Lionel 2015 Volume 1 Predictions

Indeed, if Lionel produced multiple road-numbers, I'd buy multiple units.

 

When Lionel produces multiple road-number diesels, they typically run a prototype road-number powered unit PLUS a fictitious road-number powered unit, and yet another fictitious road-number as a dummy unit.  In that case, I would buy all three of these.

 

When MTH produced their NS Heritage locomotives, they took a different approach -- offering a powered AND dummy in the same road-number, so that folks collecting ALL heritage locomotives could do so true to the prototype without spending big bucks for all powered units.  In that case, I'd probably just purchase the one powered unit and forgo the dummy.

 

David

No more please..... I have enough to pick up! 

Love to see the long ago promised B units for the CC 2343 and 2344 F3 sets,  but they will not be there...not now...not ever !

There you go again Frank, making me salivate on another one of your creations, I am a sucker for any fantasy PRR engine or a B&O Blue and gray without all the flags and flourishes.

would be nice to see more items geared toward females of all ages.

The Texas Special ES44AC.............

 

Regards,

Swafford

The 65% of there O gauge diesel locomotive Models will NOT be accurate....

Now that. THAT is a good idea. I still need an intermodal crane, but if Lionel would do it again this way, then that would making something already great even better!

How about some more decent tank cars. More realistic ones that are heavy in weight.

Swafford,

I like what you did with the Texas Special. Could you please do something similar with the N&W ES44ace or SD70. The solid blue scheme with black trucks seems to be lacking

any character.

Regards Trainman 5

My long-lasting request to Lionel: More Amtrak items! Still waiting for a decent scale Amtrak Legacy locomotive. A Genesis or F40 would be great. They have the tooling for the Dash 8, I wouldn't mind that, either. Maybe Lionel could go out on a limb and make some of the new Viewliners that are just being released.

 

I second the request for an NS Veterans diesel. Lionel's made the SD60 before, all they have to do is make the "Crescent" cab and there you go. It better have an accurate RS5T horn like the prototype - that thing is a killer!

That would mean that they would have ALUMINUM body tank cars produced, similar to the K-Line Tank Cars.  

Nice to see another TS simmer!  

I would like to see a traditional sized articulated like a 2-6-6-2 mallet for us guys with smaller layouts and tighter curves.

Good Day Trainman, 

 

Here are some engines that I painted several years ago. The SD70ACe was to honor the N&W 611.

 

Regards,

Swafford  

yes sir now that's what I'm talking about


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Really good looking, Swafford.

 

I agree with J Daddy. The Allegheny is due & if you remember it came out at the same time originally as the BB back in the late 90's & hasn't been re-made since 2005. Would think that would be the next VL Steamer. Also due is to catch up on all the Station Sound cars that were not made over the last 5 or so years.

Not a lot of predictions, mostly a wish list is what I see posted.  Most of which will never see the light of day.  I think it is a safe prediction that Lionel will produce more Lionchief Plus locomotives.  Anybody can run them without a big expense and they are good value for the money.  I do think that a LC+ Pennsy K-4 will show up at some point. 

Prediction (and wish list):

 

Lionel will continue to milk the Polar Express Franchise, and release a vista dome streamliner passenger car add-on to the streamliner diesel set.  However, I don't know when they announce PE stuff, may come later in the year (newbie here, sorry). 

I predict that they will offer a Chessie System three-bay, open-top hopper in the wrong color scheme, to make everybody wait until the next catalog for the right color scheme.

 

Andrew

My predictions for 2015.....................SD70ACe in UP, BNSF & KCS!.......and UP SD90MAC!

 

 

 fridge56vet - just for fun - if they really wanted to ""milk"" the polar express franchise they could make it in O gauge tinplate - a makeover of a late '30's engine and train - what do you think - i think the "polar people" would go nut's

 

Rdeal

On A More Serious Note: this is not a prediction but something i would like to see and probably would buy if my "checkbook" said, "okay." a bit of background information - when i was ten, mid-fifties i spent the summer with two of my great aunts who lived in a third floor flat in the center of brookhaven, miss - a favorite thing for me to do was to sit on the fire escape and watch the illinois central, "City of New Orleans"- unload and load passengers - on more than one occasion we took the train to Jackson and return - 

 

so, a tinplate "City of New Orleans" would be a fun, nostalgic and interesting tinplate set to run on my "up coming" layout - What do you think??

 

Rdeal

 

 

notch 6 just announced that the Lionel 2015 volume one catalog pod cast 

will be released around 9 am Feb 2, 2015!!!

New tooled streamline passenger cars.

I sincerely hope for a CSX starter set.  I had at least 6 people ask me where to get one this past Christmas. A LC + wouldn't be bad either.

Charlie when will you have all the 2015 items on your website. Thank You

ETA 2030

Legacy version of the 2-8-0s. The 4-6-0s have been upgraded to Legacy, these should be coming next. If not this catalog, because of the others being due, then in the next.

I am surprised that a Milwaukee Road black/orange scheme hasn't been done on the scale Legacy GP7/9s, regardless of prototypical accuracy.

 

Dave 

This in ten different road numbers. Well maybe three.

 

 

"New tooled streamline passenger cars."

 

Charlie, I would say that is very good news for those interested in passenger cars. It has been a long time in coming. Look forward to the new Signature Catalog with greater interest now.

So the REAL question though is "When will the new tooling kick in?".  Lionel already has announced close to a dozen passenger cars sets in the last few years that they are only now just starting to deliver.

 

The CZ has come and gone... and now for the most part quietly forgotten.  No new tooling there to speak of -- aside from perhaps more detailed underbodies, but Lionel is gonna have trouble giving those away due to other glaring issues.   

 

The N&W Pocahontas set is "on deck" for early February, and I recall a post several weeks back by somebody who seemed reasonably impressed with those cars via preview pictures sent to him by Mike R of Lionel.  And I think the MKT Texas Special cars are due in March/April (which are on my wish list ), with lots more sets presumably to follow much later in 2015.  Will any of these have "the new tooling"?

 

I'm hoping 2015 is also the year that we see the return of StationSounds diners, since so many sets since 2010 were announced without them.    So let's hope good thoughts!!!

 

David

 

If Lionel does offer newly tooled streamlined passenger cars I hope they are 21".  What are the odds?

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I realize that the first of the USRA Heavy Mikes are still not here, but I would opt to see Lionel issue that engine in Milwaukee Road.  After all, it was the Milwaukee that ordered and ran 100 copies of that engine, more than any other RR that had them.  So, to see that engine coming out would make some serious adjusting of my train budget become a necessity.

 

Paul Fischer

 

 

The UP yellow Milwaukee Road cars were issued around the same time that Lionel did the UP Yellow version of the Bi-Polar engine. I purchased both the engine and 21" cars and personally like them, but yellow is my favorite color anyway.

 

I don't see the 21" yellow cars come up for auction very often, but the GN blue are always out there. Personally, I never liked the GN blue and much prefer the green and orange combo.

 

I still doubt that Lionel will introduce a line of 21" cars with it's next catalog.