Are the coaches in New Hope and Ivyland Excursion set (Lionel 2021 V1) brand new? I can’t remember them being in any previous catalog, but I could be wrong.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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They are the reading ones and freedom train cars fRom last catalog
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I have these in reading and b&m from the last catalog. The kinematic couplers have pros and cons. They keep the cars close but are jerky at slow speeds. I bought them because they are different than the typical heavyweights or streamlined cars. The couplers seem to let go every once in a while too. But overall they’re very nice.
I believe these cars are made from the Weaver tooling Lionel purchased...
@EricTrainMan, can you post some photos? I can't seem to find any pictures or reviews of these brand new cars.
@MrMuffin'sTrains posted:I believe these cars are made from the Weaver tooling Lionel purchased...
I don't believe so. I've been waiting decades for fairly decent Reading coaches like these. Weaver made the Osgood-Bradley coaches, they were easily distinguishable from these. I don't think Bob Weaver ever marketed the Bethlehem Shipbuilding manufactured cars which were so prominent on the Reading and CNJ for years. They need some real work to make them into acceptable 2R scale models, but are a good starting point.
@MrMuffin'sTrains posted:I believe these cars are made from the Weaver tooling Lionel purchased...
Didn't Atlas purchase the Weaver tooling for those? IIRC they are 80' scale length.
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@bigboy25 posted:@EricTrainMan, can you post some photos? I can't seem to find any pictures or reviews of these brand new cars.
I have all the reading cars, nice quality. A few marks on the black roofs. I touched up. The freedom train 4 cars I got were also nice too
@bigboy25 posted:@EricTrainMan, can you post some photos? I can't seem to find any pictures or reviews of these brand new cars.
@tom21pa posted:I have all the reading cars, nice quality. A few marks on the black roofs. I touched up. The freedom train 4 cars I got were also nice too
Pictures of them? They appear kinda funky looking in the Lionel catalog illustrations.
This thread has some photos of them in Reading and in Chessie https://ogrforum.com/...assenger-car-arrival They are beautiful cars that I highly recommend.
The Lionel cars are definitely not the Weaver Pullman-Bradley coaches. I have both. The Weaver cars are longer and are differently styled although both have "rounded" roofs. Lionel's cars are correct to the Reading prototype. SGL made the "modernized" version of these cars in brass and they match up nicely. Since New Hope uses the former Reading coaches, they are also correct. For what it is worth, I run both on O-42 curves but the Lionel cars look better. less overhang.
