I talked to Lionel a few weeks ago and was asking about their HO product line. I was expecting more assortment from their HO fastrack. If you were starting a new layout, you couldn’t do it with the fastrack. I like the concept of a Lionchief engine in HO scale and not have to figure out running a dcc system. Those of us that don’t have the room for a good size o scale layout might buy into running a ho layout with Lionchief. They’re fazing out their magna lock system and putting in fastrack in all their new sets. The fastrack looks good but doesn’t line up with some Kato HO track pieces I have left from my previous layout. The Lionel HO track looks good but its look slightly elevated from the Kato track. So, if one wanted to stay with fastrack, Lionel has to come out with fastrack switches and variations of their track. I don’t have a clue to where Lionel is going with this product line. Maybe, we’ll see another HO catalog for a fall release that will show more track product. But, for the time being it’s a non starter for me until I see how serious Lionel is about Lionchief in HO scale.
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