Lionel is still making new tooling in fairly substantial dollar amounts, according to the latest Matt and Matt podcast's interview with Ryan Kunkle. Perhaps that's your best hope. Email Ryan Kunkle at Lionel, and ask your friends, relatives and enemies who want McKeen cars to do the same. He's pretty responsive to large volumes of consumer requests is my guess, and is a keen (pun intended) fan of oddball railroad prototypes. I'd think this qualifies and would be a good seller just because it's different. I'm wanting the one in NYC lightning stripe or the New Haven in McGinnis colors, personally (insert howls of indignation from those who hate fantasy schemes ).
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