@PSM posted:Not much NYC from what I saw.
What about Conrail and the mighty PRR?
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:What about Conrail and the mighty PRR?
There is Conrail.
any legacy sets this time?
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:What about Conrail and the mighty PRR?
PRR gets the M1, I don't recall seeing any Conrail.
@PSM posted:PRR gets the M1
No doubt in Army green. 
@Bob posted:No doubt in Army green.
There are gazillion of them Bob. Maybe as many as Pennsy had. Every color in the rainbow.
Pete
@GregK posted:SD50s in the classic blue, and I think a GP30, too, but I can't remember now. Anyway we'll get to see the whole thing in the morning.
Gp30s Conrail black and reading patch CR
@GregK posted:SD50s in the classic blue, and I think a GP30, too, but I can't remember now. Anyway we'll get to see the whole thing in the morning.
Conrail SD50s? Sounds great!
What about Amtrak?
12 hours to go
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:What about Amtrak?
Just Amtrak station sounds dome ocean view. In phase 3
@tom21pa posted:Just Amtrak station sounds dome ocean view. In phase 3
Bet it doesn't look as nice as the GGD brass one with the correct extrusions!
The Pullman-Standard double-door 60' box cars built in the 1960's for
Canadian National
Chicago & North Western
Grand Trunk Western
will not be produced until 2024.
Andrew
Ryan and everyone else at LIONEL need to have new road numbers of the B&O and C&O Chessie System GP30 diesel-electric locomotives produced every year.
Andrew
2 Rail
In 1971 the Steven Spielberg movie DUEL was made.
One of the scenes in DUEL was at a Southern Pacific railroad grade crossing featuring a current day freight train.
The people at LIONEL could have every single locomotive and freight car that is seen in the movie DUEL produced all within the same year.
They would need a high-definition copy of the 1971 movie DUEL to see every single detail.
Andrew
Lionel added "TORPEDOES" (roof mounted auxiliary air reservoirs) to their GP9s in the 2018 catalog. They offered B&O (psgr), CNW, MILW, NKP, TH&B and WAB. Methinks it's time to bring back this model, adding more of the roads and paint schemes offered by the prototype roads that used them. At minimum, there are the B&O in spartan blue, BN, CP, PRR, Soo Line in three color schemes, and the one I'd most like to have: Illinois Central.
The IC used their passenger geared and steam equipped Geeps to haul their less prestigious trains such as my favorite, the Hawkeye, plus the Land-O-Corn, Governors Special, etc.
My Hawkeye has had to make do with a MTH Rail King GP9, for which I used a .22 brass casing for a steam generator stack, this in remembrance of all the times GunRunnerJohn has rescued me from imminent disaster. The .22 brass is just the right size and the rim glued on the inside of the carbody keeps it upright, stable and sturdy. Atlas has also offered an IC GP9 but it doesn't even have a boss for a steam generator and the engine numbers are all wrong.
C'mon, Lionel, I've been waiting patiently...
As Roger Rabbit once said, famously, "P-P-P-P-UHLLEEEEEEEZE!"
lionchief 2.0 norfolk southern gp38
a lionchief set themed around the videogames Horizon Forbidden west and zero dawn with Aloy themed crew talk
fortnite train set
overwatch train set
GTA 5 Go Loco GP38
Mr Beast GP9
did anyone get a straight answer of when the catalog drops?
A Rock Island light blue and white Lionchief GP38
MKT Lionchief GP38
Mopac Lionchief GP38
Illinois terminal GP38
Penn Central 40ft trailer on flat car in the Green Scheme
Sea Land 40 for trailer on flat in the early scheme
just saying , if anyone has good contacts with dealers or direct with Lionel. Been trying t get these trailers done as special ruins , but no one listens . Lol
I'm really close to having everything I could possibly want in trains which is really weird feeling!
There are a few items out of existing tooling that would still interest me.
I'd like to see the HEP car in Amtrak Phase I paint, but with an option to purchase it without the sounds. I just like the car even it if isn't totally prototypical to the actual Amtrak cars. The Amtrak ones are actually only 60' cars rebuilt from St. Louis Car Company Army Kitchen cars. I could call it close enough though.
Some additional numbers for Phase III Heritage coaches would be nice too. I found the smooth sided one loosely based on the Saint Louis Car Company prototype to be nicely done and nice change from the typical Budd built cars. The 4 car set, plus the 2 car add-on set came with two coaches total, and typically most Amtrak Heritage equipped trains ran with four or more coaches. I have scale Amfleet cars to use, but a complete Heritage fleet train would be awesome.
I'd also possibly be interested in the Reading 72' commuter cars painted in CNJ. CNJ operated this car if not a very similar one with the low sloped roof and I like the fact that Lionel has made accommodations to swap the wheels out to two rail and add Kadee couplers.
