Lionel Amtrak Acela Shipping

2/25/22 thru 3/10/22 id say

What catalog were these pictured in? Are they Legacy command? Thank you

Larry

  They were in the 2021 Signature Catalog. Yes Legacy 2 Powered engines

JohnB

According to the Lionel store, it says it should arrive at Lionel's HQ in Concord the last week of February. It usually takes about two weeks from that date so I would guess around mid-March

@JohnB, thank you, I’ll look them up. I hope someone will post a video of this new set when it arrives. Happy Railroading Everyone

Thanks RJ, btw like your channel!

Exciting. I preordered the set and add on cars from Charles Ro. Don't care for the TMCC one with sliding doors.

As of February 2nd, here are posted dates for Acela availability:

- Lionel Train Store  2/25/22

- Charles Ro 3/10/22

- Trainworld 4/30/22

Updates to posted Acela availability dates:

Charles Ro   -   pushed back to 4/4//22

Trainworld   -   still 4/30/22

Lionel Train Store    -   once we passed 2/25 that date was taken down, but no new date has been posted.                                              Still shown as a Pre-Order Item

Looks like the acelas are on lionels store. Hopefully dealers will get them soon!

Better take my credit card out of my wallet.  It's going to get hot when the charge from Charles Ro for the Acela and expansion pack hits it.

anyone got a video of the polar express version ?

my friend and i are anxious to hear the sounds of this one.

plus i want to see if all acela sets have a female engineer as i know the santa fe one does

i really wish the Union pacific one had made it through

i was really suprised the prr , new haven and milwaukee ones got cancelled because those seemed more plausable as amtrak could have very well painted an acela in pennsy or new haven colors

i guess the santa fe one made people think of the california high speed rail project and if it had existed before BNSF

i know the UP version gave me vibes of a line from phoenix to LA

unfortunately as we all know the union pacific one didn't make it and even if it did the Allegheny and western doesn't have the infastructure for it at this time even though there is talk in management circles about a high speed line in the desert the pace of the project has been even slower than our rivals brightline west , california high speed and texas central combined.

just hoping lionel makes a lionchief acela and then maybe Fenix Starr Transport can compete in the American high speed rail market.

the acelas are in at trainworld and legacy station guyz!

I got an email yesterday my order was in at Nassau Hobbies, and it shipped to me today.

Nice.  Looking forward to seeing pictures / clips of the new Acela running.  

@Bill Sherry posted:

I got an email yesterday my order was in at Nassau Hobbies, and it shipped to me today.

which version did you get?

Amtrak

@Bill Sherry posted:

Amtrak

did you get to run it yet?

I didn't even receive it yet.  I will be away this weekend so probably sometime next week.  I am sure someone else will post it before I get to it. 

Bens_Trains_ on Instagram has several posts with his new Acela (Note: they force you to login with Instagram or Facebook, both are owned by the same parent company, Meta):

- https://www.instagram.com/tv/C...utm_medium=copy_link
- https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb...utm_medium=copy_link
- https://www.instagram.com/reel...utm_medium=copy_link

Bryce