Semiquincentennial 250th Anniversary Commemorative Editions

I hope you’re willing to make sure they spell it right!…..that’s a mouthful of letters!

Pat

@Pocono Jack posted:

Will Lionel or any train manufacturers be putting out a Semiquincentennial locomotive or train to commemorate this occasion?

Yes

Stu

Hopefully the real railroads will paint locomotives in commemorative liveries, just like some of them did in 1976 for the US Bicentennial celebration. I would buy commemorative BNSF and UP diesels (and definitely an Amtrak loco as well). I'd love to see a Legacy Santa Fe Bicentennial SD45-2 made by Lionel, MTH, or Atlas (preferably Lionel).

Apparently, there's another term for 250th anniversary, Sestercentennial .

It's a closer term since sesterti means 2 1/2 in Latin, so it's 2 and half centennials, whereas the other term is literally "half a 500th anniversary".

if there's money to be made,rest assured the market will be flooded with offerings

@Dylan the Train Man posted:

Hopefully the real railroads will paint locomotives in commemorative liveries, just like some of them did in 1976 for the US Bicentennial celebration.

At least one short line already has.

I hope others follow suit.  I'd like to see all the big players do a tribute diesel, and I think it would also be pretty cool if Reading & Blue Mountain painted their T1 in a scheme similar to the American Freedom Train #1 (now sadly rotting away at the B&O museum ).  Such schemes would give all the model RR companies plenty of new product to sell.

Andy

@Andy Hummell posted:

At least one short line already has.

I hope others follow suit.  I'd like to see all the big players do a tribute diesel, and I think it would also be pretty cool if Reading & Blue Mountain painted their T1 in a scheme similar to the American Freedom Train #1 (now sadly rotting away at the B&O museum ).  Such schemes would give all the model RR companies plenty of new product to sell.

Andy

Andy,  you are spot on.  It is very sad to see the AFT at Baltimore Roundhouse in the condition it is in.  I sure hope they clean her up and give her a fresh paint job in the near future.

Jim

@Jim Sandman posted:

Andy,  you are spot on.  It is very sad to see the AFT at Baltimore Roundhouse in the condition it is in.  I sure hope they clean her up and give her a fresh paint job in the near future.

Jim

Thanks for the link Andy, interesting article and great photo. Nice to see this is getting some attention by the railroads. Hope the model companies put out some nice pieces as well.