Originally Posted by Nawlins:
... There isn't even a sku for each 2-pack of cars...
I received my set from Charles Ro this past weekend, and the cars came as you described... with no label on either 2-pack. I checked each 2-pack to ensure I received the proper 4 cars, and thankfully I did. Fortunately, each individual box was labeled with the appropriate 6-dash number: two coaches were packaged in one 2-pack, along with the combine and observation in the other 2-pack.
Word on the street is these cars were "re-packaged" with the locomotive in NC. Perhaps that's why there is no fancy set box. Let's hope that the packaging into 2-packs also occurred in NC immediately before all four cars were inserted into the set shipping box. Otherwise, I can easily see some sets shipping with two sets of coaches or two sets of combine/observation, since the two-packs are completely unlabeled. That's gotta be an accident waiting to happen.
David