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Regards,
Swafford
paigetrain posted:
cecx 1919
What is the story behind this unit?
BigRail posted:Get those couplers to stay closed while pulling me across the room.
Positive train control so my engines don't hit each other when I'm not looking.
How about super elevated fastrack curves.
BigRail
I'm guessing you run your trains fast? So i'm not alone.
Soo Line ACF Center Flow 4650 Cubic Foot Capacity 3-bay covered hoppers. This specific covered hopper.
With authentic 3M Scotchlite retro-reflective decals for all of the yellow and green graphics.
SOO 74212
Andrew
I'm thinking Lionel should start making more models of popular surviving steam and or diesel locomotives that are restored and or functional, and when they do. They make sure they record the correct whistle and bell sounds for those locomotives. I really want them to do an SP&S 700. And more west coast railroad steam locomotives and color schemes.
The SCL Family Lines ACF Center Flow, 5250 Cu Ft, 4-bay covered hopper still has not been produced.
Andrew
I'd like to see more steam switchers. Maybe a U.S Army 0-6-0. Heck, Lionel made models of a shoreline. Maybe they can do M&E or Raritan River. I doubt it though. Maybe an LV or CNJ steamer. Never really see LV steam engines except for that camelback they did. At least Weaver made their Black Diamond set.
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Scale Steam: N&W Class A (enough with the Lionmaster), 4-8-2's lettered for southeastern and midwestern roads.
Scale Diesels: E Units, F Units, how about some demonstrator unit F7's?
Scale Passenger: Scale sized L&N "Pan American" or Southern "Tennessean" 21" passenger cars, more head end cars such as baggage, RPO, mail storage cars
Scale Freight: More 8,000 or 10,000 gallon tank cars, 55 or 70 ton hoppers, wood sided, steam era cabeese
Vision Line: Vision Line Dining Car, smaller switch engines such as 0-8-0's, Dynamometer Cars (from a former post, essentially they are research and test cars for a railroads new locomotives)
Hi Folks,
I'm a long time reader but first time poster. This forum is a great source of information with interesting discussions and opinions. I'm stepping out of the sidelines here with my first post.
Vision Line (All die-cast and/or aluminum): Amtrak Acela, UAC turbo train, UP GE steam turbine (1939), Amtrak RTL turboliner, Krauss-Maffei ML-4000 D&RGW (4001-4003 Cab unit lashup)
Scale Diesel/Electric (All die-cast): Great Northern Y-1 electric, Great Northern W-1 electric, New Haven EP-5, SD-45
Scale Steam: New York Ontario & Western Mountaineer, C&O class M-1 steam turbine
Scale Freight: NYC Pacemaker set with various door/paint schemes and accurate scale Pacemaker caboose
Scale Passenger: NYO&W Mountaineer, PC Metroliner
Accessories: Die-cast trackside signals, bridges and grade crossings.
Track: Super-0 with wide-radius curves and switches
What If? (the off the wall category): Scale FEC Seven Mile Bridge (Knights Key Pigeon Key Moser Channel Pacet Channel Bridge) 
Regards
Scale Steam: New York Ontario & Western Mountaineer is just about the only item I would go for broke getting. I've got too much already but the Mountaineer is my favorite engine.
Track: I would also like to see Fastrack switch that would bring the tracks in a siding closer together. (something like a #6 switch)
Scale Diesel/Electric Milwaukee Road Boxcabs, Penn Central GG1 (with the big PC logo), Jersey Central Double ended Baldwin Diesel?, NJTransit Electrics
Scale Steam C&O L1, Commodore Vanderbilt, N&W Jawn Henry
Scale Passenger Scale length AmFleet, Viewliners, Viewliner Observation, Metroliners, NJ Transit Bombardier? Gallery Cars and current single level equipment, Washington DC Metro, NJ PATH Trains, MR Hiawatha. ALL SCALE LENGTH AND CLOSE COUPLING.
Scale RINGLING Bros Circus train older and current version
Accessories BRING BACK THE TUGBOATS! NY CENTRAL ETC.
