With all the hype of the upcoming Lionel Vision Line UP Big boy, its MSRP of $2699, street price of a bit less than $2000 (for now), and the fact that I am going to sell ALL of my HO collection to get them, I would like to see some great features in addition to what Lionel had advertised. It is not too late for Lionel's engineers and their manufacturing in china to add some stuff of these wishes considering a delivery date of about Dec 2014.
Here is what I would like to see in it:
1. More intricately and separately applied details to surpass MTH or Lionel past Big boys, just a few more. There are so many that can easily be added on, so let us know what you guys want.
2. the same draw bar system as in their S3 steam engine (if they don't have it already) to keep the tender as close as possible to the loco.
3. sprung trucks on the loco and the tender such as in brass models.
4. Sprung trucks on the driving wheels such as in brass models.
5. More realistic crew talk based on that era. I DO EXPECT it to be cab number specific! it better be. 
6. Bigger smoke fluid tanks so we don't have to fill them in as often, how about one big tank for all the smoke systems?
7. A wooden display case like Precision craft models did on their HO brass models a while back.
8. Dare I say, 3-2 rail conversion capable?
9. Dare I say again, DCC ability...why not? MTH has done it for years, Lionel can do it too....
10. This one follows, Scale wheels model option?
11. Serialized model numbers for each cab number.
12. The steam whistle effect should come out of the whistle itself, not a hole under it.
12. I can think of many more, but let's hear what you guys want too...
This is for fun and to explore what we customers would like to see. So please take it easy and have some wishful thinking, may be they will listen!!!
