Ok, I guess the top 5 thing is getting old but here is my list of "hopes and dreams" so to speak. Ok, I guess my list is short but I am shure whatever Lionel comes out with next I will like anyway.
1. Traditional sized Southern Railroad #4501 2-8-2 Mikado in Virginia green and gold stripes.
2. Lionel 726 Berkshire with updated can motors in loco and an air whistle with can motor. They don't have to reproduce the old electric motors, just "update their postwar releases to keep the price down. At least to me anyway.
Give me steam locomotives or give me DEATH!
Berkshire Junction, bringing fourth the cry of the Iron Horse since 1900.
1. 736 Berkshire (like the Williams clone).
2. North Shore Line standard interurban cars. The "right" size, and they really did go around 027 curves.
3. Russian decapod. A "right sized" locomotive that has a following here in Chicago.
Virginian Railroad
I would like to see a smaller and affordable version of the Acela!
Jim
1) a Northern Pacific Z-8 Challenger 4-6-6-4 with centipede tender please
2) Northern pacific northern Class A through A-5!
3) a set of F3a or F7 A-B-A Northern Pacific scale in Raymond Lowey two tone green Passenger paint scheme.
4) A scale USRA Heavy Mikado with add on details and decals to make your own engine to fit your prototype railroad.
5) How about a N&W John Henry! that would be so cool....
Oh and keep up with the Odessy, railsounds 5.0, all the crew chit chat and lots of smoke and operator noise please! this should be a made to order option anyway....
In my opinion her's what would be nice to see:
1. An Amtrak Genesis (Conventional and Legacy), Lionel's long overdue
2. Ohio Central #6325 (a die cast model as compared to 3rd Rail's upcoming model)
3. B&O Cincinnatian Passenger Set (with the steam locomotive)
4. variations on prewar models (like a tinplate hudson or berkshire)
5. in the Thomas & Friends line: a detailed model of The Flying Kipper (the one from Henry's wreck)
theres more that could be put, but I don't want to ramble on. Lol.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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A live steam engine with whistle and a trailing car that you can make coffee with from the engines boiler.
A cogged center rail and a cog drive sprocket under the engine so my Lionel 4-4-2s can pull a 40 car train of cars up my unrealistic 3%+ grade with an "S" curve in the middle. I bet a cog drive engine could have a pulling force greater than its weight.
Onboard accellerometers, sensors and computer that store a memory of the layout and automatically slows down the engine on or before curves to prevent flying off the layout.
Tenders and caboose's with braking features for descending hills.
GPS tracking for any engine $500 or higher so you can find it in case its stolen.
Modeling the "Fargo Area Rapid Transit" in O scale 3 rail.
Boyd wrote: A live steam engine with whistle and a trailing car that you can make coffee with from the engines boiler.A cogged center rail and a cog drive sprocket under the engine so my Lionel 4-4-2s can pull a 40 car train of cars up my unrealistic 3%+ grade with an "S" curve in the middle. I bet a cog drive engine could have a pulling force greater than its weight.Onboard accellerometers, sensors and computer that store a memory of the layout and automatically slows down the engine on or before curves to prevent flying off the layout.Tenders and caboose's with braking features for descending hills.GPS tracking for any engine $500 or higher so you can find it in case its stolen.
Boyd......at last, a practical visionary. Add to your list refrigerated tankers to haul and dispense beer so an operating session isn't interrupted.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
RockIsland52 wrote: Boyd wrote: A live steam engine with whistle and a trailing car that you can make coffee with from the engines boiler.A cogged center rail and a cog drive sprocket under the engine so my Lionel 4-4-2s can pull a 40 car train of cars up my unrealistic 3%+ grade with an "S" curve in the middle. I bet a cog drive engine could have a pulling force greater than its weight.Onboard accellerometers, sensors and computer that store a memory of the layout and automatically slows down the engine on or before curves to prevent flying off the layout.Tenders and caboose's with braking features for descending hills.GPS tracking for any engine $500 or higher so you can find it in case its stolen. Boyd......at last, a practical visionary. Add to your list refrigerated tankers to haul and dispense beer so an operating session isn't interrupted. Jack
Holy smokes well why stop there then!?
1) a microwave box car that can make popcorn on the fly - great for the club get together
2) a battery charging car for regenerating your cab 1 batteries
3) The flat screen TV box car so football can be played while running trains
4) The ebay monitor / cab 1 that can search/bid for the latest TMCC engine wile adjusting the speed of your trains
5) The LCD back drop that can change while your trains run through different scenery...hmm no make it a hologram so it can travel through 3-D scenery
6)a close 5th... a diesel locomotive that can take Mpeg or jpeg high resolution pics so they can be downloaded and displayed here. wireless of course!
