What are you waiting for?

I want a Legacy N&W #611

I SECOND THAT

ALEX

I have been waiting for a scale C&O yellow belly.... Finally bought the 1994 version - which assures that they will offer one soon.... 

I am building a collection of original TMCC Geeps.  They are like living history.  The progression of TMCC technology from start to finish = Legacy.  All are unique and have their own characteristics and charm.  I would rather buy an engine new than used.  I have the remaining engines located, except for 2.  What I'm waiting for is more dough to round out my collection, which I hope to someday display in it's entirety on a wall next to my layout.  Then I'll work on getting a 2nd of my favorites, because two is always better than one.

I know I'm in the minority on this one but I would like anyone to make a scale Davenport Diesel.

RMT boxcab.

Legacy - Lionmaster SP Cab Forward w/smoking whistle or a Lionmaster UP FEF w/smoking whistle.

Lionmaster Hudson with Legacy

hi-nose SD-45

LS&I, Soo or DSS&A Steam...

How about a Legacy GTW GP38 or Milwaukee Baby Trainmaster

I'm waiting for Lionel to return my new Lima Berk that I sent in for repair.

Doug

A LEGACY J3a HUDSON!!!!!!

The Atlas O U-23-B I pre-ordered in 2010. And anything AC&Y.

Tom

LIONEL EL GP-35 DUMMY

LIONEL SBD SD ROUND ROOF

LIONEL NP DD ROUND ROOF

LIONEL REA TRACTOR TRAILER TRUCK

ATLAS O T-MAN ERIE B/W 6747

ATLAS O EL 50’ DD (pending on price)

ATLAS O PC 50’ DD (pending on price)

WEAVER MILW H. Ribbed Side G5004

WEAVER MILW H. Ribbed Side G5007

WEAVER WM -CHESSIE 9 PNL HOPPERS

WEAVER C&O 9 PNL PE HOPPERS

WEAVER SCL 50’ BOX CAR

WEAVER PC   50'BOX CAR

MTH LIRR RS-1 (reserved)

MTH LIRR HW (2 reserved)

MTH LIRR DASHDAN SAND CARS

MORNING SUN BOOKS LIRR VOL.4 (reserved)

Dealers email your best price.

I'd love to see MTH re-release the DDA40X in its original non-heritage fleet scheme... havent done it since PS1.

Railking Imperial versions of the European steamers MTH makes. I love the looks of the European Premier steam but don't have the money and/or layout to have a Premier Scale one. 

New York Central Pacific, Something that preceded and displaced by the J1e Hudson. Probably a K-3 class.

I'm waiting for SMR to import the CVRR "Pioneer"!

I guess I'll be the first one to say I buy the first issues. Vision features are amazing no doubt but they are not what I buy a model for and thus not worth the extra money (and potential headaches) for me. My bare minimum criteria for a scale model is reasonable scale fidelity and TMCC. Once I get those two, all else is bonus. So, if Lionel has already made an engine I really like with TMCC, that's the one going in my collection.

Exceptions are if the first issue of that locomotive is the Legacy / Vision issue, or if the reissue is leaps and bounds ahead of the original in detailing. Only real example of that I have seen thus far is the difference between the 1999 and 2006 Big Boys.

One thing I am waiting for though is for Lionel to re-release the K-Line scale Hudson tooling with Legacy. After the Vision Hudson left us scale junkies twisting in the wind, this seems to be the most plausible scenario for a proper Lionel model of J1e 5344.

I'll throw in my usual request for the "Comrade of the Cornfields."

Rusty

Baldwin DRX6-4-2000:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/cnj2000.jpg

Bob

Legacy OR PS3 Ann Arbor GP-35s.  I'd need exceptional detail and features because Atlas came out with the TMCC version a few years ago.

One feature I'd like to see, especially on diesels is the ability to customize the road number.  If the sound file has road number specific sounds, then have the ability to make it match whatever road number you pick.

MTH re-release of their Milwaukee Road box cabs or scale Little Joes. Don

Excellent suggestion.....

Lionel announced at their seminar at the LCCA convention Friday a Legacy N&W J with passenger cars for the Pocohontas.

Neal Jeter

Don't know if I have anything in particular I am waiting for but what I do find interesting in the responses is what seems to be an overwhelming number of folks that are mentioning Vision and / or Legacy versions on their wish list......obviously good for Lionel!!

