@Paul Kallus posted:Just checked out the links above for the L1 Mikado from 2022 catalog, had completely forgot about them, and saw the list price. With the understanding that the I1s are a bit larger, are there other factors in the large price difference ($500) between them? Both have whistle steam and I think both are "new" tooling acquired from MTH. This is a head scratcher...I can see $200 more for the I1s in just the overall size.
Indeed. Maybe the licensing costs for the I1 tooling were higher? I don’t know if the L1 was a “from scratch” effort like the I1 might have been?
That or Lionel kept the L1 price low and released it first, to snag more sales of both from people that wanted some diversity in their Lionel-built PRR freight locomotives and settled on the L1.
It’s unclear to me otherwise because while inflation has been a problem, it certainly hasn’t gotten that much worse in the last six months.
