Should have posted sooner for custom runs, but how about Reading Company RDCs and Reading NW-2, preferably in Pullman Green. Thanks!

A Vision Line Phantom with matching passenger cars!

Every single variation of Pullman-Standard 50' box cars built between 1970-1980

Made out of aluminum or stainless steel that is 3D printed.

Made out of stainless steel sheets that are realistically thin that are stamped and welded together.

Box cars with distinct Pullman-Standard style doors are noticeably absent in 1:64th, 1:48th, 1:32nd scales.

Andrew

Strasburg 475 & Hello Dolly open air car.  

more graffiti locomotives and freight cars

maybe some heavily tagged passenger equipment

more stuff for FAST FRIGHT SERVICE

N&W legacy crane and boom car

A proper caboose to go with the class A

When's the catalog come out? I probably can't buy this time around but I still love to look

@falconservice posted:

Every single variation of Pullman-Standard 50' box cars built between 1970-1980

MTH owns that market now. Atlas stated they no longer making those expensive models or parts to support them. We can only hope for new box car models never offer before like 40 & 50' combination door cars. Nothing else to add for the collection going forward. I have everything.

A scale PRR T1; another run of the vision line NYC hudson and a black SP GS4

lionchief plus 2.0 strasburg locomotive

anther stab at the drive in diner . i was really sad to see the christmas one cancelled even though i couldn't afford it

tier 4 christmas set

lionchief new hope and ivyland set

anybody know when in july is vol2 supposed to be out?

Reading T1's in three schemes: in service, rambles, and the 2102's "Reading and Northern" lettering.

I think we are long overdue for prototypical N&W hoppers that aren't brass.

Railking tooling E8's in Southern.

Lionchief A&WP 290 pacific.

Lionchief N&W 611, postwar tooling not railking.

Lionchief CNJ NJT heritage GP40.

O Gauge line sound box cars using 6464 tooling.

ACWR freight locomotives (SD-40-3 or GP-40-2)

Additional ACWR business train cars

More scale small steam

B&O streamlined P7D (Cincinnatian)

Finally, an absolute pipe dream: Scale electrocouplers

A "MAD" magazine train.   

Four freight cars + caboose + Phantom (why not?) loc.

All appropriately decorated in the usual "MAD" style.

What?  Me Worry?

@PSM posted:

ACWR freight locomotives (SD-40-3 or GP-40-2)

Additional ACWR business train cars

I am really happy with my ACWR Lionel items and have more on order. I would love to see some freight.

LionChief AeroTrain Set

LionChief Plus Mercury Set

LionChief Plus Plus Forty-Niner Locomotives

North Pole Central 13-14 inch Passenger cars

When is the next catalog due out?

@tom21pa posted:

When is the next catalog due out?

Next month in July, someone may provide an exact date, but somewhere around 17 July.

@rthomps posted:

A MAD" magazine train.   

Four freight cars + caboose + Phantom (why not?) loc.

All appropriately decorated in the usual "MAD" style.

What?  Me Worry?

Hopefully, Lionel will take inspiration from Alfred E., but until then, I continue to kit bash in honor of Mr. Neuman.

Two recent examples with others in the pipeline...

NYC/P&LE A2 Berkshire --MTH made it a long time ago--really cool steam engine

original norfolk southern F1 Berkshire

original norfolk southern 70 ton switcher

carolina and northwestern rs11

original norfolk southern midnight express passenger set

original NS AS416

original NS Tarwheel boxcar with freight sounds

Original NS diecast coal hoppers

original NS doodlebug

21 inch U.P. EXTRUDED ALUMINUM PASSENGER CARS w/FIGURES

REALLY HIDDEN COUPLER TABS

Here's my updated list of things I want to see in the next catalog or future catalogs. It's a pretty long list.

-4 Digit Addressing in all new Legacy locos

-Modern freight cars with freight sounds

-GP60, GP60M, and GP60B (Did Lionel acquire the MTH tooling for these?)

-Bring back more former K-Line tooling, especially their SD75M/SD75I with Legacy and Pacific Surfliner Passenger Cars with Stationsounds

-Legacy ET44AC; BNSF ET44C4 with correct truck details

-Legacy SD70ACe-T4

-Legacy F45/FP45 (Did Lionel acquire the tooling from MTH for these too?)

-Updated LCS system for use with Base 3; updated LCS App too

-Legacy SD45-2 Locomotive (don't know if anyone makes these in O-Scale)

-Legacy Siemens Chargers w/ matching passenger cars

-New Amtrak Superliners, ATSF El Capitan, and ATSF Super Chief passenger trains

-O84 and O96 Fastrack Remote/Command Switches

-Fastrack Turntable with Command-Control

-Command-Control Scale Intermodal Crane

-Legacy Crane Car/Boom Car Sets

-Updated Accessory Voltage Controller (AVC) for LCS

-Legacy or LC+2.0 Phantom Locomotives, matching passenger car sets, and matching freight car sets (multiple versions)

-Double Track Fastrack Truss Bridge

-Fastrack Bascule Bridge (Single and Double Track versions)

LionChief Plus Torpedo.
LionChief Illinois Central City of New Orleans set

LionChief City of Los Angeles Set

I would like Lionel to make a proper PRR C-Liner. With a four axel rear truck and a DGLE paint hop with single gold stripe.

