Lionel Standard O

Yes the Standard "O" stuff is pretty much the scale stuff. And at the present time everything is scheduled to be released this year, some of the items in the Signature Vol. 1 catalog were released even before the catalog was released. Lionel has their shipping schedule on-line and it is under the Products listing and then under the Brochures & Catalogs listing, at times Lionel updates the list and sometimes I have noticed it being updated daily. It was just updated on 5-2 I put a link to it below

http://www.lionel.com/Products/ShippingSchedule/#

Paul

Lionel's schedule is pretty fluid - changing according to factory capacity/production. There have been some instances where I've waited almost a year-and-a-half for some items. 

Thanks Paul and Dave for your answers and comments, that definitely gives me something to go on.  Paul thank you for the link, I'm going to move that into my favorites so I can check it often.  Now all I have to do is figure out what I want.

Cheers,

Keep in mind, although the dimentions are scale, many of the paint schemes are NOT prototypical. You will have to do your own research on the cars and decide as to how much accuracy you want to have.

Yeah like the ZW-L!!

PS Dave.. love your little layout in the MobileMe Gallery. I also collect NY Central.

Thanks gentlemen for your replies.  I know what you mean about the paint schemes, if memory servers me correctly, I see where Lionel is coming out with the Baldwin Sharks in the Daylight scheme, the SP never had any of those units, at least not to my knowledge.  I also got a charge out of the new 0-8-0 set they are coming out with that has a vanderbuilt tender behind it also in the Daylight scheme.  However, since it is SP, I will definitely put my order in for one just to display it

Cheers.