Options to be able to make cars ride lower on trucks if you have wider curves. New stuff looks great but still seems to ride high on the trucks
Traindiesel posted:My usual list, all scale, Locomotives with Legacy:
Scale Diesel/Electric:
Amtrak E60
Amtrak Acela
Amtrak Cities Sprinter ACS-64
Metroliners: PRR, Penn Central, Amtrak
Rail Diesel Cars (RDC) scale sets (any and all roads)
FP45: Santa Fe, Amtrak
Scale Passenger (21" Scale):
Amfleet
Amtrak Viewliner Sleeper & Diner
Times 2!!!
Lionmaster Legacy J and Daylight GS-4 with matching 15" plastic passenger cars, Lionmaster Legacy NYC Hudson, and more Neil Young-type Legacy F-3 sets in GN Empire Builder, IC City of New Orleans, Mil Rd Hiawatha, etc. Also, a LionChief Plus GG-1 would be a natural.
Here's an easy one.
CN scale auto rack in yellow with white CN logo with a 690xxx series number. Tooling is already to go just grab a can of paint!
Here's a tough one:
TGV. Several paint schemes available to keep reissuing to earn the money back on tooling.
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700 & Frisco 1522.
Peter Araujo posted:Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700 & Frisco 1522.
Amen on Frisco 1522
Joe Congemi posted:Peter Araujo posted:Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700 & Frisco 1522.
Amen on Frisco 1522
I fired up 1522 with my dad when I was a little kid... I would buy 1522 in a heartbeat!!!
I'd like to see more shortlines. R&N was a great start. Maybe NYSW, D&L, dare I say Raritan River...
2 Rail engines.
I would be interested in a reissue of the Boston and Maine Mogul. Legacy equipped with a different cab number.
Señor J. posted:As much as I love my Lionel and MTH O-Scale trains, I've also developed a love for vintage Transformers (1984-86). As a result, many of the near-scale (1/43) vehicles I bought for my layout resemble cars and trucks from my childhood -- many of them being Autobots and Stunticons.
That being said, what I want is a real-world counterpart to Decepticon locomotive Astrotrain: a JNR D62 (a 2-8-4 Berkshire type in North America) steam locomotive.
While I don't expect to see this engine in "FedEx Purple" or with Space Shuttle engines behind the cab anytime soon, I'd still want to have this locomotive pulling my American style rolling stock... perhaps making off with a load of tank cars, or a gondolas loaded with Energon cubes. So far, the closest thing I've seen to a D62 is the Polar Express locomotive. All it really needs is some boiler deflectors at the front and it'd make an excellent substitute. I will say that while an authentic tender is nice, I'd personally prefer a more aerodynamic tender (like the Polar Express's) -- whether it had 4 axles or 6.
I'd also like to see Lionel or MTH build an O-Scale version of the Soul Train.
The style of the train seemed to change slightly over the years; this was the version that adorned the back wall of the studio/set for most of the show's run. On a Soul Train record album, the version printed on the record's decal most resembled a Greenbrier style 4-8-4, so I say Lionel should start there and work backwards. Considering that I've had the opportunity to buy "barbecue" and "bacon" flavored smoke for my locomotives (and Southern Rwy. caboose), I'm sure it should be no trouble to provide a pint of orange or pink colored smoke for this locomotive. With any luck, it should a smooth, sweet smell (mesquite? "sweet Italian sausage"?) when used. If a set of passenger cars is made to go with the Soul Train, at least one of them should have flashing lights in the interior, like a club car with a swinging dance party. I'd also like to have a car with a SD Card based MP3 player. (It would be best if the speakers are equipped in the same car, but there have been external "sound cars" before...) The collector/user would load the SD card into his phone or computer, drag and drop their music on the card, then install the card back in the train car. Then you have the hippest party on wheels.
Even the Soul Train theme song, "The Sound of Philadelphia", sounds like it belongs on a Passenger car. Maybe another car could be named after Don Cornelius.
(I've tried pitching this idea to both Lionel and MTH. I wish someone would take it up...)
In addition to being my favorite rail-based Autobot, this is also the Nozomi version of the 500 Series Shinkansen (Bullet Train). Unless it's been beaten recently, this is one of the fastest bullet trains in Japan. While it sounds like I'm asking for the world (literally), this train has been made in O-Scale. (The problem is, the retail price is about the same as a small used car!) It should also be no surprise that I'd like to run the TGV (the silver and blue Atlantique, or in its vintage orange) on Lionel tracks.
