027 Texas Special passenger set to go with my beautiful Lionel Texas Special FT diesels. ARE YOU READING THIS LIONEL.....please, please, please!
TEX
Steve
Wow! What a difference!!!
Steve
Norm
quote:Originally posted by Rusty Traque:quote:Originally posted by ReadingFan:
Going out to left field, how about a series of locomotives that were planned but never built?
You mean, something like THESE???
(All images take from "Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail" SRHS (c)1976.
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And the "Monsters"
2-10-10-10-10-10-2
Rusty
My Gosh Rusty,
If Lionel made a Vision Line 2-10-10-10-10-10-2
I'd cost so much you'd have to sell your Ol Lady to buy it.
Mmmm What was the name of those auction houses again???
David
quote:Originally posted by KOOLjock1:
One of these in the LionMaster line:
Jon
MAKE IT SCALE! would look great with the k4 boiler. The Pennsy made them interchangeable why cant lionel?
quote:Originally posted by DPC:quote:Originally posted by Rusty Traque:quote:Originally posted by ReadingFan:
Going out to left field, how about a series of locomotives that were planned but never built?
You mean, something like THESE???
(All images take from "Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail" SRHS (c)1976.
Boy that would be cool! not the engine the other part.
Unforunatly I would not get much for the old girl, maybe a cheese burger happy meal, I afraid I could not get a section of Ross track for her let alone a big steamer, she is a lot of goog for other things...
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And the "Monsters"
2-10-10-10-10-10-2
Rusty
My Gosh Rusty,
If Lionel made a Vision Line 2-10-10-10-10-10-2
I'd cost so much you'd have to sell your Ol Lady to buy it.
Mmmm What was the name of those auction houses again???
David
quote:MAKE IT SCALE! would look great with the k4 boiler. The Pennsy made them interchangeable why cant lionel?
Compromise then: one of each. They could use the "BabyK-4" tooling to save money on the LionMaster version. That's what MTH did for their RailKing version.
Jon
Lionel should make a Vision true D&RGW Articulated. They had several classes one if them the L-131 was the largest steam engine before the Big Boy. There is too many versions for me to post, but if Lionel did their research properly, they would have a winner.
I've seen some 2 rail scale O gauge D&RGW engines and they were spectacular!
quote:Originally posted by John Newberger:
3) FANTASY PICK - Train from BACK TO THE FUTURE III. If we will buy a COORS train... imagine this one. Cab-2 funtions for automatic opening doors, spinning weather vane, smoke effect and under frame lighting (RED ORANGE FIREBOX maybe)to signal departure and that way cool tender.
I agree that would be a VERY cool idea, if it's feasible. But if they did the Polar Express, Back to the Future would be just as reasonable.
Along with that, 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 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.
1. He is very misinformed
2. He was told to say that.
3. He is not at all knowledgeable of the motive power of any railroads.
4. He is stupid and has to be retrained after lunch everyday
In any case there are many engines to be done, more then enough to fill Catalogs for a long time, just look at this tread. That L 131 that marker showed us a stupendous machine , Rio Grande is not one of my roads but I buy that mean old girl in a New York Hear beat. That is a great heavily piped ugly brute, dang I love it.
The bottom line is there are plenty North American engines to be built for a long time and not one would have to be a Hudson.
John P
quote:Metroliners:
PRR, Penn Central, Amtrak
Rail Diesel Cars (RDC) scale sets (any and all roads)
New Jersey Transit GP40PH-2B (Atlantic City Line, rebuilds from GP40s)
F7 ABBA (Passenger): Penn Central
E8 ABA: Penn Central
SD45: Penn Central
Good list!!
But seriously, I'd be REAL happy if they made something they have never made 10 times over already. Every year, this forum provides "FREE" marketing advice and every year we continue to be disappointed by the same old stuff, albeit with the latest electronics, but still how many F3s does one need? How many years of asking will it take?
Price is not the issue from reading these wish lists, the issue is getting something new, not made before..my train dollars are being spent elsewhere for lack of anything exciting. That's real bad news for our hobby, IMHO. I ordered FL9-s last years, not from the big three, because someone else offered them, and it was high on my list. If Lionel and such decide wow we should make those too, well my money got spend already. I got the FL-9s. With the electronics to boot.
