I don’t know, but I bet it will look fantastic running around a layout!
I'm very excited to have ordered my first Vision Line locomotive. I have been drooling over them for a few years now.
Lionel only makes a few Vision Line locomotives;
So far they have made only a few steam engines. They make the Big Boy, Hudson, Challenger, PRR 0-8-8-0 and a Santa Fe 2-10-10-2. Some different road names and or other variations of most. Sadly no 2-8-8-4 EM-1. I may have bought a Vision Line EM-1. They just made a new Legacy version of the EM-1 (2012). I have the TMCC version of the EM-1 (2000), B&O version, of course. None of the Vision Line steam engines motivated me to buy one.
They made a Vision Line Baldwin Centipede A-A set; PRR, UP and a Demonstrator, all A-A sets. I guess if you are going to ask over $2000 for a pair of toy train locomotives they should be massive. The Centipede is massive! This is not my kind of locomotive, but the 5 stripe PRR version looks good!
Then there is the green fleet; Norfolk Southern Gen-Set Switcher, Canadian Pacific Evolution Hybrid, UP Gen-Set 3GS21B Switcher and a GE Evolution Hybrid. I like the Norfolk Southern, but I have never seen a NS Gen-Set in or around Baltimore. That is a good question for Boris!
Then Lionel makes an all new, Vision Line GG1! Now I'm motivated! Having seen 926 working in these colors I had to have the Amtrak version!
As a youngster I crossed the northeast corridor 2-3 times a week and more. I played baseball in Riverdale, the left field fence was the fence for the northeast corridor!
I never did hit a train. I hit many homeruns over that fence, but never once hit a train. Not even the slow moving freights. I hit as many homeruns to center and right as I did to left. Probably more to right because if the ball got through the outfield there was not a fence for what seemed like 1000 yards. I was almost always the fastest guy on the field. Hit a line drive to left and it hits the fence, you might only end up with a single, but I seldom settled for a single. Of course I got thrown out a few times, it's baseball! But I'm off topic!
This is a milestone in my train world
Thank God for my trains. My family, including my beagles, Little league baseball and my trains. These are some of my gifts from God.
Thanks
Mike for sharing it with me
I could not agree with you more!
It's going to look great running on the carpet in my train room this Christmas! To me anyway
I got to get an O scale baseball field to put next to it.