I'd like to own at least one Southern Railway autorack carrier. The one I have pictured is green, but there is also a brown version (with a "green light" O in "SOUTHERN"), and the brown post-merger version ("SOUTHERN" spread over 3 center-top panels, built over a basic TTX/Trailer-Train frame)I don't have anything from Frisco yet, so why not a Frisco autorack? I've seen (modern) enclosed ones in red (vermillion and 'Tuscan red') and pale yellow (not unlike the FEC autorack in the above picture), and also a pale yellow non-enclosed (read: vintage) version.
Most importantly (since I live right next to a now-Norfolk Southern railway yard) I MUST have a Southern waffle-sided boxcar. There are a few in the 52XXXX series, but most of the ones I saw (before the majority of passing freight became coal hoppers and trailers/containers on flat cars) were 53XXXX series.
I also miss seeing rolling stock in Illinois Central Gulf's colors. While my favorites were the orange versions (excluding the diesels), I'd be okay with the dull gray with white print IC colors (from the late 1980s to CN takeover) too.
I hope my wants haven't drowned out the page. Let me know if some of my requests match your own.
-- Señor J.
After all these years I thought was the only one to noticed the soultrain locomotive.Was base on a real world steam locomotive.Astrotrain is another favorite of mine.Although at first I mistook astrotrain for a britsh or french type locomotive.
FLEXI-VANS!
They were a great idea and several forward thinking railroads carried them, lead by the New York Central:
Flexi-Vans were an efficient, low profile (single stack) container on flat car (COFC) system designed for both highway and rail. Unlike today's containers, Flexi-Vans required only a dedicated tractor for loading/unloading and "highway bogie" wheelsets in order to make the transition from rail to trail and vice versa - yet maintaining a specialized tractor and an adequate number of wheelsets at terminals was considered onerous and was an excuse to discontinue them. Today, not only are fleets of entire flatbed trailers required to handle containers at each terminal but specialized tractors and/or cranes are, too. The trailer on flat car (TOFC) system that won the competition and survives to this day requires only a circus ramp as opposed to needing a paved staging area but it also requires dedicated equipment and is subject to significantly more wind resistance or "drag" resulting from their high profile design and the gap between trailer and flat car.
My introduction to the Flexi-Van system was from the vantage point of my 1966-67 dorm room which overlooked the NYC Beacon Park Yard and Flexi-Van terminal. Those guys had the system down pat and handled entire trainloads of containers in no time flat. Later, I rode behind Flexi-Vans aboard the Illinois Central's luxurious Hawkeye between Sioux City and Chicago. Here's how the system worked:
Flexi-Van equipment is available in HO in a variety of roadnames and I own one, the IC version, to use as the example for my planned bashing of two Bachmann O Gauge skeleton cars to form one Flexi-Van car. The Bachmann cars are beautiful diecast models and I hate to wreck them in order to create a car that one of our usual-suspect manufacturers should be making. Hey, Lionel, go for it!
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All of you have some great Ideas !
I would like to see a LION CHIEF PLUS 2-6-6-2 mallet in NYC, NKP & Milwaukee Road with NO Shroud !
A rerun of the LION CHIEF PLUS NYC HUDSON in a new engine number . I missed the first batch .
A POLAR EXPRESS in LION CHIEF PLUS . A BLANK BLACK BERKSHIRE with decals for NKP, Pere Marqutte, & NYC in LION CHIEF PLUS !
A LION CHIEF PLUS PACIFIC IN FROSTY THE SNOW MAN THEME !!!!!!!!!
A set of Red, Blue, green, orange, yellow & white metallic reefer cars To go with the Frosty, Toymaker & the new Christmas Lion Chief plus Pacific !
That's it for now
The next Canadian National auto carrier scheme could be this.
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OK, I'll bite; How about a CORRECT Union Pacific FEF-3 4-8-4 #838, with the as previously advertised, Sellers Exhaust Steam Feedwater Heating System!