@das boot posted:

Hopefully, Lionel will take inspiration from Alfred E., but until then, I continue to kit bash in honor of Mr. Neuman.

Two recent examples with others in the pipeline...

That work is FAN-tastic, d-b!!

Great stuff.  Great train! 

"Vote for Alfred!  He'll save the nation!"

Southern Pacific Legacy Scale Fairbanks Morse H-24-66 Train Master Diesel in the classic bloody nose red on grey. It looks like Lionel produced these at one time, but I can't find any used or new.

I remember them pulling the San Francisco Peninsula commuter trains when I was a teenager (late 60's early 70's). Boxy looking locomotive but a piece of interesting history. They were terrible things to service!!

I’d like to see an O scale version of the ALCO HH660 high hood switcher.  Many railroads had them.  Atlas has made an HO version for years.  I’ll take mine in Boston and Maine and Maine Central liveries, please.

It has been 7 months since I posted this, but my "wish list" has not changed:

"At this stage in my life there are no items I "need", and very few I want since nearly everything is a reissue.  I guess maybe:

- Burlington Northern SD40-2 in Bicentennial colors and cab #1876.  I can run this with my Lionel Legacy BN U30 #1776 just like the real American Freedom Train did, pulling my AFT consist.

- Additional Friendship Train boxcars, but only if they fix the trucks.  However, there are plenty of photos on the web of cars with placards that were on the FT, and many would be easy to duplicate.

- Typing the above reminded me I would like to see replacement trucks for those terrible ones that came with the FT cars and some others.  (I'd use different words but I don't want this deleted).

Who knows, they may come up with something new that I may want, like the horse car they just did."

Lionel F19 after operating @john f penca jr's model.  I remember flipping through the catalog on Lionel's website when in grade school and being mesmerized by the feed water heater detailing.

The remainder of the American Freedom cars...

@booker110 posted:

The remainder of the American Freedom cars...

That use to be on my wish list, but I don't think it will ever happen.  Didn't want to waste a wish.

I do think a 2-pack of car #200 (Power/bunk car) and one of the storage cars (33 or 34) is doable since they have the molds.  Or maybe a 3-pack with both storage cars.

They could also use their current production longest flatcar and HW baggage car for the 3 flatcars and tool car. They would be short but acceptable.  The wagons for the flatcars would need to be made.

The issue is making the most important cars; the two Showcase Cars.  I think a lot of folks would be happy if they just did these two.  Problem is they will need new tooling and would only be useful for this application, an expensive endeavor (maybe scale mint/aquarium car?).

Anyway, I hope YOUR wish comes true.

Once again I’m going to ask that Lionel will pick up Lima’s scale length British Railways Mk-1 coaches and issue them in BR colors (although I won’t hold my breath).

i would like to see Lionel Legacy New Haven PA-1s in the new Haven’s factory-delivered orange with silver stripes and green roof or the New Haven’s Hunter Green and yellow stripes paint.

I would also be interested in seeing Lionel’s Hall class 4-6-0 in British Railways green and black with coaches either in cream and brown or maroon with gold striping. Many of us still like Harry Potter but having a 4-6-0 or coaches in standard BR colors won’t tread on Wizarding World’s copyrights. Selling a BR  painted Hall class might also appeal to those with Harry Potter sets whose original HP ten-wheelers have gone toes-up as replacement engines.

I suspect that Lionel fans with tight curves might like to see a streamlined corrugated-side Railway Post Office car for their pre-Amtrak passenger trains.

I also wonder how Milwaukee Road fans would react to seeing Lionel’s post-war “Virginian” rectifier electrics in the Milwaukee Road’s orange and black freight scheme. Enough to pull out their charge cards?

Maybe the Y6 will make an appearance, or the 844. Hopefully not both at the same time, haha. I would be okay with a pass if there was nothing that interested me, but that really doesn't happen often if at all.

It would be awesome if Lionel produced a C-Liner set in Illinois Central Brown and Orange livery with Yellow line highlights sporting the IC Diamond logo.

I would definitely add those to my roster!

any idea the day of catalog release?

lionel has been really silent lately no workbench wednesday , no demos with dave

i miss the guys

Based on recent history, it should be around the middle of July.  So in about 3 or 4 weeks from now.  

Another run of the PRR M1a locomotives. I know they're in the queue, per Ryan, at the Amherst Train Show this year.

Pat

MP-54 MU cars in LIRR and Pennsy even PC — MTH did them maybe 8 years ago — so did Lionel but not in LIRR — 3rd rail did them best maybe 15-20 years ago but only in Tuscan scheme for LIRR