Email from lionel.com said new steam locomotive frisco-legacy-0-6-0-3801 "Its a little switcher" ! "Go slow over any switches" ! Description: http://www.lionel.com/products/frisco-legacy-0-6-0-3801-2231540 details MSRP: $799.99 Revised delivery date: March 31, 2023. This new release is coming out under various railroad names. Frisco LEGACY 0-6-0 #3801 1 SKU: 2231540 AS OF JAN. 18, 2023 VERY FEW ARE REMAINING. PRE-ORDERS HAVE GONE WILD.
https://www.lionelstore.com/M-K-T-LEGACY-PA-AA-Set-152A-152C' These were to be a new product in ~ April 2023. These AA SET #152A/152C are already about sold out, with only a "Few Left"! Pre-orders have gone wild. Place to order these is at www.lionelstore.com . Also purchase at: https://www.trainworld.com/shop-scale.html?engine_style=17438&manufacturer=59&product_line=968 IN STOCK, Only 1 left, SKU# 2133400 Features: Both units powered! SKU: 2133400 Both locomotives are LEGACY® Control System equipped – able to run in LEGACY®Control mode, in TrainMaster® Command Control mode, or in Conventional mode with a standard transformer Odyssey® II Speed Control Dual powerful maintenance-free motors with momentum flywheels. And it has about 24 other features. In 1948 was the first all Diesel train for the Texas Special. In 1949 the M-K-T purchased two PA-1 for the Texas Special. . I read below that the M-K-T had one E8 then. The Frisco had E7s. To keep up with the routes business both railroads were painting old heavy weights cars to look similar to the Texas Special streamline cars. Soon there were 20 car trains, about 6 more cars than before. Those heavy weight cars looked something like those shown here below V . .These are a Pack A Pack C [2 car set]. There is only one set of these Pack A heavy weight cars left at www.lionelstore.com before they run out. Also there is one set left at https://www.trainworld.com/lionel-2...passenger-2-pack-a-lionel-trains-2127530.html These cars shown above are the Pack A. There is also a Pack B which has a platform tail car and a RPO car. SKU: 2133400 Heavy weigth cars in action Texas Special history