Here is another variation of the Canadian National or CN paint scheme for the Auto Rack on 89' Flat Car.
Someone applied a red CN logo on a galvanized steel panel with no perforations.
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I'd like to see another run of SD40's since Lionel did such a fantastic job on the 1st run.
seaboardm2 posted:Señor J. posted:As much as I love my Lionel and MTH O-Scale trains, I've also developed a love for vintage Transformers (1984-86). As a result, many of the near-scale (1/43) vehicles I bought for my layout resemble cars and trucks from my childhood -- many of them being Autobots and Stunticons.
That being said, what I want is a real-world counterpart to Decepticon locomotive Astrotrain: a JNR D62 (a 2-8-4 Berkshire type in North America) steam locomotive.
While I don't expect to see this engine in "FedEx Purple" or with Space Shuttle engines behind the cab anytime soon, I'd still want to have this locomotive pulling my American style rolling stock... perhaps making off with a load of tank cars, or a gondolas loaded with Energon cubes. So far, the closest thing I've seen to a D62 is the Polar Express locomotive. All it really needs is some boiler deflectors at the front and it'd make an excellent substitute. I will say that while an authentic tender is nice, I'd personally prefer a more aerodynamic tender (like the Polar Express's) -- whether it had 4 axles or 6.
I'd also like to see Lionel or MTH build an O-Scale version of the Soul Train.
The style of the train seemed to change slightly over the years; this was the version that adorned the back wall of the studio/set for most of the show's run. On a Soul Train record album, the version printed on the record's decal most resembled a Greenbrier style 4-8-4, so I say Lionel should start there and work backwards. Considering that I've had the opportunity to buy "barbecue" and "bacon" flavored smoke for my locomotives (and Southern Rwy. caboose), I'm sure it should be no trouble to provide a pint of orange or pink colored smoke for this locomotive. With any luck, it should a smooth, sweet smell (mesquite? "sweet Italian sausage"?) when used. If a set of passenger cars is made to go with the Soul Train, at least one of them should have flashing lights in the interior, like a club car with a swinging dance party. I'd also like to have a car with a SD Card based MP3 player. (It would be best if the speakers are equipped in the same car, but there have been external "sound cars" before...) The collector/user would load the SD card into his phone or computer, drag and drop their music on the card, then install the card back in the train car. Then you have the hippest party on wheels.
Even the Soul Train theme song, "The Sound of Philadelphia", sounds like it belongs on a Passenger car. Maybe another car could be named after Don Cornelius.
(I've tried pitching this idea to both Lionel and MTH. I wish someone would take it up...)
In addition to being my favorite rail-based Autobot, this is also the Nozomi version of the 500 Series Shinkansen (Bullet Train). Unless it's been beaten recently, this is one of the fastest bullet trains in Japan. While it sounds like I'm asking for the world (literally), this train has been made in O-Scale. (The problem is, the retail price is about the same as a small used car!) It should also be no surprise that I'd like to run the TGV (the silver and blue Atlantique, or in its vintage orange) on Lionel tracks.
I hope my wants haven't drowned out the page. Let me know if some of my requests match your own.
-- Señor J.After all these years I thought was the only one to noticed the soultrain locomotive.Was base on a real world steam locomotive.Astrotrain is another favorite of mine.Although at first I mistook astrotrain for a britsh or french type locomotive.
It took me a good while to find a real-world base for the Soul Train. (If MTH can do the Coors 'Silver Bullet', why shouldn't someone make the Soul Train?)
Astrotrain was more of a challenge -- someone once guessed the wrong locomotive; the wheel arrangement didn't match up, plus JNR scrapped all 20 D-62 engines -- numbered "D 62 1" to "D 62 20". If Astrotrain were made, I'd want him to have the number "D 6248". (In Japan, Astrotrain's toy had the serial number '48' out of 49 Transformers sold in 1985.)
I do like the Reading & Northern Lionchief plus. I'd like to see the 425 R&N in scale size and with better audio, seems like the audio for the Lionchief sounds a bit like chipmunks?
How about a B&M FT? Not with the blue paint, I'm not sure if any got the McGinnus scheme. LC Plus GP7 or RS3 in New England or Canadian paint schemes.