As for new tooling? I doubt Lionel used a slide tool for the 21" cars which would make this easy, but using the baggage-coach tool and shrinking the windows to squares, a proper baggage-dorm car in any number of roads would be very welcome. I'd like to see one in PC and Amtrak Phase I & III personally, but they could put any paint scheme on it and I think it could do well.
The challenge I see is that Lionel prefers to do sets over individual cars unless they command the price point of something like a station sounds diner or dome. I'm mostly past wanting passenger car sets having more than my fair share. Maybe a two-car set with a coach and a dorm car would be something Lionel would consider.
I don't have any interest in new locomotives at the moment and I have enough freight cars to fill several yards.
@GG1 4877 posted:I'm really close to having everything I could possibly want in trains which is really weird feeling!
I envy this... hope I join you in that circle someday!
@H1000 posted:I envy this... hope I join you in that circle someday!
i'm very far from that circle but may have to get closer as i'm running out of room to store my stuff
AND i may be getting a little greedy / ahead of myself
Perhaps this has already been said or even already done, I'd really like to see more TMCC or Legacy operating accessories, like the venerable milk car/platform and the ice loading station. I really love the culvert loader/unloader TMCC version, and gotta believe that the milk/ice car accessories could be along those lines.
just got a vision where i saw a white and silver phantom set with light up features called the arctic express
i also got a vision of a fantasy bantam j class in the original NS diesel scheme racing through greenville nc on a snowy night
a 49er bantam j pulling a line of freight in my character Fenix Starr's living room using marx scented smoke fluid
i've been having these visions a lot lately . maybe its OLD. (Obsessive Lionel Disorder)
Well, since this is a wish list…
Siemens Chargers (so many possibilities there)
ET44ACs
The C&O Hudson from the B&O Museum with added smoke affects. This may not be so much of a wish, but a when.
Sone SD60s based off the new tooling from the recently catalogued SD50s.
Continuation of the NS heritage ES44s.
Oh, and one last loco I would love to see would be the GE ES44AC 2010 GEVO with the charging lights. I know it would be in plastic, but would be great to see run again. Add the GE Test car with it.
Oh, those should all be scale with Legacy and Bluetooth.
Wish, Wish, Wish
@Carl Peduzzi posted:Well, since this is a wish list…
Siemens Chargers (so many possibilities there)
ET44ACs
The C&O Hudson from the B&O Museum with added smoke affects. This may not be so much of a wish, but a when.
Sone SD60s based off the new tooling from the recently catalogued SD50s.
Continuation of the NS heritage ES44s.
Oh, and one last loco I would love to see would be the GE ES44AC 2010 GEVO with the charging lights. I know it would be in plastic, but would be great to see run again. Add the GE Test car with it.
Oh, those should all be scale with Legacy and Bluetooth.
Wish, Wish, Wish
Some great ideas, Carl.
Ditto on the Siemens Chargers (especially an Amtrak ALC-42 Phase 7 unit w/ matching Superliner passenger cars), ET44ACs (also the BNSF ET44C4s with correct truck sideframe details), SD60s (Lionel said these will probably happen sometime), and the GE #2010 Hybrid/GE test car.
Lionel will most likely release more NS heritage units. Also, the Chargers need matching passenger cars.
My wishlist (not in any specific order):
-CSX Heritage ES44AH units
-BNSF/FEC ES44C4s with correct truck details
-EMD/Progress Rail SD70ACe-T4
-SD45-2 (especially the ATSF blue/yellow Warbonnet, Bicentennial ATSF, BNSF SD40-2R with 16-cylinder 645 prime mover sounds, and BNSF SD32ECO rebuilds with 12-cylinder 710 prime mover sounds)
-GP60/GP60M(-3)/GP60B
-GP38-2
-GP39-2
-GP40-2
-GP50
-SD7/SD9
-Polar Express Berkshire and matching passenger cars
-Pere Marquette and NKP Berkshires
-ATSF #3751
-SD75M/SD75I (especially ATSF SD75M and ATSF/BNSF SD75I units)
-Rebuilt power with correct cabs and radiators (for example: CSX ET23DCMs, CSX "Spongebob Cab" SD40-3s, GP40-3s, and GP38-3s, NS Admiral Cab SD40-2s, SD33ECOs, GP33ECOs, GP59Es/ECOs)
-ATSF or BNSF SD40-2s (maybe a UP SD40N rebuild, too)
-UP SD59MX rebuild
-BNSF GP39-3 rebuilds (also BN GP39E/M/V GP30 and GP35 rebuilds with correct body details)
-UP SD70Ms (multiple radiator and cab versions)
-Vision Ethanol Tank Cars
-Fastrack Turntable w/ Command-Control
-Legacy Crane Car/Boom Car Sets
-Command-Control Intermodal Cranes and Gantry Cranes with sounds
-New GE U-Boats (U28CG, U36C, U25B, U25C, U30C)
-3-Unit UP "Big Blow" Gas Turbines
-SD90MAC-H with correct body and cab details
-Correct cabs on new SD70ACU and SD70ACC rebuilds
-Phantom locomotives with matching passenger and freight car sets (new liveries and features for these)
-An engine I've really wanted for a long time: UP GP30 #844 with Legacy!
