The 3 car expansion packs for several drivers were being blown out at $29.95 by some stores!  I think you can still get them.  The sets back then were diesel as I recall, however.  Steamers might sell better.

Looks nice thanks for sharing! I'll be in for one if it has railsounds.! 

They have to do something to cross promote the manufacture of both vehicle types.

I hear Ford is going to release the Edsel again, maybe it is a new trend.

Things that make you go hummmmmmmm. These steam engines should pull better than the last offering's diesels.

 

I was going to say that, but I thought it was a little too harsh. I guess Lionel likes bankruptcy and this would be a good place to start. If you remember back in the '60's race cars Put the train biz under and they can do it again with stuff like this. most train people could care less about Nascar!

With the steamers these sets look weird!

 

I picked up the old sets, 2 nascar and 1 Dale Jr and add on packs when they were blown out before and got a few extra of the expansion packs,at $29 a set was worth it. I made up a few other team names to go with it!

And picked up the 1/64 Trucks trailers and cars at Walmart and the like when they were cheap. The train seem to run OK.

 

I think they looked better with the Diesels then steamers!  

You can be quite certain those sets will NOT have Railsounds.

 

It will be interesting to see how those sets sell.

jJust sit back and wait, these sets will be blown out super cheap just like the NASCAR diesel sets were.

Maybe Lionel doesn't realize that Nascar is dying. The ridiculous rule changes in racing has taken it from the fastest growing spectator sport to venues with thousands of empty seats. You couple that with sponsors bailing out on some of the big teams, and it ain't rocket science that fans may not be interested in a Nascar train.