Ok, I guess the top 5 thing is getting old but here is my list of “hopes and dreams” so to speak. Ok, I guess my list is short but I am shure whatever Lionel comes out with next I will like anyway.
Traditional sized Southern Railroad #4501 2-8-2 Mikado in Virginia green and gold stripes.
Lionel 726 Berkshire with updated can motors in loco and an air whistle with can motor. They don’t have to reproduce the old electric motors, just "update their postwar releases to keep the price down. At least to me anyway.
Either one of those would be stimulus for me to buy the Legacy gizmo. Hopefully, by the time either of those two are released, they will have Legacy fixed [:D]
a Northern Pacific Z-8 Challenger 4-6-6-4 with centipede tender please
Northern pacific northern Class A through A-5!
a set of F3a or F7 A-B-A Northern Pacific scale in Raymond Lowey two tone green Passenger paint scheme.
A scale USRA Heavy Mikado with add on details and decals to make your own engine to fit your prototype railroad.
How about a N&W John Henry! that would be so cool…
Oh and keep up with the Odessy, railsounds 5.0, all the crew chit chat and lots of smoke and operator noise please! this should be a made to order option anyway…
I’d like to see Lionel model the LIRR’s Cannonball, both the way it appears today, and the way it appeared in the 1990’s.
Today’s version is a Kawasaki built DE at each end, both with Cannonball Drumheads and a string of
bi-level coaches.
The version in the 1990’s had usually a GP-20 (or similar) on the lead (with Drumhead), a MP-15 at the rear (no drumhead), and a cobination of Palor Cars (red stripe) and coaches (blue stripe).
K-Line made everything in the past except for the newer DE engines, so it should not be that difficult to create. For all the LIRR models that K-Line made they NEVER modeled The Cannonball.
A live steam engine with whistle and a trailing car that you can make coffee with from the engines boiler.
A cogged center rail and a cog drive sprocket under the engine so my Lionel 4-4-2s can pull a 40 car train of cars up my unrealistic 3%+ grade with an “S” curve in the middle. I bet a cog drive engine could have a pulling force greater than its weight.
Onboard accellerometers, sensors and computer that store a memory of the layout and automatically slows down the engine on or before curves to prevent flying off the layout.
Tenders and caboose’s with braking features for descending hills.
GPS tracking for any engine $500 or higher so you can find it in case its stolen.
**Boyd…**at last, a practical visionary. Add to your list refrigerated tankers to haul and dispense beer so an operating session isn’t interrupted. [swg]
iI would like to seem more engines with the LONG ISLAND ROAD NAME that are affordable. It seems that anytime I see these up for auction on ebay you have to pay a premium for them.
One of the things I wanted Lionel to make was a BNSF SD70ACe. Since they have (yaaay!) and I have it on order, here are the other things Lionel could make that would be cool.
An Amtrak Genesis diesel, preferably scale-sized with Legacy and RailSounds. Since they’ve never made one before, I don’t really care what paint scheme, just as long as its Amtrak!
A new version of their Dash 8-32BWH in the Amtrak Phase V paint scheme with Legacy, and flashing ditch lights!
Some more BNSF units, maybe a Dash 9 or SD70MAC painted in the Heritage III scheme
A Dallas DART light rail train, with special variable horn control - pull halfway, the electronic whistle sounds, pull all the way, the horn sounds - and once touch bell “ding ding” sounds. How about opening doors, changing station names on the destination boards, and station anouncements? THAT would be awesome. And they should have it be the “Super” light rail train with the extra car in the center. I’d buy one of those in a second!
Maybe some new introductory diesels, or new paint schemes on existing models, like a Santa Fe “bluebonnet” GP20, etc. And maybe they could equip some of them with TrainSounds?
Steam engines with smoke that comes out of the cylinders upon startup and then stops while the engine is running at a good clip. And an engineer that you can actually see opening up the throttle inside the engines cab while accelerating and a fireman that moves also as he turns valves on the boiler and shovels coal from the tender into the firebox. It could be called “Interactive crewman”. Lionel, are you listening to this idea!!! Smoke that comes out of the turbo generators and high pressure smoke that comes out of the whistle everytime you blow it!!! And have it to where the Interactive fireman can open up the firebox door and you can see a modeled glowing white hot burning coal load inside the firebox and some of that fabric fire and have a miniature fan that will blow air up inside the fire box slower when the engine is at idle and blow the fabric fire up higher when the engine is moving fast. And also when the bell rings, the bell should should swing too, if the bell on that locomotive is supposed to swing. Lionel, are you listening!!![^]
I want Lionel to come out with a Coca-Cola bullit train thats chrome plated like the MTH Coores Light train. I would take Coke over nasty beer anyway!!!