New Lionel & K-Line Catalog Covers NOW on Lionel Website

[Warburton]

Check 'em out. Countdown clock is ticking there, too!

[Railfan1]

Thanks

[Andrew Falconer]

If Lionel is investing in new tooling for the Milwaukee Bi-Polar, would they make the Milwaukee Road Horizontally Ribbed Caboose to match?

Andrew

[laz 57]

Heres the site.

http://www.lionel.com/

laz57

[1688torpedo]

 Hello All!      As long as Lionel comes out with more prewar tinplate; I'll be happy Take Care.

[Anonymous]

 Hello All!      As long as Lionel comes out with more prewar tinplate; I'll be happy Take Care.

Kieth,

  You didn't look close enough.  Didn't you see those 2 repainted 381E's on the front cover?

Bruce Webster

[1688torpedo]

 Hello All!    Bruce- I saw the Bi-Polars on the front cover. However, they are not 381Es as they are too detailed. Nice try though! That's almost like saying the vehicle shown on the Superstreets is a Corvair that can change into another vehicle at the push of a button. & is powered by Grits as well. Take Care.

[brianel027]

This is a great marketing gimmick by Lionel to get everyone all excited about the new catalogs. And maybe not so much here but over on the other forum, there are already mile long threads over what should and better be in the catalog. It's a little bit like when we were all kids and waiting for the latest "wish book" to come in the mail or to head to the local train shop to get one. Only now many who are writing these long threads are adults who get very upset over the potential prospect of any "toy" trains being in the catalog and taking away from what they now want. Funny how little has changed for so many... demaning at age 8, still demanding at age 58.

I've save my excitement for when I actually see what's in the catalogs. I'll never understand the constant whinning from many of the scale guys, when if fact, so much of the catalogs are already aimed and geared to them... I guess the sky is never enough. I'll be happy if in the 2 single typical pages of affordable entry level cars, there is something with a current roadname.

Same goes for the K-Line/Lionel catalog. For most of K-Line's original run, they caterered to the tradtional, non-scale 027 operator. For the minority of their years, which in part led to their end, they catered to the high end. We'll see which group Lionel decides to aim their efforts at. Hopefully both, and hopefull with more than just a token offering to the group of 027 buyers that got K-Line started in the first place, and supported them for many years before the scale guys would even look. By the way, us non-scale027 guys did something the scale guys in later years wouldn't do... we paid near list for trains we REALLY wanted!!! Not blowout prices and then cried because the company failed.

If Lionel wanted a winning ticket, the affordable MARX 027 cars would be there in full force as would the popular S-2 Alco 027 switcher. Remeber it was guys like me buying trains like these that got K-Line going, like it or not. The TRUE loyal long-term K-Line buyers are ALL 027 guys!!!

[Anonymous]

 Hello All!    Bruce- I saw the Bi-Polars on the front cover. However, they are not 381Es as they are too detailed. Nice try though! That's almost like saying the vehicle shown on the Superstreets is a Corvair that can change into another vehicle at the push of a button. & is powered by Grits as well. Take Care.

Kieth,

Too detailed?  I could rivet count those Bi-Polars to death...or at least back to the pre-war era were they belong.  They look like a vision JLC had one night when he was visited by the ghosts of A.C.Gilbert, Louis Marx and Ives.  Can't you see all the solder joints and paint runs?  They'd better be equipped with Build-A-Loco motors if they expect to have any sales at all!

The new Superstreets Corvair better have TMCCII as well or I'm not buying any more! The one I have now runs too good to be a Corvair and will not flip onto it's roof like it's supposed to.  I want all the realistic features such as the non-working horn, the excessive oil leaks and the overheating engine. 

Hey, I can dream too, can't I? hehehe

Bruce Webster

[Andrew Falconer]

The staff at LIONEL are very conservative when putting roadnames on the Traditional O Gauge O-27 and O-31 freight cars.

It would be great for everyone if the Waffle-Sided Boxcar is available for SOUTHERN Railway and Norfolk Southern this year.

I hope the original Open-Frame Auto Carrier is eventually available in CP, CN, GTW, L&N, IC, ICG, and UP graphics to make a belivable post 1960 auto carrier train for O Gauge.

I hope the Auto Carrier with Corrugated Screens are available with Seaboard Coast Line and SOUTHERN graphics & colors so there is a geographic balance in roadnames.

The Articulated Spine Flat Car, or ARC-5, can be produced in Conrail and Santa Fe paint schemes with matching Conrail and Santa Fe trailers.

Andrew

[1688torpedo]

 Hello All!    Bruce- Maybe You Can build a Model Corvair & Motorize it so it can run on Superstreets with a Smoke Generator & Simulated Flames also just in case a PWC Corvair is not made this year? The Chief & Jim Duda might want you to make some for them also so they can re-live their glory days. Take Care.

[SchemerBob]

One thing I'm looking forward to seeing are the SD70ACe's. While I know that they will have the UP Heritage units, I'm hoping they'll have one painted in BNSF, too. I'd rather have a good-working Lionel with LOUD RailSounds, rather than an MTH that only works fine for a month then busts and whose road number is inaccurate . I was just about ready to buy one of their's, too. I think I made a good choice to wait!