New Lionel Product Ideas

How about a Penn Central Metroliner set?

Since they made the b&o sd70ace, do a full csx heritage line. Also make lionmaster more prevalent. A great idea for a lionmaster loco is the polar railroad sd80mac, which was made at scale a decade ago.

A legacy RS1, lionmaster early challenger (CSA-2), lionmaster Dreyfuss, etc.

Another idea would be offering diesels with your choice of pilot;  kinematic, traditional or both. Being able to run the Sd70ace around o36 is really nice.

Take this new release

and then do a new version featuring the U.S. Air Force / CIA, Cpt. Gary Powers, U-2 spy plane, #1960, you could even include the characters from Mad magazine, "Spy vs. Spy."

A new Cab 2 !

While not "new" as in terms of tooling, I personally would like a re-issue of the following with LC2.0+

- British North Pole Central Steam Engines
My only request is that the green, #2 engine does not have the smokebox painted red, but rather have it green like the rest of the engine.

- The Lionel Victorian Christmas Set

- Albert Hall Set

- The R27 and R30 sets

-The ex-K-line, 18" Circus cars


Bryce

Legacy Pennsylvania Railroad Altoona Works Locomotive Test Plant

• Dynamometer rollers with load simulation
• Cutaway view so locomotive can be seen inside the plant
• Remote drawbar pull indicator (switchable scaled horsepower and pound force)
• Factory/Shop Environmental RailSounds (metal hammers, chatter, etc.)

@rplst8 posted:

Legacy Pennsylvania Railroad Altoona Works Locomotive Test Plant

• Dynamometer rollers with load simulation
• Cutaway view so locomotive can be seen inside the plant
• Remote drawbar pull indicator (switchable scaled horsepower and pound force)
• Factory/Shop Environmental RailSounds (metal hammers, chatter, etc.)

That sounds cool, but I’d hate to see the price tag.

How about

-CN Festival Express set with streaming/recording in the passenger coaches (eg. Uncle John's Band, Six Days on the Road, etc)

-streaming/recording  for the Chapel car (eg. church organ, Bringing in the Sheep, etc)

-Lionelstore Personalized rolling stock with customer's own graffiti tag

-Ford and Chevy cabooses

-Alco, Baldwin, Lima plant work trains

sign me up!

I would like MORE POLAR RAILROAD freight cars and engines, and caboose cars.  Not POLAR EXPRESS freight cars etc!  I find the new Lionel in many ways has totally forgotten their past.  Example, we used to have cabooses that talked in synch with the engine.  Talk about stereo sound, they were really what awesome was all about.