Check your Polar RR reindeer stock car before Christmas *UPDATE 7/26*

I really like that car. Do they make it in other road names? Is it traditional or scale?

Well, santa likes milk to go with his cookies

Yeah, that would be an issue though if you waited until the holidays to open it up.

Instant collector item....will be worth minimum $750.- within a week...good catch

Don't you recognize reincows when you see one?

That's Bessy and Tessy

You know Dasher and Dancer and Bessy and Tessy, Prancer and Vixen and Comet and  Cupid ,Donder and Blitzen.

Michael,

It is Scale/Standard O. Not sure what roads, but Lionel made several.  You should be able to search "stock cars" on Lionel's site.

Oh yeah...I better put it back in the package

Very funny.  I think I'll paint a red nose on one of those reincows.

Those get delivered to the hot chocalate factoryn the reindeer are for santa. This allows for more operating interest

Maybe in China those ARE reindeer....

Perhaps they ran out of Reindeer, and somebody said to put a couple of Moos(e) in? 

Nicole, pun spelled backwards is nup and a nup is a nup!

Around my place if you leave those black and white animals out in the pasture in November they get shot so they must be reindeer.

Hey Keith I just read your post and had to open mine up to check it. It just came today, also from Charles Ro and all 4 are reindeer. It is a nice looking car and a great addition for the Polar RR.

Paul

Must have been a packing moostake.

Marty;

What about Olive?   You know; Olive the other reindeer who used to laugh and call Rudolph name? 

You don't make your cocoa with milk?  

Cows in a Polar Railroad stock car is not prototypically accurate.

Bob

I can honestly say that I haven't seen reindeer in a prototype car either.  Do you have pictures to back this up?  

Reindeer travel on the subway I think...... 

Nicole is on a roll today!   I should have said, "a prototype POLAR RAILROAD car" but she got me!

Lionel replied to my email.

"I do apologize I checked our parts list and it comes with 4 cows. The following is a link showing the parts list"

Polar Railroad Reindeer Stock Car

Well, I found three reindeer that came with the Lionel Reindeer Feed Ramp Car.  They are a slightly different color and shinier.  They are the two on the left and one on the far right in the photo below...

...and since cows come with Reindeer Stock Cars, I am keeping one in the car...with a slight modification......

...Moodolph the red-nosed cow...

"Moodolph" runs on track power.  The neck of the cow was hollowed out to fit an Evan Designs chip LED and was filled in with hot glue.  Then the glue was coated with white acrylic paint.  I modified the stock truck to accept a center rail pickup roller.  I purposely only added one pickup roller to this car...this way the light will blink, once in a while, as it passes over switches and such.

The American Flyer ones came with Reindeer...

Nice touch on the "Moodolph".

great idea!  so much talent.

So after all this, they are indicating it was supposed to come with cows???  Doesn't sound likely since paulp also got reindeer with his.

That parts document looks like a classic case of re-using a standard pic for a car that is slightly different (the trucks and screws are very believably the same as other stock cars)

Had to do a double take when I hit the Reply button by the way, will take a little to get used to your new screen name!

-Dave

Kieth,

Clearly a case of fine "lemonade" being made!

Upon checking both the website and the catalog, "features" clearly indicates the car coming with a "load of four (4) reindeer."

Just FYI...

While I find it hard to believe that Lionel would actually go so far as to state that it should have been all Cows, I do believe that it was simply a mis-steak and that you have a legitimate beef here. 

Thanks for the comments.

It sounds like this is a China thing and Lionel has no replacement deer.  I'm fine with it.

I had replied back to Lionel (that is what sparked my little project here).  This was my reply...

Wow.

Are you saying that a
REINDEER STOCK CAR
is suppose to come with
COWS???

Who would want Moodolph in their

"REINDEER STOCK CAR".

Lionel must be joking.

-Keith

...and this was Lionel's reply...

Keith,

 

I apologize for an inconvenience, unfortunately it looks like production no longer manufactures the stock car with reindeer. It really does come with cows and I do not have any reindeer to send to you.

 

Sorry,

Lionel.

Well isn't nice to know that a foreign nation can now tell us what we can have made and what we can't have made even though we told and ordered what we wanted .

This is the trouble with manufacturing in a foreign country where you have NO CONTROL !

  If this happened in this country, perhaps the manufacturer could have made the car and put a coupon in the box for a later cash-in for the missing part when it was made available. 

We have only to see our American Olympic Team wearing foreign style designed and manufactured clothing as they parade in front of other nations.  What a sad fate for us AMERICANS ! 

For all those " nay sayers", who say we can not manufacture anything in this country anymore, this is caused by you; and you are the biggest part of the problem.

  We need to shed our dependence on foreign manufacturing and do things here at HOME, in the good old U.S.A.  Only then will we be truely  FREE!  Dennis M.

Just unbelievable that Lionel can't get Reindeer in it's Reindeer Stock Car, has no spare reindeer to replace defective cars and now claims cows are a proper load.

What next? Will they leave out an engine motor and claim the engine is a push toy?

This does not inspire confidence in Lionel.

Tony

Up on "The D & H Bridge Line"

Maybe the Made in USA boxcar will end up being made in China.....was just a catalog missprint to get as much pre-order/ buzz as possible....

Have you tried to get a plain stock car as that may have the reindeer instead of cows?

James