So Lionel, go out on an edge once in while read these lists and take them seriously. We got bucks to spend on this stuff. If you want that money, make the products being requested once in a while, a decade later...I'm doubtful we will see these items ever. I've been asking fro some of these for 10+ years now.
quote:Originally posted by RLHarner:quote:Originally posted by KOOLjock1:
One of these in the LionMaster line:
Jon
MAKE IT SCALE! would look great with the k4 boiler. The Pennsy made them interchangeable why cant lionel?
I'd be willing to bet Lionel has 80 percent of this locomotive already in their parts inventory. They just have not thought about building it.
Also,
A Legacy NYC J3a Hudson
Do they actually read model train forums to see what participants would like for them to offer for sale?
Do they question dealers to find out what is being asked for?
Can somebody give examples of this happening?
Would the size of the company be a factor in this?
I am not being a smart butt,I really would like to know.
Norm
Technology and Innovations have always caught my eye. That said, I would suggest that Lionel produce a "Smart" 21st Century Diesel Maintenance Facility Building.
Legacy features:
1. Open and close the doors with Cab-1 or Cab-2.
2. Turn exterior and interior lights on or off with Cab-1 or Cab-2.
3. Enter Id’s into Legacy Cab-2 what Diesel or Steam locomotives are assigned to their scheduled maintenance and have announcements from the Maintenance Facility or Roundhouse when the engines need to be serviced. “Engine 1988 Scheduled Maintenance today track one”, kind of like a Locomotive Maintenance Management System. The Service check could be programmed for 30, 60 or 90 days. This would make for a great reminder to look your engines over for traction tire issues, lubricate gears, check for loose wires, and a general maintenance check just like the real deal. If you wanted to service all your engines in 1 session, then you could enter a code that would make an announcement of all your engine ids one at a time every 5 or 10 minutes until you have acknowledge the engine has been serviced. At the end of the day you could enter a code that would check all the engines in inventory that have been serviced and announce “All engines serviced next scheduled maintenance in 30 days”.
The Maintenance Facility could even make announcements for staging your Diesel or Steam locomotives for sand, water and fueling. “Engine 1982 Track two clear for fueling”. A two stall modern building would look fantastic. A roundhouse would be colossal!
Regards,
Swafford
build them in china if you must; but PLEASE assemble them here by people who care. thank you
do it right. Same with some baby FMs in green and yellow...packin' for
the Mogadore.
Illinois Central Gulf freight cars sell out faster than IC freight cars.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF ACF Center Flow 3560 Cu. Ft. Capy. 3-bay covered hoppers.
One single road number and a 3-Pack.
Andrew
Falcon Service
http://www.users.globalnet.co....e01/tank/tank21.jpeg
Even though I have been waiting 20 years for one, a DuPont TI-PURE Uni-Body Tank Car would be a good choice.
Andrew
A LionMaster Legacy NYC Niagra.
Peter
How about an engine that runs right out of the box with no problems.
Scale turbine and wabash F7!
Better "Trainsounds".
Traditional-sized wagon-top B&O boxcars.
0-4-0 Dockside switcher.
Locomotive kit.
You nailed it for me too, Jim.
I like the 2 and 3 packs of the scale cars...how about a regional northeast 2 or 3 pack like a Lehigh & New England 2 bay AAR hopper and a grey Jersey Central PS-2 covered hopper or a Buffalo Creek flour PS-1 and a Lehigh Valley PS-5 gondola in the 50s tuscan scheme...
Also:
I held off on buying the MTH Susquehanna S-2 because of the floating pilot issue...Lionel has a fixed pilot -- do this up in the grey and maroon Susie Q and I am THERE!
L&HR C420s with Legacy and matching NE caboose...
More scale freight car tooling...how about a generic double door 40 ft single sheathed autobox -- the midwest roads bought those things up -- flyover country supporters should be all over that...also, maybe a generic 40 ft ventilator boxcar...lots of southern roads had em....
Brian