Banjo
I think there is a reason that we have never seen a rerelease F9 from Lionel/American Flyer - and that is just fine by me, I have seen them in person at train shows and never had a desire I pick one up. IF that tooling is still around, I hope it is nothing more than a paper weight for Lionel.
I want the Baldwin with FC/BT. If Lionel can fit it into the docksider, then they could certainly get it into the Baldwin. I know it’s not a faithful copy of the VO1000, but I really dig it. The last run of Baldwin’s I think were in production before the “let’s go all LionChief/FlyerChief” mentality took over at Lionel. I am going to guess, that since they did not sell well, we might see a break before Lionel produces them again. (Even though, in my opinion, they were a lack luster offering when everything else in the catalog had FC and BT). And I DO think a Baldwin RTR set is the way to go.
Lionel has stated that they are done with conventional sets. All LC from now on (and I think it’s smart). If the Baldwins had the FC/BT capabilities I would have been all over my normal road names.
As for the mikados and pacifics, I don’t think we will see them again, I can not see Lionel paying the tooling cost all over again to make something that is already in the market (even if they are getting harder to find - that mikado was wonderful!).
I guess there is the possibility of a FC Challenger?
I would like to see some of the PAs with BT, but again, Lionel just run the largest single cataloged batch, and there was a decent flow of them before the 2017 catalog as well.
We should only have another month or so before we know what’s in store for 2018 and American Flyer.
MTH who???!?
Ben
