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MartyE posted:

Always thought this was a good candidate for the PWC series.  Maybe someday?

Trolley

 

6-18431 was a pretty good update of the #60 trolley, but without the reversing pole feature.  Lionel has updated these a bit in the past couple years but I really think it's time for a new design, even if it's just a longer, double trucked version to compliment the old birney (hopefully still able to work with D-21 curves).  

What I'd really like to see is a LionChief + version of a new model with Railsounds.  Long overdue.  Even better if they included a feature where you press the station sounds button on the remote and the car will automatically pause, go through boarding/unboarding sounds, and then ring the bell and resume.  You should also hear the compressor cycle at idle.

My personal preference would be the Osgood Bradley electromobile, which ran in Scranton, Altoona, on the Queensboro Bridge, and in New Bedford (The ECTM in Scranton is restoring the last known example).  

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sigh, wishlist........

UP 4-8-2

TTG w/silver white, large stack oil burner with appropriately sized stripe band on extended Vandy tender to align with passenger cars.  A black coal burner too.  Used everywhere on UP system.

UP7855

UP 4-10-2

Late modification to 2 cylinder oil burning. Preferably #5097.  This type heavily used on the Cajon Pass.

up4-10-2

I'll hold my breath as I would more likely see a balanced budget or Michael Madigan lose a re-election before these get made.  

Wish list, indeed.

 

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WITZ 41 posted:

sigh, wishlist........

UP 4-8-2

TTG w/silver white, large stack oil burner with appropriately sized stripe band on extended Vandy tender to align with passenger cars.  A black coal burner too.  Used everywhere on UP system.

UP7855

UP 4-10-2

Late modification to 2 cylinder oil burning. Preferably #5097.  This type heavily used on the Cajon Pass.

up4-10-2

I'll hold my breath as I would more likely see a balanced budget or Michael Madigan lose a re-election before these get made.  

Wish list, indeed.

 

I'll gladly take a few of these also!

UP 2-10-2 would also be great-they had close to a 100 of them, I just want ONE!

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How about a proper AMTK Cascade?  MTH built the locomotive, why not recycle some of the Acela tooling plus the efforts made to correct the initial problems with Acela and adapt it for the Talgo?  Two axle Acela trucks located between cars, instead of the more prototype but also more problematic single axle bogie, and the shorter cars would mean that the Cascades could make it around tighter curves and, therefore, be appealing to more folks.

Amtrak-Cascades_Thorpe

 

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"How about a scale Legacy  version of Union Pacific's newest commemorative engine,  UP SD70ACH #1943(former #9026) just unveiled today in San Antonio.   @Dave Olson and @Conrail6358.   Come on Lionel,  let's get this one fast tracked into production.   As a USAF vet,  I WANT ONE.

Nick"

Thank you for your service! Don't worry - it's already there in the next catalog along with some other nice things to go with her.   

PS, we do check in on these threads from time to time and while I can't give you all every one of these, the 1943 isn't the only suggestion on this list that you'll see sometime soon. So feel free to keep the ideas coming.  

Conrail6358 posted:

"How about a scale Legacy  version of Union Pacific's newest commemorative engine,  UP SD70ACH #1943(former #9026) just unveiled today in San Antonio.   @Dave Olson and @Conrail6358.   Come on Lionel,  let's get this one fast tracked into production.   As a USAF vet,  I WANT ONE.

Nick"

Thank you for your service! Don't worry - it's already there in the next catalog along with some other nice things to go with her.   

PS, we do check in on these threads from time to time and while I can't give you all every one of these, the 1943 isn't the only suggestion on this list that you'll see sometime soon. So feel free to keep the ideas coming.  

Way to go Ryan and Lionel,  that's great news!   Thanks for your reply and for at least looking over these threads.   It's impossible to produce everything that everyone wants,  but I think that this engine will have a wide appeal.

Nick

Hebanator posted:
MartyE posted:

I'll play along...

How about a new C&O Streamlined Hudson.  It's been 1995 since we've seen this one.

COYB

I second that!!!!!

Would have to come with the "Chessie" dome cars.

What killed the MTH C&O Turbine sales was lack of the vista dome passenger train with domed Obs to go with it.

I would like some scale center beam cars with the diagonal bracing (not "opera window". These would likely use kinematic couplers due to their length and how far inboard the trucks sit. 

I second the Amtrak Cascades Talgo, but I would like to see it done correctly with the right trucks and other stuff. If you're going to spend the time and money on a new model, do it right.

If you would like some scale Center Beam Flat Cars then are you are asking for

Trinity Rail Car or

ARI American Railcar Industries or

Freight Car America or

Greenbrier/Gunderson/Trenton Works center beam flat cars?

 

National Steel Car sells Center Partition flat cars.

The models would need to have actual tie down belts for realistic wood loads that can be removed. 

 

Andrew

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