Here’s my story of the Vision Line 700E:
When it was first catalogued, I thought it was silly. It made no sense to me why Lionel would reuse 70+ year old tooling in a modern Vision Line release. I associated VL with being top of the line highest detailing possible, which the 700E was not. When they started arriving and peoplesang their praises I didn’t get it. That was until earlier this year when I saw it IN PERSON for the first time at a train show. I fell in love with it which is funny considering I was always so hard on it. Long story short, the guy had a good price on it and I bought it. I don’t regret a thing as it is a wonderful engine to run.