Model Train Journal

You guys check out the Lionel 2020 yet!?

I am def. shooting for the NYC Lightning Stripe F3s and maybe that cool Area 51 tower!

It is a big catalog. There is a lot of nice stuff in it. A lot of it is pretty expensive. I give Lionel a lot of credit in the technology department. The upgrades to the LionChief products is really well thought out. Using an app on a cell phone is great way to get little kids involved in the hobby. The marketing tie ins with Disney, WB is also pretty shrewd. I won't be buying any Frozen or Frozen 2 trains myself but I can see where those might catch some kids fancy.

Happy Birthday to the 120 year old company, and hopefully many more to come.

Amen Chuck.

The NYC F-3 is a LC2.0+ engine...so we could control it with a phone. I just hope it looks like the photo, jet black lighting strip PW style. Would be a nice upgrade to a 2175W set, yet at the same time cosmetically fitting it.

I have a 5 & 2 year old so I am burned out of Frozen, but yes extremely shrewd on their part.

I agree with you guys but don't see anything I must have.
But I haven't for several years now.

I, too, did not see anything that interested me.

There are a few must haves for me like the additional scale PE Hobo car and the Star Trek set but I will not pre order anymore engines after the J stripe fiasco until Lionel proves I can order confidently.

If I was recovering from a Frontal Lobotomy and decided I needed anything NYC....for an F-5 I'd look for a 2344. You do know they aren't really F-3's in original production, right? Half chicken wire, half louvers on each side.

I had some NYC F's early on. They are now NP, if I remember.

I have become aware that I have too much stuff, much of which is just the pleasure of accumulation rather than actual play. But as the weeks have worn on, I've become aware that I would very much like the two new sets with illuminated track (Christmas and Area 51), plus some extra straight track, despite the expense (almost 15 bucks per section). So I caved on those gradually. I would have liked the NYC LC +2.0 but restrained myself. I have plenty of NYC diesels accumulated over the last 30 or so years. I would have ordered one of the new O scale cars at $34 each from Charles Ro, but I have too many of those too . Interesting that Lionel is actively trying to produce less expensive sets and rolling stock at a time when the high end is also expanding.

I think that is where they need to go to start building sales back.

I wonder if Lionel will get enough pre-orders to actually make this uncatalogued Taco Stand?

webenda wrote:I wonder if Lionel will get enough pre-orders to actually make this uncatalogued Taco Stand?

At $125 I'd be doubtful. Should not be hard to scratchbuild if given the graphics,

https://www.legacystation.com/lionel-20 ... 2499-46986

PreOrder is $94! Get a dozen!

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

webenda wrote:I wonder if Lionel will get enough pre-orders to actually make this uncatalogued Taco Stand?

At $125 I'd be doubtful. Should not be hard to scratchbuild if given the graphics,

The Taco Stand is animated. Looks like the dog and the man move. Maybe the dog pee's on the hydrant.

HONDO74 wrote:

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

webenda wrote:I wonder if Lionel will get enough pre-orders to actually make this uncatalogued Taco Stand?

At $125 I'd be doubtful. Should not be hard to scratchbuild if given the graphics,

The Taco Stand is animated. Looks like the dog and the man move. Maybe the dog pee's on the hydrant.

So? Maybe it comes with smell-o-vision too. It's still $125.

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

HONDO74 wrote:

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
At $125 I'd be doubtful. Should not be hard to scratchbuild if given the graphics,

The Taco Stand is animated. Looks like the dog and the man move. Maybe the dog pee's on the hydrant.

So? Maybe it comes with smell-o-vision too. It's still $125.

No, it's not. Read my last...pre-order at 94....order a bunch...have a "chain"!
With a link, even!