Alan

I second that too.. I am not gonna buy a older one.. We all know the legacy 611 is comming.. If there is issiues with it. Lionel is 40 mins away and i will get  it back the same day most of the times...

I'm waiting for small, mainline steam of the turn of the century, pre-WWI era. Specifically, a generic Baldwin Ten Wheeler and a Milwaukee Road K-class 2-6-2 Prairie, preferably by MTH or Weaver. I prefer DCS over Legacy (mainly due to the SMPH speed readout and better ergonomics on the remote); if I can't have DCS I will go with Weaver because of their unequaled customer service and their acceptance of customer input in the design phase. 

ALCo C430 with high adhesion trucks:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...ture.aspx?id=1736731

Regarding a preferred builder, as long as the model is of the correct dimensions, possesses accurate detail, is properly painted and runs well I don't care who makes it: MTH, WBB, Atlas, 3rd Rail...take your pick.

Bob  

Me too!

James

Me too, with whistle steam!

Doug

Scott Mann's recent announcement that 3rd Rail was going to make FP-7's takes care of one want. Other than that:

- The Lionel streamlined Hudson in its original orange paint instead of yellow.

-A C&O K2 and K3 heavy Mikado in two versions - rectangular tender and Vanderbilt tender.

Ken

I am waiting to see what Williams by Bachmann does with their new line-up of GP-30's or GP-35's, want to see what roadnames they have.

The other one I want to see is a decent set of Reading Company passenger cars produced. Almost everybody, to include Williams, focuses on engines or freight cars with the exception of more than one caboose style.

The other style of passenger car not being produced that much is the RDC's, or rail diesel cars. An RDC is a self powered rail passenger car that can also have one or two trailing (unpowered) cars with it.

Lee F.

The first group of road names for the WBB GP30 will be New York Central, Atlantic Coast Line, Great Northern and Union Pacific.

Following the introduction of the very nice Peter Witt car, I'm encouraged by Bachmann's announcement of a newly tooled diesel for O gauge. I believe Bachmann stands ready to meet the demand for well detailed, scale sized equipment without the sophisticated command electronics of its competition. I hope we'll soon see more similarly featured motive power announced in the not too distant future. GE 44 and 70 ton units, anyone?

Bob      

Other than completing a few projects, I've decided not to buy any more trains until I decide whether or not I want to stay in 3-rail or go to 2-rail.  I can spend $800 on PS2/3 upgrade kits (if they ever become available again) or spend that money on converting my engines and rolling stock to 2-rail.

Right now I'm leaning towards 2-railing everything.

Gee, I just want world peace!  

Nothing like an original thought. 

An MTH PS3 Centipede just to sit on the shelf and look awesome.  Or a Baldwin Sharknose to actually run.  

Like "Kanawha", I have been waiting for years for a C&O Mikado with all the gingerbread: flying pumps, brow-mounted Elesco, and I need only the coal-fired

Vanderbilt. (Didn't Lionel make the Pacific, or threaten to?  I have never seen one)

Also for years I have waited for the Little River RR's 2-4-4-2 articulateds, and for a

two truck, average size..(20-50 ton?) TWO TRUCK Heisler. (no four trucks, no five

trucks, and don't need electronic stuff...just conventional so I can run it, rather

than spend time fixing it)(all built with Williams or Marx indestructibility would be

nice)

HMmmm

OK, MTH Rio Grande Imperial Railking Steamers that Rio Grande actually operated.

2-8-0

4-6-0

4-6-2

4-8-4

2-8-8-2

or a Challenger, which I missed due to finances and timing. My daughter got married that year.

A SP Cab Forward

Lionel offered a AC-12 years ago.  I would like to see someone offer one that had the sounds and features that were unique to this class of engines.

The sound of their air pumps were different from most other steamers.  They "wheeze" a very special sound.  This can be heard on recordings of these engines. And, get this for those of those who do not no, on the rear deck of the tender, appearing like a backup light, is a KLAXON horn!  Yes, the SP equipped these engines with this horn to warn when backing up.  If any manufacturer offers a SP AC-12 with these features, count me in.  Also, many of these engines had a smoke stack splitter.  This was to reduce the exhaust blast when operating in territory which had many tunnels and snowsheds.  This would look great when operating the smoke feature of the model.  Photos of the real engines show this split exhaust effect. And please equip the model with that small light that was mounted to the rear of the smoke stack so that the fireman could see the condition of his fire at night.

Steve