Locomotives & Cars That Lionel Should Make

Scale rolling stock without the "Built by Lionel" data on the car sides would be appreciated.

Bob

I don't want much....

U.S. Army Transportation Corp. 2-8-0

ATSF 5000 Madame Queen (Vision Line please)

SP AC-? Cab Forward with Vanderbilt Tender (Vision Line please)

A UP or ATSF Wood Side Caboose similar to this one with the crew door mid car..

I have several of the brass Williams repro 700 cars.  They cannot hold a candle to the originals.

i too have a "thing" for the Baldwin three- cylinder 60000.  Mine is indeed purple, with custom decals.  I have posted a photo, but every time I have done so, the thread stops cold.  I won't do that here.

C-Liner

The Reading & Northern 425 and AMTRAK diesels, as others have mentioned.

It would be a good one for sure:

Bob

Stuff with lower prices?

So Long as the "I wish they made it" threads keep popping up....I'll keep wishing....

Union Pacific 4-6-2 (Non-Generic/USRA repaint please) Two tone Grey with white/silver striping.  And a matching heavyweight set (should be easy with Blue Comet/Alton/Southern tooling/molds available)

(Added bonus: If he prefers TT Grey w/yello Lee would only have to re-paint the striping )

I really like the Lionel Shay and I would like to see them make a Climax or a Heisler steam engine. You can get a lot of action in a lumber railroad

Lionel made a Heisler several years ago, so one might think it's about time to reissue it with Legacy. It was a very nice model - I considered buying one several times but I don't have room for a logging loop on my layout so never could quite justify the purchase. 

MTH has made the Climax.

There could be THREE models of Reading & Northern 425, as follows:

(1) High headlight, as laz57 posted

(2) High headlight with LOUISIANA EASTERN script lettering. The R&N's "Four-and-a-Quarter" is the largest survivor of Paulsen Spence's roster. There are only two others: 4-4-0 #98 on the Wilmington & Western and a modern 4-4-0 with Walschaert valve gear on the Stone Mountain Scenis Railroad in Georgia. The rest were scrapped after Mr. Spence died.

(3) Reading-style headlight, slightly above center. It is remarkable how different she looks.  Local railfans kidded Reading Steam Guru by saying the "4" on her number plate was too big. A catalog drawing/photo could show her leaning on that side. Throw in an auxiliary water car ("jug") for good measure. There are two. Here she is with a Reading Camelback tender that fits on the Jersey Central turntable at Jim Thorpe with #425. The first "jug," a larger PRR tender, had to be turned separately.

PRR "jug"

And then there is Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway No. 426. She has an amazing custom paint job, full of local details. In the middle of her long hood is a waterfall, a trackside cataract near Old Penn Haven, where the Lehigh Valley and the Jersey Central interchanged.

I'll conclude with a photo of my Lionel Reading T-1 custom painted and detailed as #2124 by Reading Steam Guru.

The Alaska Railroad SD70MAC diesel locomotive pair with Flared Radiators, like on the one time Union Pacific SD70M diesel release.

Andrew

Good Day Andrew,

I agree, the Alaska RR SD70MAC’s would indeed be fantastic!

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=141600&nseq=15

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=417667&nseq=16

Regards,

Frank

To each his/her own of course, but that Q-3 Mike above is one U-G-L-Y BEAST in my NOT so humble opinion! 

Orioles and Ravens boxcars.

A decent-looking corrugated-side RPO.

I wish Lionel would make a decent-looking corrugated-side streamlined RPO. Many of us have space problems and run shorter cars. I would think that cars that were prototypically short--like certain Railway Post Office cars--would be a natural, even if only the Santa Fe and the Rock Island went for them. There's be little need for shortening or for the "toy train" effect--these were not long cars like most sleepers and coaches. You could have short cars that would not only appeal to the toy train end of the 3-rail market but also to those of us who'd like to run the more realistic-looking stuff.

DD35B in UP, SP or in Demonstrator colors.  Powered or non Powered

These requests will have to be made in 2014.

Andrew

Guess I'll post it here too.

a scale handcar with uncensored crew talk.

I'd prefer if Lionel would make some of the neater steam locomotive models MTH has done, but they seem to be stuck on the same models again and again in the same roadnames, maybe its a cookbook marketing strategy, I don't know. The Erie Triplex, PRR 2-10-0 Decapod & H10 2-8-0, Erie Angus, are among the engines I'd be tempted to buy over other copmpany versions.

GM-EMD GP35 locos and GM-EMD DD35 locos in the 1964 Red and White demonstration/test paint scheme, plus the F3 B-Unit rebuilt as the Engineering TEST Center.

Andrew

This switcher would find a place on my layout.

A SCALE Legacy equipped 44 tonner would be nice.  I will also second the need for a SCALE ten wheeler.  I will take both in Boston and Maine livery, please.

My vote goes to a model that would put those four BB smoke units to good use..   A VL Triplex with swinging bell, depleting coal, blow down, whistle and tender smoke and throw in dynamo smoke if it had a dynamo back then.

All 24 drivers turning with great sound... WoW... It would open checkbooks real fast.

Joe 

Well, either a N&W Z1a or S1a. Both wheel configurations have been made, they're need to make proper boiler and tender shells.

Short of these, my "buy" list is down to a Y3. All that is lacking there are the funds.

Gilly

A box car that I have and always liked was Lionel's Post War # X1004, P.RR. Curtiss Baby Ruth Candy 40' steel, double door box car:

http://www.postwarlionel.com/c...in/postwar?ITEM=1004

If Lionel could make it in and with:

1-Full 1:48 Scale Dimension, Proportion and Size;

2-Same Orange Color Paint Scheme on the body;

3-SAME Blue markings, as on the O-27 car, even if the markings are NOT prototypical;

4-40 foot length, steel car of its' time, WHICH WAS NOT A LIONEL FAMOUS PS-1 STYLE;

5-Operable Youngstown Double Doors, With, or without, Box Loads;

6-Has ALL of the safety equipment, such as, Ladders, Grab Irons-Upper and the TWO at        

     the Lower End Sills;

7-All Tack Boards;

8-Running Board,

9-Roof Corner Landings with Grab Irons.

10-Poling-Pockts (Which, Lionel Famously eliminates from their Famous PS-1 Style of box cars, unless I am wrong, of which earlier and depending on the RR's., some PS-1 boxes did have 'Poling-Pockets!!!!'

11-Whatever else a box car of the time period, of the late '30's, to the early '50's., had.

I know, that this is MY 'FANTASY CAR' and if Lionel could and would make it, it would probably cost the price of a plain dummy 'B' diesel unit, maybe $100.00, or #200.00!!!
Ralph 

Easy enough... I said it before and I'll said it again here...

FLEXI-VANS!

(Yawn)....oh, hey, is it that time again??

A Santa Fe Prairie, 2-6-2.  Preferably the 1800 class.  The 1050 (Park Princesses) class would be....acceptable...in the alternative.

OK.  (Yawn) Until next time...

Early Challenger, Union Pacific. 

Engines not previously produced would be nice also. 

Webster would use a picture of it as it defines the word UGLY!

I think that if they re-issued one in Conventional-only, it would fly off dealer shelves.  I know I'd spring for one.

Yes, Lionel made a Heisler, but it was a monster three truck version, and nothing

like a small Bachmann three-railed two truck, as most often seen in the real world, would be.  I think the MTH Climax was a big three truck model, too.