What would you like to see from Lionel in 2012?

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Please reverse the engine to tender couplings. I would like to see the hook end on the tender and the eye end on the engine. This way one would not have to lift a heavy engine with many delicate parts to couple the engine and tender together.

You don't have to lift the engine. Just tilt the tender up at the rear so the drawbar will slip under the post. Then all you have to do is align the rear tender truck.

1. Any grand trunk engine (gp's or switchers) with legacy and a true strobe light. Living behind railroad tracks for 25 years these are the engines I remember as a kid.

2. Be able to go on Lionel's website and drag and drop track to make any layout I want which would give me a shopping cart list once I am done.

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Originally posted by RickO:
A legacy J3a hudson with a PT tender!

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1. Any grand trunk engine (gp's or switchers) with legacy and a true strobe light. Living behind railroad tracks for 25 years these are the engines I remember as a kid.

Standard O Scale Grand Trunk Western GP9 Diesel-Electric Locomotive with the Blue, Red & White 1970's and 1980's GT paint scheme.

Notice the strobe light with a yellow lense on the roof of the cabin.




Andrew

A B&O Big six with all the bells and whistles, that big hunk of iron in the Franklin Institute in Philly a Baldwin Demonstrator three cylinder #20000 I think it is, it ran all over the country I hear, A pennsy, decopode, and a I,N, and any PRR or B&O version steamer of their choice.
Make me drool boys I am hungry for American steam.
John P

A Soo Line car that Lionel can actually make exact as an exact version

Soo Line 57' Mechanical Refrigerator Cars
SOO LINE 10000-10018 even numbers only



http://www.railcarphotos.com/P...ls.php?PhotoID=43414


Andrew

Falcon Service

This is the SOO 10000 Mechanical Refrigerator repainted after 1974 with white ends and the later style of reporting marks. From the book FREIGHT TRAIN CARS by Jack Pierce.



Andrew

Falcon Service

a hogwarts observation car

Both Lionel and MTH need to make an accessory button than, when pushed, blows every crew talk chip on your layout.

EngineerTalk, ConductorTalk, and FiremanTalk from the Real Railroads.

Andrew

• New York Central TOFC with Flexi-Van Trailers or Grey vans.
  
• Jade Green PS-1 Boxcar with modern NYC script logo
  
• NYC Bulkhead Flatcar
  
• Lionelville Police Station
  
• Modern Overhead Signal
  

I would like to see a scale legacy UP steam switch engine. Maybe a paint job on the current 0-8-0 that is offered in multiple road names. My Bigboy just doesn't look right switching in the freight yard.

i think they need more legacy sound freight cars like the ethanol tank car set they were gone before they hit the stores i still can't find a set if you know someone please let me know champofny@aol.com PLEASE !!!!!!

Mmmmmmmm... Mechanical Reeeferrrr



BTW: I'm really diggin' the black ends of the car. Adds a lot of contrast.

I would like Lionel to re-issue their SD40-2 engine with Legacy and with the Burlington Northern Bicentennial paint scheme (cab #1876). This would match perfectly with their recently released BN Bicentennial U30C. These two engines, BN's U30C #1776 and SD40-2 #1876, were the only diesels to pull the American Freedom Train without any of the AFT's steamers (4449 was in the shop). Since I have the complete K-Line AFT set, I think having these two engines together would be great.

Ron

I second that soo line reefer... I made that request of them before at york. That reefer is a favorite...


White soo, black ends red door and so what about silver roof too

1. More quillable whistle variations per steam engine say 8-10. The three get boring.

2. Scale appearing accessories that are weathered too.

3. Legacy B&O engine with vanderbilt tender under $950

4. scale cars to go with scale accessories

5. more cars w track noises

6. Better cab chatter that is more realistic in terms of sound and content.

7. Cab chatter that can be turned on to talk randomly to provide more variety.

I would like to see Lionel put out their PA-A in the New Haven Forest Green and Yellow paint scheme. I would also be pleased if they did a scale 40 foot boxcar with the New haven script herald.

I also hope Lionel redoes the Fairbanks Morse Loewy-design roadswitcher in New Haven, only this time with a different number.

If Lionel gains control of the former K-Line EP-5 dies, I hope they re-release more EP-5s in the New Haven scheme only this time with a different road number.

And would it be too much to ask somebody to re-release the EP-5s with a sound system that sounds like an electric locomotive and not a diesel?

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Originally posted by Super O Bob:White soo, black ends red door and so what about silver roof too

Did those cars have a silver roof? If so, that would be pretty nice. I always loved the silver roof on their EV Caboose.

