LIONEL’S NEW 2001 CATALOG,CHECK OUT PAGES 36 AND 37,DID YOU NOTICE MISSING COUPLERS,CHECK AGAIN==HUB
I thought those U-boats looked funny. Lionel, MTH and others will often use another manufacturers trains or even another scale train to advertise a new release. I a lot of cases, they don’t yet have a pre-production unit available for photography so they re-paint someone elses. I don’t have a hard copy of the new catalog, but those U-bouts looked more like a computer simulation than an actual photo of a train.
My guess is that these will be as detailed as the recent C-420s and RS-11s.
Tim P.