Cars you would like to see made?

[thor]

Lionel please make the Thomas troublesome trucks sans faces or that operating tipping short ore car that goes with the tinplate set in the latest catalog, or ANYTHING short - 2 axle - wheelbase and preferably tipping.

I, for one, really dont like bogied goods wagons and they take up so much space for very little use apart from looks. I run toy trains and I want to be able to play with them.  I'd build my own if I knew where I could get those wheelsets like the trucks mentioned but the troublesome trucks are too expensive to strip for parts.

Also short wheelbase clerestory coaches but not much hope there I suppose.  Surely there must have been some branch lines somewhere in the U.S, that used that sort of rolling stock.

 

[Dr. John]

I would like to see Lionel reintroduce its pre-war shorty passenger cars in tinplate.

For more modern stuff, I'd like to see more small diesels: an SW-1 and a 44 tonner with more realistic (though not necessarily scale) proportions.

[wallyworld]

My vote is for an operating RPO. A close second would be a interurban Class D steeplecab...perhaps third would be a Baldwin transfer engine..

[Boyd]

I would love to see a flexibeam flatcar made. Ones I have seen locally I think were 89 feet long. That would not be a car for 027 curves. Also there was a small article in the back of a trains magazine in the last 20 years about articulating hopper cars made or modified in Canada for hauling wheat on lines that had lighter rail. They only showed one picture of a bunch of them together. If memory serves me right they were modified by cutting in half, re-inforcing the frame and putting a 3rd truck in the middle.