If Lionel made the Frisco 1522 in Legacy would you purchase?

I would consider it

No.

Maybe, but I would rather opt for Lionel to do the NKP #587. This is just a personal nostalgic preference. Don't get me wrong, it is a pretty nice engine, and it would be nice if anyone made it at all.

Nice!  But not for me.

Maybe I would consider it if Lionel did it prototypically. 3rd. Rail is more likely to make it before Lionel.

YES................................

Yes, 1522 is a great locomotive and I have seen it in action.

No. It's a great engine with an interesting history as a steam era survivor. I'm surprised no one has made a model of it. BUT, I have too many trains already and at this point, the only locomotives I'm buying are Milwaukee Road or European.  

No, But I would like a Harriman Consolidation to be redone. Have the first one that they made in 2000, still runs like a champ.

Not doing the 1522 when she was operating was a missed opportunity by any one of the manufacturers.

Rusty

I'd buy one in a second.Lionel has the tooling for this one and has offered it in (Southern,WP and New Haven).It's basically a modernized USRA design.Lionel could easily offer this and a MOPAC version.All they would have to do is add RR specific brass details and as they are now very good at this. Of course most of you know I'd throw the cash down on any big Frisco,Missouri Pacific,KCS and Cotton Belt steam. I'm now discovering lots of overlooked large steam for RR's in the deep south and there's a lot!

The NC and StL "Dixie" 4-8-4 and Atlanta and West Point 4-8-4 come to mind.

No.

I would have said no, until I heard and saw the video of the 1522 running...

I really like the "steam boat" whistle.

Have to agree, this engine has a wonderful whistle.

The 1522 is on my list. I would buy one.

Not me.  My interest is in eastern roads.

Did get to see it run once, no to purchasing a model of it.

Yes. There are several examples of these Frisco 4-8-2's around (Mobile has one - in sad shape, though); Frisco gave several away. But, like the MoPac, the Frisco was mostly out in that Big, Anonymous Area that just generates little modeling interest. It did get as far East as Mobile and Pensacola (FL), but most of it was in the area that's not Western, not Midwestern, not Southern. Katy had the same problem.

So I'm not surprised about the kinda silly relative lack of interest - but I'd buy one.

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Boomer - the Frisco heavy 4-8-2's were indeed germinated from the USRA Heavy 4-8-2, but are quite different from them in many ways; they don't even have the USRA "look" - Frisco built the boilers lower, which made the domes and stack higher (almost earlier-era looking).

- The A&WP (and corporate sister Western of Alabama) had no 4-8-4's. They had 4-8-2's, some from the FEC, USRA Light Mountain-based, with many detail differences. They had some really big Mikados.

- I had hopes for a NC&StL Dixie in brass from Weaver (I've requested it more than once) one day, but that apparently is not going to happen now, for sure...and I doubt that 3rd Rail will bother with anything from this part of the country (California's perspective is...distant). I'm going to have to build one; I have the frame/running gear donor picked out.

The Dixie is so good-looking (but in as-built form only!) that it can stay in the same room as the N&W J 4-8-4 and even the Dreyfuss Century and Dreyfuss Empire State Hudsons.

Nope.  I have the MTH Meteor 4-8-4.  Yes, I know that the MTH created the Frisco/MKT Meteor from the S. Fe 3751, but that monster blue 4-8-4 with the Meteor tender is

hard to beat.  I remember seeing it as a boy roar through suburban St. Louis.

lewrail