SOO Reefer!!!

One of the things I'd like to see is another run of their Standard O 40' flatcars (in PRR for me) without any type of load, but I'd like them to be offered in 2-packs or 3-packs as well as single cars.

Andy

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Originally posted by SB..:

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Originally posted by Super O Bob:White soo, black ends red door and so what about silver roof too

Did those cars have a silver roof? If so, that would be pretty nice. I always loved the silver roof on their EV Caboose.

SOO Reefer!!!

Yes, I had a model of these reefers some where along the way, it had the same decor as your picture but with a silver roof. I loved the car...

Hope Lionel makes it. Lionel did one in the modern 50' standard O (traditional Std O, not scale). I think it had a siver roof.

An ADDAMS FAMILY Broadway play boxcar. Or use a range target car which blows up!

A Peanuts Christmas train

rat

Kadee mounting pads on EVERYTHING they make.

Scale 44 ton locomotive priced around $100. If they could do it with the dockside switcher, they can do it for this. B&M black scheme, please.

Put smoke in conventional engines.
led head lights.
A good horn w/t trainsounds.
This would make a great conventional engine.

Definitely an Erie Triplex in black.

Improved shipping dates. The present ones with its delays makes Amtrak's SUNSET LTD look live the Frence bullet train.

Since Lionel will be rerunning the 57 foot mechanical reefers to produce the Soo Line version I hope they do a batch in the orange and blue Santa Fe MTC scheme too.

I agree with Bill Henning on US Production! I also agree that Lionel needs another killer train set like Polar Express, something to engage the younger population.

How about new Vision/Legacy:
GS-4 Daylight with Passenger cars
Streamlined PRR K-4 with Passenger cars
More triple or quad boxcar sets with unique numbering
Better accessory controllers, ala MTH AIU.
How about real setup and control from an iPad or Android tablet?

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How about new Vision/Legacy:
GS-4 Daylight with Passenger cars

I'll get in line for that set!! Please, Lionel!

The aluminum body ACF Center Flow 3-bay covered hopper in the Northern Pacific ACF Conditionaire graphic scheme. This image is a smaller scale model. They could get even better markings on an O Scale model.



Andrew

NP CENTER FLOW CONDITIONAIRE Covered Hopper photo links

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...cture.aspx?id=642606

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...ture.aspx?id=1830332

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...cture.aspx?id=451791

Andrew

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Originally posted by rthomps:

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How about new Vision/Legacy:
GS-4 Daylight with Passenger cars

I'll get in line for that set!! Please, Lionel!

I think this was already re run in legacy. I have one.

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Originally posted by RickO:
A legacy J3a hudson with a PT tender!

I'd like some more Legacy equipped SD40-2's for the Classics Line, I love the ones from 2006 (Norfolk Soutehrn/Canadian Natl.) and can't have too many of them.

Plus a new scale model of Strasburg's #90 Decapod Steamer and White Pass & Yukon's #73 Mikado both with Legacy and Vision Whistle, plus matching excursion passenger cars. Either could be in the Vision or Classics Line.

For the Conventional Classics, I'd like two favorites from 1956. The #2273WS Milwaukee Road 2378 F-3 Frieght Set, and the 2368 Baltimore & Ohio F-3 AB's fro seperate sale. Plus set #1430WS O-27 passenger set with the 2025 Steamer and the 3 green 2400-series passenger cars. Those would be cool to see fresh, inexpensive and new.

A Missouri Pacific 2200 Class 4-8-4.



A Texas and Pacific 600 class 2-10-4 #610


And Cotton Belt #819 4-8-4


The T&P engine resides today in Texas and the SSW #819 in Pine Bluff,AR.

Keep the price around 900-1100 and I'll buy all three!

Ricky

Ricky,

I have been waiting for either a Cotton Belt 819 or a Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 since I got in to O gauge back in 1992. (20 years) We can only keep wishing I guess. The Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 with the glossy gray green boiler,cylinder jacketing, external dry pipes and booster pipe as deliverd would make one heck of an engine. I have a picture - too bad they did not have color pics in 1928.
I would have to have 2 of those (correct T&P 2-10-4, not a Pennsy with T&P on the side) if produced and probally 2 cotton belts as well. The Cotton Belts could also be done with Southern Pacific as well since they were all shipped out west at the end of there lifes.

Some Heavy Mikado's in St. L. B. & M (Mopac) would be a real winner in a smaller engine

Joe

i have become infected, a legacy hiawatha with 15" cars.

http://ogaugerr.infopop.cc/gro...B6F9C88757611D5E.GIF