I still wish to have a Legacy Berk, including one with enhanced but less ambitious tooling changes. If a Legacy PE Berk was added to expand the range of choices to obtain a more economically viable production run, then fine.
My repeated previous discussions with Ryan at York tend to indicate that that they (Lionel) would not be up for a substantial modification of the tooling and additional parts to obtain a line of upgraded heavyweights with interiors. Heck, it is difficult to get Lionel to catalog and do runs of new heavyweights of the current design, even with generalized Pullman decoration. The notion of interiors for the heavyweights has been brought with various Lionel product teams 'forever'. The cost-driven decision to go with the design and tooling of the heavies was decided back during the Wagner (TRW)/Kawala product development regime ... a discussion I vividly recall from about 13 years ago. As desirable as it might be (and, I would be delighted to be proven wrong), I would not hold out much hope for any extensive design changes for the heavies.
Bob
