "Lite."

Illinois Central GP9

 

Illinois Central SD40 in "Death Star" paint scheme.

 

Web interface on Wifi module, so you could access it from PC, Mac, Linux, iPad, Android.

 

Actually Lionel did in fact make a European train; the Hall-Class 2-6-0 & coaches for the Hogwarts Express from the Harry Potter movie, and the same train redecorated as the Great Western and the Shakespeare Express.  I think they even did it in a couple of X - mas themed sets as well.

Besides the Hogwarts Express. Still I don't think they will make any other european trains at all. MTH holds that market here in the US for European O-Gauge.

actually they did...it was a BR3? BR30? about 20 years ago.

 

rat

fred flintstone flatcar......-jim

Really!! That is something that should be in the RTR catalog. 

• LionMaster steam
• Legacy Alco RS-11 Demonstrators(two power, one dummy)
• Modern scale diesel(ES44) with Legacy in Lionel livery
• all new scale rolling stock
• new intermodal items
• new operating accessories
• Eastern States Farmers Exchange boxcars

Bring back the Postwar Celebration Series, and/or the Conventional Classics. Or make one series of reissues in both Legacy, and conventional versions.

 

For scale steam, the PRR S-1 Duplex in the unskirted version, or the T-1 in the unsirted version with the portholes. VL Allegheny in C&O, and Virginian, instead of making coal hoppers for them make a mixed freight set. Give them the same features as the Big Boy, and the idea someone mentioned earlier of a waving engineer sounds pretty cool.

 

Modern Diesels. The AC4400CW.

 

Accessoies. Reissue all the classics. Charlie Nassau mentioned they were making and accessories catalog in 2015, so I don't know if they are in the works already. I think a cool idea to make a version of the sawmill like they have now and make it with a loader like the AF version, Kind of "mash" the two together.

 

Bill

 

 

Here we go. I would be in for the Timken engine and the following Northern pacific engines... W-3, F-3, Z-3 or 4, Z-5 Yellowstone, A-4 Northern, Q-(1-5) pacific, and the glory of all glory the Z-8 challenger....

Oh and the coal tipple as an operating accessory...

 

Hey how did that C&O GW get in there... well a legacy version would be cool...

 

 

More legacy NYC steam any of them be good here ..

J Daddy I totallty agree with you on the NP steam engines. I really would like to see Lionel make a NP A-3 class northern in NP and SP&S 700. I would probably get SP&S 700.

I personally would like to see some 21 inch passenger car offerings, UP to be specific. I would assume that Lionel still has the old K-line tooling?

I'd also like to see Lionel produce an Emily for their Thomas Line....and while they have the molds, make a Lionchief Plus Sterling Single Passenger set!

I'd like to see the vision line expand. I love the high-end products, albeit unaffordable, but wouldn't mind seeing some of the newer hybrid products, and/or Nextfuel/hydrogen locos.

I think so. That would be pretty **** cool if you ask. I would really get a set of the 50th anniversary cars if they were reissued in the 21 inch cars. 

"I would assume that Lionel still has the old K-line tooling?"

 

I'm afraid they don't.  They leased it.  It belongs to Sanda Kan who are owned by the same investors who own Bachmann. Sanda Kan is not producing anything for Lionel

or other non-Williams, non-Bachmann vendors at last reports on the subject.  It's one reason Atlas, Lionel and others had to find other manufacturers during the last few years.

Mike that would be pretty cool. Don't forget about the GP-40 painted in black.

And what is so frustrating is the tooling for some of they engines they already have! Just a few tweaks here and there, and they could easily release these...

The SP&S is another beautiful engine, maybe some day.

 

 

Man if Lionel did the right number for the GS-4 daylight in 2007. What I mean by right is the only surviving GS-4 left on this planet which is 4449. That would be one of the things I would be doing with SP&S 700 and 4449 is double heading them. 

I agree, Andrew.

 

I've got the Bombardier K-Line cars in VRE, Cal Train, and Metrolink.  I have the matching F59PH for the VRE and Metrolink cars and an F40PH for the Cal Train cars.

Tim, you and me both...