Lionel 86' auto parts boxcars in CSX & DT&I ?

Scott, according to their shipping schedule it shows a April 2019 delivery date..............Paul 2

paul 2 posted:

Scott, according to their shipping schedule it shows a April 2019 delivery date..............Paul 2

Paul, overdue then.  Thanks. Maybe they are on a ship somewhere.  Is that "schedule" on their site somewhere? Perhaps it should be called "estimates."   We used to refer to the individual Amtrak route sheets as "estimate sheets."

Scott, two of my four DT&I 86’ boxcars arrived from Charles Ro this week, and two arrived last week. The photos were taken on the NCOG club layout earlier today.

I think mine landed on my front porch this morning, but I'm not home to confirm that. I remember correctly, those were in the 2018 V2 catalog, so it is only one removed from current. That's pretty close to the projected delivery date, missing by about 5 or 6 weeks.

Bill, Thanks for the update!  I should be hearing from Mario's soon then! 

Great looking cars !

Elliott,  yea not bad, 4 weeks late for model trains is like a 30 min delay on a Chicago flight.  If you want, I can check your porch.  ;-)

Scott

Yeah Scott, you're right about the delay being pretty good for the train world. I'll save you the trip to check them out though. I had my brother in law scoop up the package yesterday.

Looks good.

anyone have pictures of the bleed through csx?

How many more years are we going to have to wait for a C&O High-Cube 86' Boxcar that looks like they did during the 1960's and 1970's? 

Andrew

Finally got them and opened the box, Scott. They look good!

Lehigh Valley Railroad posted:

Looks good.

anyone have pictures of the bleed through csx?

I'll try and get you one once I take it out of its box. It doesn't photograph well in the plastic packaging.

DT&I is an odd road for me to be interested in, but I recall during my 1970's childhood watching DT&I auto-parts boxcars go by at the entrance of the Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line yard in Norfolk, VA, during summer visits to my paternal grandmother.

I'm hoping to chase down a CSX/DT&I/UP at TrainWorld tomorrow...if a fairly involved (post&crown following a root canal) dental appointment concludes early enough. Tried to make a run down there via subway from The Bronx this past Saturday, got there 15 minutes after they closed 

Couldn't even blame the MTA for that one

---PCJ

These cars look cool!  Would like to get a DT&I locomotive to pull them!

hclarke posted:

These cars look cool!  Would like to get a DT&I locomotive to pull them!

 

They are also huge! Wide curves a must and a long run too!

I did manage to get down to TrainWorld on Wedensday and picked up the CSX and UP models. As for the DT&I, the green (my first choice) and light blue without graffiti versions were reported sold out after the front counter employee printed the pick list for the warehouse. In light of this, I looked up what was available on my phone, and only the pink DT&I was left in a non-graffiti version, so I substituted that one, noting that a number of the other newly-arrived 86-footers were also missing. Funny thing was TW's computer terminal showed the green version available, but in between then and the stockroom employee's attempt to locate it, the last one must have been sold online and picked--they were there a couple of days ago, and all of them had just switched from "pre-order" to "New item" the previous Saturday when I refreshed my browser) 

While the above car isn't pertinent to the topic, I do note that this particular model was taken from a counter-top display by the employee gathering my requests from the warehouse. It wasn't immediately visible--it was sitting behind another of their six New York City "borough-themed" LionScale hoppers (the sixth was "Nassau Suffolk-LIRR") , so I wonder now if this was the last one in the store.

---PCJ

Mine arrived from Mario's and they are terrific!  I hesitated to enter the era of graffiti on my rolling stock but Lionel has done such a fine job on these that I had to allow 2 cars that were tagged.  Railroad police were apparently over at my new Menards Starbucks when this happened.  Seriously though, I am a huge fan of these 86' cars by Lionel. Here are pics of the ones just in. I decided to add an order for a non graffiti version of the CSX car and a blue DT&I.  Living in Ohio these auto industry boxcars were common.

falconservice posted:

How many more years are we going to have to wait for a C&O High-Cube 86' Boxcar that looks like they did during the 1960's and 1970's? 

Andrew

Lionel,  how about it!  Great idea !

Please send this idea directly into Lionel!

Hopefully Lionel will offer more of the 8 door versions as well.  Grand Trunk had sharp looking 8 door 86' cars with the silver doors and the GT in the middle of the car. I wasnt a fan of the all blue 4 door GT Lionel offered.  There are many more they can make.  CN, Detroit Toledo Shoreline, C&O.  How about some faded Penn Central with the logo removed and Conrail written over it.  Lionel has been great with these merger repaints in recent years.   I like the CSX over the faded C&O car.  I guess that could have been real but a Chessie over stamped with CSX would be totally likely.  I also commend Lionel on the use of painting one door or panel a former railroad.  This happens a lot.  We even see it in the airline industry when paint schemes change.  Sometimes panels, rudders, nose cones, of old paint schemes end up on a new paint scheme aircraft.  Excellent job Lionel!

Looking good!  Mine are scheduled to arrive tomorrow.  

😎

The next GRAND TRUNK WESTERN 86' boxcar that LIONEL can make are these.

Grand Trunk Western 8-door 86' high-cube boxcars that were built in 1965 and 1966 by Thrall Car

GTW 378000-378079

GTW 378080-378114

GTW 378115-378217

Built in 1967 by Pullman-Standard

GTW 378218-378251

Somebody at Canadian National had all of these retired by 2016.

The freight trains on the GTW railroad tracks do not look the same with all of them gone.

Andrew