What would you like to see Lionel make in 2014 and 2015.

How about some more of that "original k line stuff". The legacy k-4s and "mikes" are nice, what about some more of those nicely detailed 60' passenger cars and cabooses k line made?

A limited-run pair of Lionel PA-1s in the New Haven's yellow and forest green paint scheme to go with the pre-McGinnis paint jobs on the passenger cars put out by Atlas and Golden Gate Depot.

I forgot to list in my previous post:

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

How about a U-33B with the AAR-B type truck instead of the EMD Blomberg truck and no light on the short hood, the way that Penn Central, Rock Island, and other roads had them. (Come to think of it, a Rock Island unit in the brown-and-yellow paint scheme with the big Rock Island on the side wouldn't be a bad choice).

Here's a relatively simple request. A LionMaster Legacy UP Challenger in "Greyhound". I have the original Lionel LionMaster "Greyhound" Challenger and we recently purchased the new Legacy LionMaster Challenger in black.

Wow! What a difference!!!

Steve

I'd like an Allied Chemical hopper and tank car from the 1950's;a Church and Dwight hopper would also work for me.

Norm

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Originally posted by Rusty Traque:

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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

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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?

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Originally posted by DPC:

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Originally posted by Rusty Traque:

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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

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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!

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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.

Well, since we'll be doing so much Soo Line freight, we may as well through in another engine to go with it. This one is just waiting the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, in Duluth Minnesota. Has to have the correct AAR truck side-frames though. I don't care if they give it dynamic brakes either.

I was at a show and one of the manufactures/Importers stated that there were not many engines left in O gauge to model anymore. He said this with a strait face also.
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

Rutland STEAM

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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.

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Originally posted by RLHarner:

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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.

A New York Central 2-4-4T as used on the Getty Square Branch of the Putnam Division in the early 1900's.



Also,

A Legacy NYC J3a Hudson

I would like to see a Vision B&O EM-1 and a B&O Big Six S1 2-10-2. Even a B&O 0-8-0 w/Legacy would be much appreciated. Bill B.

I have had no discussions with model railroad manufacturers/importers ever.
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.

Tony, Here is the button box.

Besides the Allied Chemical and Church & Dwight cars,I'd like a P&WV 4-6-6-2.

Norm

rerelease the EMD E-6 diesels

"Smart" 21st Century Diesel Maintenance Facility Building!

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

Southern Pacific AC-4 which Lionel cataloged 2-3 years ago but never made. Either Legacy or Vision Line with selectable exhaust chuffs (more than 4). Yeah, I know MTH did reruns of the AC-6 and 3rd Rail had it's AC-4, but it'd be great to have a Legacy companion to the AC-12.

Lionel does not make stuff only import stuff. And I wonder if the locos should have haz-mat placards on them because they have explosive qualities!

i would like to see a quality product. a $1000 engine shouldn't have loose and missing screws or broken off screws in the engine shell. wires in the tender leading to the smoke resistors shouldn't be pinched between the smoke chamber and frame exposing bare wire. wires on the tender leading to the IR pickup chaff as they move through the frame as the spring action cupler moves. this is only a small sample of what i found.

build them in china if you must; but PLEASE assemble them here by people who care. thank you

Lionel could really throw us a curve by making some classic American Fyer sets in O gauge and some Classic O gauge sets in S gauge

PeeWeeVee 4-6-6-2? That makes 'er a cab forward! I'd consider one if they
do it right. Same with some baby FMs in green and yellow...packin' for
the Mogadore.

As much as I like the steam chest steam feature, I personally feel if they can't do both steam chest and whistle then I would do the whistle. So in 2013 I vote for both effects.

I have not seen the steam chest effect in person yet, the videos look cool. Like Marty, I would likely prefer the whistle steam effect over the steam chest. I do know that for 2013 I hope that Lionel gets back to having the steam actually emanate from the whistle like it does on my ATSF 3000 rather than from a hole in the boiler behind the whistle like on the new 3751. It is a small detail, but it looks so much cooler coming out of the whistle!

Lionel Legacy B&O EM-1; NP A-3, A-4 OR A-5; GN R-2 (open cab)only done by Weaver in the mid-90's); PRR & NP Y-3.

A legacy Southern Ms-4. A Vision/Legacy Southern Ls-2. Kadee conversion friendly rolling stock.

 

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

 

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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!

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