LionChief Plus 2.0 Baby K4s.  NOT in that outlandish red scheme!

Jon

I haven't gotten mine yet, will eyeball tomorrow when it goes live. I will say Mohawks will be a very likely on my list. See what else catches my eye Marty.

Here's my takeaway. As I paged through the catalog I was surprised at how little was Legacy and O scale. 60 pages of interest than 175 pages of product I'm really not interested in.

When I look at a camelback priced at $650 and think, oh that's affordable, what's that say about pricing.

Some great stuff for me to buy second hand in a few years, especially the red Pacemaker.

Was able to glean a little from what I've seen posted here but really need to see it as a complete catalog (the hard copy always helps, too).

Doesn't appear there's much for me. Usually focus on anything PW-inspired, conventional, etc., but I'm interested in the Lion Chief + 2.0 offerings as well so we'll see.

a starter set with LVC and the recording feature

possibly the NASA set or john deere set

The Asa Packer set is calling me....of course my wallet is calling me names for even thinking about it!

@KOOLjock1 posted:

LionChief Plus 2.0 Baby K4s.  NOT in that outlandish red scheme!

Jon

Jon,

What is a "baby" k4? Smaller than Railking?

Haven't been able to thumb through the whole catalog yet but there are a couple of things that I will be preordering so far:

LIRR Camelback

Strasburg SW8

The Presidential Boxcars

- I would consider the Pacemaker boxcar set but until I know what types of couplers and trucks are used on the non-VL boxcars, I am out on those. I just got in the new Lionel Milk Cars and we all know how those are.

The Pacemaker mohawk with match freight set.

I was gonna add the B&O SD70, but i opted to get the MTH Big Boy. So i hope to get the B&O SD70 down the road.

Isn't today supposed to be the online day for the catalog?  I don't see it yet.

@jhz563 posted:

Isn't today supposed to be the online day for the catalog?  I don't see it yet.

Tomorrow (Friday) morning.  The Ryan and Dave show follows that afternoon.

@BradFish1 posted:

Jon,

What is a "baby" k4? Smaller than Railking?

Actually, Lionel got sued over their "Baby K4s" tooling as being WAY too close to the RailKing tooling.  So, about the same size... yes!

Jon

As of now, I am leaning towards a couple things. Of course it's not set in stone. Anyway here are the ponderings from this catalog.

1) The Pacemaker boxcar set. Not to concerned about the trucks and couplers because I will convert everything over to Kadee's.

2) The Santa Fe Flyer passenger set and add-on 2-pack is a possibility.

3) From the American Flyer side either the NYC or Santa Fe Pacific's.

I would like to get a L2a Mohawk from this catalog but the previous 5 L2a's Lionel has done can be found on the second hand market. So the L2a's in this catalog are a pass for me.

The New Hope and Ivyland set looked interesting to me...

D&H 21" passenger cars IF the blue color is correct, and a more than reasonable match with the blue on my previously released D&H  PA's

Personally, I think it is a great catalog! For preordering, I would have to go big with either the "Black Bonet" 3000 or the prototypical 3001 offerings. When I first saw the original 3000 I missed out on getting one, and with them being hard to find, I am defiantly not passing up this opportunity. There is much more I would like to preorder but $2500 for this locomotive fills the budget.

@Trainmaster04 posted:

Personally, I think it is a great catalog! For preordering I would have to go big with either the "Black Bonet" 3000 or the prototypical 3001 offerings. When I first saw the original 3000 I missed out on getting one, and with them being hard to find, I am defiantly not passing up this opportunity. There is much more I would like to preorder but $2500 for locomotive fills the budget.

I personally think it's one of the better catalogs in a few years.  Lots of stuff and lots of sets.  Quite a few items we haven't seen in a while. 

Not a darn thing,  I'm done with the poor quality, bad designs, cheapening of the product, and the high prices Lionel charges.

@superwarp1 posted:

Not a darn thing,  I'm done with the poor quality, bad designs, cheapening of the product, and the high prices Lionel charges.

Don't hold back Gary, how do you really feel?  I understand where you're coming from.