Lionel 2019 Catalog

My cynical guess: Very little L&N items and no NC&StL items.

LEGACY Dreyfuss Hudsons and 21" 20th Century Limited.

Puzzles me too John. 🤔

Curt

These days it's absolutely worth the risk of missing out on a BTO item to see what they deliver and how it all goes early on. That's my position anyways.

No quality control and broken trains. 

As Mike Reagan used to tell me, trains with round wheels. 

You'll all find out in about three weeks. Stay tuned. 

Maybe a two phase BTO release program.......

I love that just about every reply so far has something to do with Lionel's quality control (or lack thereof)

Personally, I'd like some Strasburg items (especially no. 475, as I don't think a 4-8-0 has been done in O-Scale before)

Rumor of 2020 for Strasburg loco, i heard.

TrainMan1225 posted:

Personally, I'd like some Strasburg items (especially no. 475, as I don't think a 4-8-0 has been done in O-Scale before)

Done by 3rd Rail several years ago. It is a beautiful model. I only wish you had a choice of Cab#s with 3rd Rail. It seems to be the luck of the draw when they ship.

I have preordered four diesel engines from Lionel and Mth and have not had any problems with any of them. Most recently the Lionel NS 1111 SD70ACE no problems.

Looking forward to my 2nd year in O-Gauge.  I'm excited about the catalog but I'm a little aprehensive because of all the hollering.  What can I do?  No real LHS opportunities for me so it's all an Internet dice-roll.  More to the point, I don't know any rumors but I selfishly hope for midwest regional roadnames.

2012ford posted:

I have preordered four diesel engines from Lionel and Mth and have not had any problems with any of them. Most recently the Lionel NS 1111 SD70ACE no problems.

Seems like there are few Lionel diesels with problems. Steam seems to be the issue for Lionel. My one complaint is that on Lionel's barcode unit (1111), the number doesn't function as an actual barcode.  Be wary when you pre-order Lionel steam.

TM Terry posted:

My cynical guess: Very little L&N items and no NC&StL items.

Lots of Pennsylvania and Santa Fe stuff, though!

Ok, so I bought four new production Lionel engines this past year. Two had problems and were taken care of by the dealers. Both problems were computer board ones. I have two more on order, due out in February .

We live by computers and we die by computers. I am using one to type this message., after all.

I also bought several older non-computer run engines off Ebay and they run great. But, of course, they have fewer features which is fine with me .

The world we live in. There are plenty of product choices available out there if you look, especially considering older, less sophisticated engines, mostly like new and performing just great.

Life is good. Happy New Year, everyone.

Due in large part to consistent feedback from its customers and dealers, Lionel has decided to resume manufacturing its scale freight and passenger cars with its former best in class die-cast sprung trucks and couplers with hidden uncoupling tabs. 

I was just asking about any intel on the 2019 Catalog.     I had hoped some might have some inside info.       Not my intent for bashing.    

Alabama Joe posted:

I was just asking about any intel on the 2019 Catalog.     I had hoped some might have some inside info.       Not my intent for bashing.    

You're good, Joe. 

Should be hearing some news soon.

Happy New Year!

I still say assembly instructions and glue!  

There will be no more BTO

It will now be BBO. (Built by owner)