Lionel amtrak

I have not heard Lionel has announced any new Amtrak stuff other than the Lionchief  passenger set in the 2014 Ready to Run Catalog.

 

Since Amtrak itself has just introduced its new ACS-64 engine on the NEC, I hope that Lionel will step up and make a Legacy model of the new power.

 

Tony

Up on "The D & H Bridge Line" in Colonie, NY

I'm Hoping they make the E8s in the "Bloody Nose" scheme.  With first generation Amtrak diesels you can mix and match the cars.

 

Tom

Second the motion for the bloody nose scheme. I was just looking at my cars the other day thinking it would be cool to run them in a rainbow consist. Maybe even throw in a couple of mismatched B units as well. Would make for a great early 70s railroading scene.

I sooooo want a Lionel first generation Amtrak E-8 set to pull my scale Atlas passenger cars.

I'd like to be included in the,"bloody nose" bunch. Folks can say what they want. There's just something about that look. I may be a tinplate kinda guy, however, we all have our soft spots.

The bloody-nose scheme is iconic, I agree, but I'd rather have models of and in the Phase V scheme.  We rode the Silver Star up to Baltimore from Cary NC yesterday and when those two big PD42s rumbled in alongside the platform it made me remember how much I'd like to have a set and some cars to go with them.   Legacy, of course.

If you're into Superliners, a few years ago Lionel offered a beautiful seven car set that included a RS dining car. 

Problem is they never offered a decent engine to go with it.

I ended up buying a MTH P-3 Amtrak F40PH thats perfect for the Superliners and for the years I model but because the cars are aluminum, big and heavy, its not capable of pulling all seven cars.

Joe 

In the last 10 years, the only scale Amtrak offering from Lionel has been the Acela. Really nice when it works, but thats it. Sure they made the HHP-8 set that was better than a starter set, but it wasn't scale and it wasn't full featured. I'm not counting the abomination that was the Dash 9, or the over scale Dash 8. That being said, it obviously appears to not be at the top of their totem pole. E's might be the best hope, but I see no point in making them in Phase I, given that MTH has made them not once, but twice, in the last 5 years. I'd much rather see them done in phase II:

Which hasn't been done since Weaver did it in the early 90s... and it'd be nice if they put the right trucks under the E9's if they were going to do it.

A black GG1 would also be nice. 

The one I know will never happen but I'd love to see is an SDP40F, so instead I'm just going to join the Phase V bandwagon...  my rainbow train is already done.

 

 

 

Since Lionel has gone on this kick of making long cars, maybe, and this is a huge longshot maybe, they'll finally be the ones to put 21" am fleets on the market. There's something like 9 possible paint schemes, so it should be plenty of re-run potential, and with the articulated coupler they'd run on smaller layouts, but since they can't ship passenger cars from the catalog 2 years ago, I doubt it.