Hey @Dylan the Train Man, for a moment there I was going to quote your entire list as there is so much there that needs To be made.
The Berkshires seem to be a go as so many have talked about them being in this catalog.
Lionel needs some good GPs - especially the 38-2s and 40-2s.
i would pick up some BNSF GP60s. U30C and C30-7s would be a must for me.
You have some good generation 3 and 4 motive power there I would Love to see.
And, as a repeat of a question from @paigetrain, has anyone heard of the official catalog drop date?
A LC + 2.0 Class A with Whistle Steam would awesome!
My "right now” wishlist:
N&W 475
Strasburg open air cars, especially the Hello Dolly
Strasburg parlor, diner, 1st class coaches
My "down the road” wish list:
Rocky Mountaineer passenger set
Plated Santa Fe Super Chief passenger set with smooth sided coaches
Norfolk Southern OCS set
N&W J class 611
Disneyland / Walt Disney World scale Park train
It seems @MrMuffin'sTrains has answered my question with one of his emails. The new catalog drops on Jan 11. Just 7 days away.
@Carl Peduzzi posted:It seems @MrMuffin'sTrains has answered my question with one of his emails. The new catalog drops on Jan 11. Just 7 days away.
i can do this
just one more week
I’m pretty much done buying locomotives as we haven’t seen any all new tooling for a while now. I’d be interested in the ALCO HH660 switcher, which has never been produced in O gauge, to my knowledge. I’ll take one each in Boston and Maine and Maine Central liveries.
(Okay, I'm lazy. This is a duplication of my post on the 'Lionel 2024 Catalog' topic)
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results - Albert Einstein.
I must be going insane because I keep asking for Lionel to complete their American Freedom Train as they said they would but they never do.
We have no idea what Lionel, MTH, or Atlas will choose to make or invest in. It’s one of the reasons lists like these wake up before catalog drops and excite the forum. The masses don’t know what is in the catalog, so we hope and dream. It’s like Christmas twice a year.
Maybe we get something new. Maybe we don’t. Regardless, it’s a figurative candy store we will get to enter next Friday and see what sweet offerings will be offered.
My wish list would be some scale Berkshires, scale Polar Express, Santa Fe 2-10-4 number 5000, and Santa Fe 3460 class including the Blue Goose.
I’ve restricted myself to buying locomotives and rolling stock from the early steam to diesel era to keep myself from buying everything in sight. I’m still hoping that Lionel will release a PA-1 in one of the New Haven Railroad’s pre-McGinnis paint schemes. Not all of us are enraptured with DCS.
I also have a certain fondness for the “Harry Potter” 4-6-0. It would be nice to get one in one of post-nationalization British Railways’ green-with-black smokebox paint schemes, but I’m not going to hold my breath. Perhaps as aBuild to Order?
Speaking of 4-6-0s, I wonder how well a Denver and Salt Lake legacy 4-6-0 would sell. Build to Order, maybe?
i’m also game for an 18 inch heavyweight passenger car, but I think it’s unlikely, even in Polar Express colors
Also, if Lionel re-releases their round-roof boxcars, it would be nice of them to get the PRR colors RIGHT and with different numbers.
I personally will always wish for some more Western Maryland and B&O. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a PRR specific locomotive in the catalog, since they've done it for the past 3, and if there is one I hope its a T1. A new legacy T1 will always be on my wish list. A reissue of the GG1 would also be nice. From what I have seen so far from leaks, the first catalog of the year is shaping to be pretty nice.
@Tyler.J posted:I personally will always wish for some more Western Maryland and B&O. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a PRR specific locomotive in the catalog, since they've done it for the past 3, and if there is one I hope its a T1. A new legacy T1 will always be on my wish list. A reissue of the GG1 would also be nice. From what I have seen so far from leaks, the first catalog of the year is shaping to be pretty nice.
leaks already ? good lord
even though i'm not allowed to buy halloween stuff i hope there's a whole train load of haunted goodies that i can just admire from a distance
depending on my next doctor visit in april this may be my last catalog ever so it better be EPIC
