Lionel 2012 Dealer Appreciation Boxcar?

David

The number is 6-34360

Hi David,

I did some checking and it first appeared on the 12-3-12 shipping list as 6-34360 thru to the 12-31-12 shipping list.

I could not find it on any earlier list.

But I looked on Charles Ro sites and they have it listed as a 6-34323 and I did not find that number on any shipping list.

I hope that helps you, it must be on it's way.

Thanks gentlemen!!!  Very much appreciate the info.  That will be very helpful. 

David

Hi folks, just thought I'd revive this thread to let everyone know that Lionel has, in fact, shipped the 2012 Dealer Appreciation Car as 6-34360.  It's my understanding that each authorized Lionel dealer received ONE car.  But I'm sure some of the dealers with strong connections to Lionel may be able to source a few more as "left-overs" or extras become available at the Lionel warehouse.  Who knows... perhaps some of you attending the Lionel/LCCA event this weekend may find a great deal on extras at the NC warehouse.

I grabbed one the other day on eBay.  Acquisitions from bidding appear to settle in around $45-$50 plus shipping, while the buy-it-now sellers are trying to push $80-$100 plus shipping.  So for now it's better to try your luck at bidding.

Overall, it's a nice car with graphics that coordinate with the 2012 Signature Catalog featuring the Blue Comet locomotive.  Although I've pretty much standardized on Lionel's scale offerings these days, the dealer appreciation cars are traditional-sized O-Gauge box cars that I'll likely use for display pieces rather than see any track time.

Search the Bay for pictures of 6-34360.  There are no shortages of them out there whatsoever.  

David

>>Acquisitions from bidding appear to settle in around $45-$50 plus shipping, while the buy-it-now sellers are trying to push $80-$100 plus shipping.  So for now it's better to try your luck at bidding.<<

Prior to 2007 these boxcars were all Christmas themed and given to dealers at Toy Fair. The 2007 car was the first Dealer Appreciation car but also Christmas themed. 

The only Dealer Appreciation boxcar made so far without Christmas or catalog graphics came in 2008 and IMO, its the nicest one of all so far..

Every D/A car given away since then (six total) has been decorated with catalog graphics. Don't believe any of the six are rare or hard to find.

Joe

Slightly branching off of your topic of the 2012 car Dave, but just an observation about some of the previous years cars.

I purchased the Tastykake cars offered by the Atlantic Division as fund raisers for the 2014 TCA convention that will be held in Cherry Hill, NJ.

I purchased 4 total of the 2 cars offered (so far), and "old stock" cars were used for the repainting done for these cars.  3 of my 4 cars came in shipping cartons indicating they started life as 2011 Dealer Appreciation cars.  (the final one was a 2011 LRRC Christmas car)

Just thought that might be interesting since that would seem to indicate that at some point (at least for 2011 cars), they were not the "one per dealer" production.  Either extras were made or many dealers didn't want them when Lionel offered, so they became available for this project.

In any event, it would be interesting to see if in the long run this makes the 2011 cars harder to find if a lot of them got repainted.

-Dave