Lionel Pacemaker Set

It is very sharp!

Peter

And very imaginative! Is this loco destined for freight or passenger service?

I was considering this set (engine+passenger cars), but wanted to see the paint colors in person and not rely simply on a catalog photo. It DOES look nice. wow.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

And very imaginative! Is this loco destined for freight or passenger service?

It is a fantasy, so use it for what ever you want. The locomotive model itself was originally a K Line model of the B&A 4-8-2, thus primarily a freight locomotive.

This is Lionel's L2a Mohawk. The K-line B&A engine was the Lima A1 2-8-4. Both were freight engines, but this IS a a fantasy scheme, so use it however you please,

Wonder how many will swear up and down they got the red wrong!….🤣🤣🤣

Pat

Interesting, I just posted just over there about the catalog art in comparison to this and the 3001 2-10-10-2 Santa Fe. What I do find incredible interesting is that my picture the red doesn't look as dark as Sean's picture of it. Odd.

Dave,

It's not odd at all.  Unfortunately it's because of the way digital cameras work, whether they're in your phone or in the form of an old fashioned point-and-shoot.  Exposure settings can also be different, even between the same brands of camera/phone, and as such affect color as well.  They shouldn't but they do.

Color can be very different between the various brands of digital cameras, and their settings.  It was less so with film but we've since outgrown that, sometimes to our disadvantage.

Mike

@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:

Dave,

It's not odd at all.  Unfortunately it's because of the way digital cameras work, whether they're in your phone or in the form of an old fashioned point-and-shoot.  Exposure settings can also be different, even between the same brands of camera/phone, and as such affect color as well.  They shouldn't but they do.

Color can be very different between the various brands of digital cameras, and their settings.  It was less so with film but we've since outgrown that, sometimes to our disadvantage.

Mike

Well, one thing is certain, the smoke box on the 3001 is white silver when it should be graphite(at least that is what color it looks like in the catalog art). Thanks for the info though Mike.

The colors cannot be wrong as there is nothing to base against, there is no prototype.  Whatever it is, it is, period.

Personally, I'd never have it, but if you like it, buy one and enjoy it.

@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

Interesting, I just posted just over there about the catalog art in comparison to this and the 3001 2-10-10-2 Santa Fe. What I do find incredible interesting is that my picture the red doesn't look as dark as Sean's picture of it. Odd.

Not sure, but I found the red, kind of the perfect NYC Pacemaker shade.  If the production models look like this one I will be thrilled!  Don't care it is a fantasy train.  Pulling all those boxcars, it is going to look fantastic!

Thank you for posting . I would like to see Lionel produce more scale sized “fantasy” or non-prototypical paint schemes .

I think this is a homerun. Too big for my non/semi-scale layout, but if this is successful, perhaps it will get made in semi-scale with LC+2. I'd be a buyer of one as I have a string of scarlet and gray Pacemaker freight cars right now behind an all-black semi-scale Hudson.