7) another close 5th. a work caboose with a nice speaker system you can plug your I-pod into and play music while you work on the rail road....
8) and another close 5th... ditch the Cab one and make the layout voice command!
iI would like to seem more engines with the LONG ISLAND ROAD NAME that are affordable. It seems that anytime I see these up for auction on ebay you have to pay a premium for them.
John
One of the things I wanted Lionel to make was a BNSF SD70ACe. Since they have (yaaay!) and I have it on order, here are the other things Lionel could make that would be cool.
1) An Amtrak Genesis diesel, preferably scale-sized with Legacy and RailSounds. Since they've never made one before, I don't really care what paint scheme, just as long as its Amtrak!
2) A new version of their Dash 8-32BWH in the Amtrak Phase V paint scheme with Legacy, and flashing ditch lights!
3) Some more BNSF units, maybe a Dash 9 or SD70MAC painted in the Heritage III scheme
4) A Dallas DART light rail train, with special variable horn control - pull halfway, the electronic whistle sounds, pull all the way, the horn sounds - and once touch bell "ding ding" sounds. How about opening doors, changing station names on the destination boards, and station anouncements? THAT would be awesome. And they should have it be the "Super" light rail train with the extra car in the center. I'd buy one of those in a second!
5) Maybe some new introductory diesels, or new paint schemes on existing models, like a Santa Fe "bluebonnet" GP20, etc. And maybe they could equip some of them with TrainSounds?
Steam engines with smoke that comes out of the cylinders upon startup and then stops while the engine is running at a good clip. And an engineer that you can actually see opening up the throttle inside the engines cab while accelerating and a fireman that moves also as he turns valves on the boiler and shovels coal from the tender into the firebox. It could be called "Interactive crewman". Lionel, are you listening to this idea?!!!! Smoke that comes out of the turbo generators and high pressure smoke that comes out of the whistle everytime you blow it!!!! And have it to where the Interactive fireman can open up the firebox door and you can see a modeled glowing white hot burning coal load inside the firebox and some of that fabric fire and have a miniature fan that will blow air up inside the fire box slower when the engine is at idle and blow the fabric fire up higher when the engine is moving fast. And also when the bell rings, the bell should should swing too, if the bell on that locomotive is supposed to swing. Lionel, are you listening????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about making the Petticoat Junction Train.... and the station too...
Or the post(civil)war train from the Wild Wild West.
1) A sheet metal 4-6-4 Commodore Vanderbuilt (ie. tinplate)
2) A tinplate S type electric or at least something with twin motors or a 6 wheel motor.
3) A streamlined P5A with a diecast shell and postwar style motor/drive.
4) A PRR Decapod in Lionmaster line.
5) Something in Conrail colors
1) Legacy equipped scale Delaware & Hudson Sharknose AA Set
2) Lionel should start producing undecorated locomotives like Atlas and Weaver. I'd like to see an undecorated scale S2.
Top five eh?
Here's mine!
1. 1688 Torpedo
2. 1668 Torpedo
3. 238E Torpedo
4. 1689E Commodore Vanderbuilt
5. 224E in Gunmetal! I know a lucky fellow with one!
All of the above have never been reproduced by anyone & would be worthy additions to one's collection! Take Care.
Bob Nelson
Conventional Classic 773 Hudson
Standard O Burlington Northern F3
That's all I can afford, that's all I want.
Big Walnut Railroader wrote:After thinking about it, I realized there was one thing not added as of yet. One thing Lionel might consider producing is an affordable Legacy starter set. Back in 2001 (I think thats the right year) Lionel made a New Haven Command Control starter set. Perhaps we could see a Legacy one in the future? Here's hoping.
A LIONEL LEGACY equiped NYC HUDSON. With ALL the bells and whistles.
laz57
laz 57 wrote: A LIONEL LEGACY equiped NYC HUDSON. With ALL the bells and whistles.laz57
Hmmm...in scale size you could get me to buy that one!!!!
Here is my vote for what I would like to see:
1.) A model of Southern 4501 (2-8-2)
2.) A model of Southern 1401 (4-6-2)
3.) A model of Southern 1516 (0-4-2)
4.) A model of Southern 4002 (2-6-8-0)
5.) A model of Southern 1380 (4-6-2) Streamlined version.
I think the 4002 would be a good one to make a semi scale that can run on O31.
So many scales, so many trains, so little time.....
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