Lionel Future Years: What Do You Want?

The Frisco Firefly with Legacy.

 

Smaller legacy steam!!!! And just new road names

 

GTW second-hand Gunderson 3-unit drawbar attached Double-Stack Car.

 

Traditional O gauge version of the Gunderson MAXI-STACK

Burlington Northern BN America 5-unit MAXI-Stack intermodal well car in one box.

 

Frisco 4-8-4 Steam Engine!

       
       

I agree. Lionel needs to make more Frisco items.

Lionel should shake ol Mike from MTH and put out a single command control system that will run both DCS and TMCC/Legacy locomotives. Would take Mike and Lionel to share their proprietary functions. Should also make the info public domain so some open source work could be done to further integrate into dispatching and train control systems.

 

Jim Waterman

 

Hi GUYZ,

  As of right now there is 7 pages here on the forum of things that will be sent to Lionel.  Is anyone keeping a list?  If so How many things are on the list for Lionel?  Just curious.

This is a new Kansas City Auto Rack on a TTGX TTX flat car that is close to the Lionel model. The corrugated screens are redesigned. It was built by Trinity railcar.

 

 

 

 

Andrew

 

There is another fresh Kansas City Southern Auto Rack on a TTGX TTX flat car. It is in a completely different number series.

TTGX 705044

 

Why bother?  By now it is clear: the list would simply be "every locomotive and bit of rolling stock ever made." Lionel probably figured out years ago that someone, somewhere, wants a model of every this or that that ever rode the rails.  What helps them is information on those items enough people want.  Here, these is still some homework to do.  maybe Lionel will read this list (likely) and do that homework (I don't think so).

 

The thread is probably meaningful because no doubt LIonel has been/will read it.  A company with larger resources and staff than Lionel would likely assign some poor soul (this is what interns are for) to go through the whole thread and make up a list of all requests, then put this in a database and count/sort/do statistical analysis to determine what was most requested, etc.  Someone like google would no doubt have group or automatic agent software even that would analyze the text to associate that database with "power words" to find nuggets of information like: "While more people requested the Lackamoola Busted Gut Flyer than any other loco we currently don't make, those requesting the third most popular loco, the Elextrolux Tracksucker Express, used an average of three power words of phrase like "always wanted" or "have to have."  

 

But its enough for me to know that without a doubt Mike R and/or Jon Z probably paid attention to it.

As Lion Chief and Lion Chief Plus engines get more popular. Request Lionel develop a programmable Multi-engine/Frequency controller so multiple types of LC/LC+ engines can be controlled from a single controller.

For 2015, I would wish for Lionel to throw away the mold they have used for decades to produce EMD F3B units with 4 portholes instead of the proper 6.

"As Lion Chief and Lion Chief Plus engines get more popular. Request Lionel develop a programmable Multi-engine/Frequency controller so multiple types of LC/LC+ engines can be controlled from a single controller."

 

i think they have the right strategy as is.  i would not want them combined.

KCS GP30 would be great!

 

Regards,

Swafford

2nd Production run on the KCS SD70ACe's

 

Regards,

Swafford

KCS SD70ACe's in gray would be nice too!

 

Regards,

Swafford

 

 

+3

 

Same here

also the 20th century Limited passenger set

4 pack

2 pack

and station sounds diner car

Please....an FL-9 that we can afford......

Well, not having a life, I counted 79 separate requests (without duplication) on the first page of this thread alone.  The OP had 25 items on his wish list alone.  And the requests are all over the map.

 

Assuming a similar quantity on the other six pages, that's going to be over 500 things (+/- 10% by my guess) on this want here list to Lionel.  Does anybody seriously think Lionel personnel are going to plow through a list that long?

 

Seems like a somewhat unmanageable list to Santa...

 

Rusty

If only they gave you a free model for suggesting it...... that would be nice.

Would like to see more products made here in the USofA.

I'm still waiting for the Playboy Pinup Passenger Train with a William Jefferson Clinton observation car.

But if anyone ever makes one it'll most likely come from MTH.

The Norfolk & Western collectors and operators want a Thrall Car 86' High-Cube Boxcar built in the 1960's.

 

Not holding my breath for any new locomotives, but I drove to see some EMD FP9s.

I will buy anything that says White Pass or Santa Fe on it. But since Santa Fe seems to be so well covered... How about a White Pass GE shovel nose diesel, or  the White Pass #73 Mikado. How about a White Pass gondola or even better yet White Pass passenger cars. I know its narrow gauge but if the G gaugers can get it then why can't we? MTH has a White Pass heavy duty snow plow shipping in september. And they delivered a nice White Pass tank car 2 years ago. Is it really that expensive to pump out a little rolling stock from smaller road names?

The Super O Solid Rails on the Fast Track or FasTrak tie and ballast base.

 

 

Block Signals or Target Signals or dwarf signals that snap connect into sections of FasTrak that have the ballast extend out from the track, and have connection slots in the plastic ballast. The section of track has the electrical and electronics built in to activate the signals when the track are occupied. The ballast from the tracks extends out to the base of the signals on real track so they can do it on FasTrak.

 

Andrew

A new RailScope camera & RailSounds microphone.

 

The video-audio output would be sent to a tablet like the iPad.

 

 

A Denver & Rio Grande Class K-63 Mikado.  This is one serious locomotive.  For a picture, see page 54 of Rio Grande Steam Locomotives Standard Gauge by Donald Heimburger.  There were three of these.  All were former Denver and Salt Lake engines.

Not a lot of roads bought FP9's...

EMD: C&NW, NdeM, Saudi Govenrment Railways

 

GMD: CN, CP.

 

Rusty

Am I the only guy that still wants a McKeen car?   Since MTH apparently didn't have enough pre-orders to justify the cost of the mold dies for the one in their 2011 Vol II catalog, It probably won't ever be built.  I even offered to buy their pre-production prototype (if there was one) but they weren't interested.  

 

There is something intriguing about an air-start diesel that is direct-reversing after shifting the cam-shaft. Older wooden seiners on the West Coast often used that type of diesel engine too; made for exciting mooring at the dock when it failed to go into reverse or ran out of air.

How about modern day passenger trains!

 

 

DD35A............................

Had a few ideas the other day.

The UP Cancer Unit - ES44AC #7400

UP ES44AC #7964 - The 5000th ES44AC for Union Pacific

 

There are also a lot of rail lines out there today using concrete ties. Maybe some new Fastrack?

And speaking of Fastrack, in the Fall 2013 catalog, Lionel announced the weathered UP #9000 and Sharknose diesels. Maybe some weatherized Fastrack as well?

New York City Subways

More Alco locomotives like a HH660, RS27 or RS32.

I would like a three way switch for fasttrack.And a conrail mp15dc switcher with legacy. That would make me happy!!!

Was the list sent?  Otherwise I would re-title it for 2016.