Reply to "It's a Boy! 2023 Visionline Loco is a Big Boy"

@rthomps posted:

I think breezinup hit the nail.

As others have said ... Lionel will build what their management team feels will sell.

This loc will sell.

They will build what the "investment" team thinks will yield a profit.

You'd have to sell twice as many $1500 hudsons vs $3000 bigboys. There's probably little difference in the Chinese build cost.

Having said that. They need to add the Ed Dickens foamer deterrent blow down? pipe that shoots steam from the engineers side of the loco.