Two MORE Vision Commodore Vanderbilts? 💸

Yes, i resisted ordering a commodore myself until i saw the black one… and they just keep pulling me back in.  Now to find the right passenger cars…those Niagara’s might look great.

@Wells Lifka posted:

Now to find the right passenger cars…those Niagara’s might look great.

How awesome (albeit non-prototypical?) would a set of all-black NYC heavyweights be behind that engine? 😍

The black version is extremely tempting. It feels like a subtle callback to the '99 model Lionel made in low numbers.

Depending on how the normal production models turn out, this might be a winner.

Maybe it would be better as an all Penn Central train?

@Mikado 4501 posted:

The black version is extremely tempting. It feels like a subtle callback to the '99 model Lionel made in low numbers.

Depending on how the normal production models turn out, this might be a winner.

Yes! I have that one, and other than the "Train of the Year" version from Lionel with the black/gold 125th anniversary trim I was surprised they didn't offer a black/dark version.

One thing that just came to mind that I didn't really care for before, but what is the "correct" color for the New York Central herald on the front of the locomotive?

The previous iterations by Lionel had it colored red, but a few others have had it colored blue, and it looks like this run will have the herald colored black. I know this locomotive was shrouded twice, so there is likely more than one correct answer...

Wow, the all black CV is scary-looking...and frankly more scary than the Halloween CV, at least to me. Imagine seeing that thing boiling down the mainline with a consist of casket carrying boxcars, flatcars with vampire zombies on them...the hearse of locomotives