Ok Lionel Dealers!
we need someone to step up and do a custom run of Strasburg 31 with the correct tender. The one in the catalog is too wrong to even try and look past. Come on! Someone take my money!
2022 Vol1
make this!!!
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Right there with you. The Washington Terminal 0-6-0 had a tender similar to the PRR H10, B6, and E6 that Lionel has done in recent years.
Looks rather silly having a tender taller than the engine itself.
I'm all in for that!
This has to be some kind of a record...The catalogs not even out yet.
@greg773 posted:Ok Lionel Dealers!
we need someone to step up and do a custom run of Strasburg 31 with the correct tender. The one in the catalog is too wrong to even try and look past. Come on! Someone take my money!
2022 Vol1
make this!!!
The mogul tender would be good here
How about starting with the correct engine? Way off on both counts. I suspect one reason they used the pieces they did is the prototype is so small they would only be able to fit trackmobile boards in there.
Pete
@Brian DeFazio posted:The mogul tender would be good here
If you could only find a Legacy Mogul that didn't go to the crusher because they were all screwed up! 
@gunrunnerjohn posted:If you could only find a Legacy Mogul that didn't go to the crusher because they were all screwed up!
LMAO!!!!!
When does it come out? I thought 9am today?
The PRR version has a shorter tender even though the Lionel image shows the same one as the above image. Even though it's not the same, it's a lot closer. Maybe they will use that one.
@papajoewill posted:When does it come out? I thought 9am today?
10:00 am.
@papajoewill posted:When does it come out? I thought 9am today?
10am
Unless Lionel decides to change this at a factory level you're not getting a special run / different tender out of a dealer. The justification of running a run of 25-50 tenders including frames, trucks, shells, etc isn't even close to financially reasonable. I would assume that Lionel explored what options are available to them in terms of tender tooling and if this is what they settled on, then this is what they feel is the best option they have available. This is one of those situations where I think you settle, or you're going to be scratch building a tender and transplanting electronics.
Settling is not an option!
@greg773 posted:Settling is not an option!
Well then I guess you won't be buying it. You're not going to twist their arm into switching the tender this late in the game. This catalog has likely been done for months, I can't ever recall a time where Lionel has switched tender tooling that drastically after an item was cataloged.
I’ve twisted arms in the past to get things changed. Not as big an arm as a tender but twist I have.
the trick is to make people aware and for the people to demand what they want. Just saying this is how it is deal with makes them think it’s ok. But when you push for excellence the seller and buyer both win
@Notch 6 posted:Well then I guess you won't be buying it. You're not going to twist their arm into switching the tender this late in the game. This catalog has likely been done for months, I can't ever recall a time where Lionel has switched tender tooling that drastically after an item was cataloged.
@Rider Sandman posted:
Ah I forgot about that one. That was a different era...
@Notch 6 posted:Ah I forgot about that one. That was a different era...
I suspect you’re right, Derek.
