Run Your Streamline please. Amtrack? Bullet? British?

If your running conventional I would look at Williams trains. TrainWorld usually has some good deals on Williams.

https://www.trainworld.com/manufacturers/williams/

How large are your curves (i.e. 027, 031, 054 etc)? Do you want a streamlined steam locomotive? 

If you're looking for something in the "postwar Lionel" style then the Williams 40399 N&W J is both streamlined, a steam locomotive, and a modern reproduction of the postwar Lionel 746 N&W J. It will run on 027 and 031 curves without fuss.

thankyou gents!

Maybe not what your looking for but Prewar streamliners are cool!

I'm in the midsts of installing a Chuff Generator a Super Chuffer II and a Lionel Smoke Unit in a K-line K3380-3768G PRR Torpedo Limited Worlds Fair, should I get it all done, I'll post a video of it pulling the K-4580F PRR Fleet of Modernism cars tomorrow evening.  If I fail on the upgrade, I'll be crying in my beer.

Doood Perfect! (Maybe not what your looking for but Prewar streamliners are cool!.....Dennis Holler If its old and broke, I like it).. those are Sooo Sweeeet. Thanks for the photos

Thanks Rob.... You guys are RockStars!! Thank you. Good luck... oh, the beer will still taste just fine..... SMOKE, loving the smoke....

Thanks BIGBOY2005 Elliott "If your wife gives you grief about your love of trains, and adding to your collections, Just bring her over....... I'll show her how bad it COULD be..."

ya'll are fun folks. See you Saturday at the white bear lake show

MTH Rail King N&W J #611 are cheap and plentiful on the used market and are GREAT runner and looker. Add a few Williams passenger cars.......fantastic looking train. 

Here is a teaser.  I only have a seasonal layout, typically the last Friday of November till 12th Night

If you can find MTH Bantam "J"s you'll have something much more inexpensive and will go well with Lionel's 027 passenger cars - and there's plenty of cheap ones of those: I often see the ones made for "Nabisco" at shows for $10 per car. If you want prewar, look for Lionel Jr. - there's steam as well as diesel, a 2-4-2 Torpedo can be found at shows for less than $75.

Early MTH AT&SF from 1996.

OK   Rio Grande Zephyr

Steve

I don't have one of these but have always thought it was a gorgeous engine:

And you can't go wrong with a Williams/Samhongsa brass N&W J 4-8-4, these can be found for well under $500 and they're BRASS!!!  They're also almost 30" long (scale).