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Hello everyone, I have a dilemma and I need suggestions. I preordered in this years Lionel catalog the Lionel Acela with the expansion set, Vision line Santa Fe 2-10-10-2 #3001, and the red/gray New York Central L2-A with the expansion set. My wife and I came to an agreement that I can have 2 out of the 3 trains. I do not know if Lionel is going produce the Acela or not. Does anyone know? If so, what would be the best 2 choices I should get out of the 3 above?

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Im glad that they are making it because I preorder the prototypical Acela. Im torn because I missed out on the first Santa Fe 2-10-10-2 Vision line, the Acela is Lionel's icon and substituted the automatic doors with an added motorized B unit, and the NYC L2-A is the bang for the buck. I can only afford 2  of them without causing a divorce. I wish others can chime in to help narrow it down.

Your choices are a SF steam engine that was gone by 1918, a passenger train that started service in 2000, and a NYC steam engine in a fantasy scheme.  That is quite a broad range of interest.

I do agree with PRR steam.  Need to stay with the pre-order unless the product is messed up.

I believe these will come at different times and none of them very soon, so I think the costs will be spread out.  Negotiate with your wife with something she really wants.  Or agree not to buy another engine for the next 1-5 years or so (but only if you can stick to it).

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The Santa Fe 2-10-10-2's weren't really successful and rebuilt into 2-10-2's between 1915 and 1918.

Rusty

Very true. Too small of a boiler and not enough interest. I imagine if SF rebuilt the boilers and converted the locomotives to a simple configuration, I would imagine they would have been more successful. Either way, SF made a locomotive with a fallback policy to where if it succeeds, then ok, but if not, well make two locomotives.

@Strafe posted:

Hello everyone, I have a dilemma and I need suggestions. I preordered in this years Lionel catalog the Lionel Acela with the expansion set, Vision line Santa Fe 2-10-10-2 #3001, and the red/gray New York Central L2-A with the expansion set. My wife and I came to an agreement that I can have 2 out of the 3 trains. I do not know if Lionel is going produce the Acela or not. Does anyone know? If so, what would be the best 2 choices I should get out of the 3 above?

It is more of a case of what you want, not what we think that you should buy.

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