"Lionel trains are the standard of the world" - Jousha Lionel Cowen
Well,
That stinks. I wish they would release it the first of the year, like Hornby with their 00 (Slightly larger than HO, maybe 1:76, but runs on HO track. ) trains in England. MTH releases their catalog in December or November. I know I've had my 2008 volume 1 for quite some time now.
Cheese
Nick! :)
Lionel usually releases their Vol. 1 catalog around late January/early February (I think it's been late Jan. the last couple of years). MTH also releases their RTR catalog around the same time frame, if memory serves.
- Clint
I want to see photos of the Flying Yankee set and the 736 powered PWC set from 2007. I wonder what retro sets they will offer this year.
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
That is what I want to see what Prewar and Postwar Celebration series sets they have coming as well as the $2,000 engines. I guess we will have to wait!
I hope that there are some later Prewar models being offered again someday like a 226E or 763E.
I am hoping for a Hogwarts Express addition like another passenger car. My wife would like to see an observation type end of the train car. I just don't know enough about the British trains to know if that is how they work. I have seen separate Hogwarts passenger cars available; however I would like to avoid having cars with the same number. Picky, I know, but what the heck? The set is just a joy to run!
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I'd like to see modern AF 312, 322, and 342 engines since they have done the challenger.
I'd like to see some prewar cars with honest prewar operating box couplers (I know no chance on that one).I'd like to see(if I don't get it built first) would be a set of the Ives/Lionel 1685/6/7 passenger cars in the two tone green like the 2640, 2440 and late 2613 series cars. I'd like them with late sixwheel trucks with box couplers and a nice gunmetal grey 225E or 226E with a diecast tender to go with them. I finally have a set of cars to restore but the trucks seem to be more difficult to find at a reasonable price! Oh well, I have time!
Wow! Nice to see some others with an interest in prewar reproductions. Let's hope the big "L" is reading this!
P.S. Hey, Lionel: A Standard gauge set with a 384E or 390E steamer would be nice to have.
Well.......It's not really the 2008 Volume I Lionel catolog, it's the "Wish Book". We won't see the engines until late 2010.
Reuben
Train Memories wrote: Well.......It's not really the 2008 Volume I Lionel catolog, it's the "Wish Book". We won't see the engines until late 2010. Reuben
prewardude wrote: P.S. Hey, Lionel: A Standard gauge set with a 384E or 390E steamer would be nice to have.
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I agree...the 736 Super O set is cherry. No doubt about it. I also like the Prewar Flying Yankee set. That one has not been released yet as well.
It appears that the very early Prewar items have been brought back but not the later stuff. We do need to see a 226E with some 2600 bakelite cars. What the heck, if they made Standard Gauge I would buy that too.
We need solid Prewar staples back in the line. Standard Gauge is not my cup of tea but I'd still go ape over a 400E in blue n' brass.
prewardude wrote:P.S. Hey, Lionel: A Standard gauge set with a 384E or 390E steamer would be nice to have.
Dude how about a 394E w/ Girard cars. Thats tight.
I'd like to see(if I don't get it built first) would be a set of the Ives/Lionel 1685/6/7 passenger cars in the two tone green
I believe MTH now owns the Ives name.. So I don't think you'll see those cars made by Lionel.
So, you mean Lionel ( I mean what ever CHinese mfr they use) could not backwards engineer the cars and put Lionel on them like MTH has been doing with tinplate for the past twenty years? I think they could. I was unaware of MTH having the Ives name now, too bad about that....but I don't care if the Ives name is on the cars, afterall there were uncatologed versions with Lionel and also with Ives, Heck the cars were made in the 30's well after Lionel took control of Ives, so I'm pretty sure they truely Lionel back in the day, they just never made it to the catalog.
I don't mean to be gruff, but, if MTH can backwards engineer trains, everyone else should be able to as well especially if they were the original maker!
Certainly Lionel can make the very same trains. Just look at the Williams Line. But somehow, and I don't know the details, MTH got the Ives Name and is using it on a Standard Gauge set.
I'm like you, the one postwar passenger set I was missing was the UP 50th Anniversary. When Williams put it out I jumped on it. The cars say Luxury Lines instead of Lionel Lines but that didn't matter to me.
Its all good, MTH is making the Ives 1694 engine that was made to go with the cars originally and also the cars, but in the std colors. Don't get me wrong, the std colors are fine, but I seem to really like the two tone green, green calms me down.
Don't get me wrong, the std colors are fine, but I seem to really like the two tone green, green calms me down.
You should talk to Mike Wolf at York about that. Conventional wisdom is that reproductions should only be made in original colors, but MTH has made SG in new color schemes with some success. Mike believes he's dealing with a new batch of Tin Plate Operators and not just conventional collectors. That segment of the hobby, although small, is growing. I bug him every six months for a modification State Passenger Cars into a Standard Gauge Lo-V Subway set.
Of course, I have an ulterior motive since I produce an SG Subway El.
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