Lionel Autoracks and Motor City Express ...Now with flashing ETD

Hello Lol. I just got them all cannot make up my mind which I want. I when little over broad I bought 18 2-pack. 2 each of the add on car. Plus two set full. My goal is to build a massive auto rack train. I saw a auto rack in Texas once. I was impress by the size of the train. Will take pictures later. Thanks

You see? My girl says my humor is so bad (dry) that no one thinks it's funny. Now You have to explain. Must be getting worse???

Yank are you saying you have 18 Autoracks total?   2 sets of 7, and two  2 paks='s. You are going have a great looking train. I think the  new Lionel cars will mix well with the MTH Autoracks. I ran some last night and thought they looked good.

Joe NO it's not dry humor it because YOU R GETTING OLDER

Paul I have not heard anyone talking about it anymore.

 

Hey I am going to see the RED WINGS TONIGHT

Bam, you smacked me again Bill! What'd do that fer??

Ha! mine's a bgger den yers!!

Hello I bought 18 2-pack = 36 cars. Plus 4 adds. I want something massive on my future layout. Thanks

Holly cow... that's a huge big investment. Massive? yeap going to be for sure. You must have a big layout?? I've got the Atlas, MTH and Lionels. just a few of each goes halfway around the place.

JOE i DID NOT HEAR THAT ANYONE WAS ASKING FUR OHH AHH SHOW N TELL EM

Hello I have no layout at this time. My goal is to collect as many std 0 trains as i can. I found I paid twice as on the second market. I realize this when husky stack came out I paid double for them on eBay. Thanks

 Yank, That's cool. I wish I had done that several times that I missed stuff. The guys here know because I'm still crying over my missed SD70ACE CSX!!! When I started I didn't know that they make so limited #s of stuff.

 Even if you don't run them soon, that's a good investment for the future. I'm jealous.

 

Originally Posted by Enginear-Joe:

... that's a good investment for the future. I'm jealous.

Reply By:RockyMountaineer

Let's keep it real folks.  Perhaps these may carry a "premium" for a few years after the initial inventory goes out the door... just like the TankTrain cars.  But now that Lionel is re-running them, I'd be surprised if anyone is foolish enough to pay a premium for the older cars anymore.  I grabbed one of the new tankers that just came out around Christmas, and it's a very nice car that holds its own in comparison to the ones produced several years ago.  

 

Buy 'em 'cause you like them... not because you think their gonna be something ultra-desirable years down the road.  Just sayin'.  

 

David

David, maybe he was just referring to the "investment" in having them for his future enjoyment.  I'm not sure his reference was monetary.  Sometimes items become hard to find.  I'd say that's pretty real!

Charlie I think you are right about what he was saying. A dealer might do something like that but I think as a hobbiest I would loose my shirt trying to do that.

Bill,

 

I'm glad that hockey is FINALLY back.  I watched the Blackhawks on TV today smack the defending Stanley Cup Champs, L.A. Kings.  I'm going to go watch my beloved 'Hawks against the Stars next Thursday night here in Dallas.  Hope you had fun at the Wings game tonight.

 

As far as the ETD on the BNSF auto rack goes, I guess I'm going to try to modify it much like Charlie did.  I wonder if the price drop on this set shortly after it was presented in the catalog was due to the unprototypical tank on the loco and the non-functional ETD after they were introduced.  Lionel mentions a working ETD in the servicing section in the back of the manual.  Nevertheless, I love this set and am glad that I bought it.

Charlie I was wondering where David's post was and never found it on the thread but had it in the email.

Running tomrrow dhould be fun I will look forward to see it here.

Where is the show tomorrow?

 

Take a look at the ride heigth of the MTH vs Lionel racks.

Charlie, look what you've started - 6 pages!

 

I wish I could make the show, but we are supposed to get socked with snow tonight.

 

Go Wings!!!

John23 are you on the water tonight? The Wings lost 6 t0 0 in St Louis.

Charlie started a GREAT thread with those new Autoracks.

No, thank God.  It's blowing gales tonight up here.  I'm off until spring. 

 

Re: the Wings, I'm hanging out in the basement and the Wife has command of the TV. 

Well, the Wings had better GO!  And get it together.

 

Charlie should kick the other car outside and take over the whole garage.

John if you could convince the wife.. I'd go for it

Bill, show tomorrow is in Auburn Hills.  I posted the flyer over in Announcements.

 

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Give her total control of the TV.  Works for me.

I'll let you know how that works out

Charlir thank you for the link. Have a great TRAIN DAY TOMORROW.

Paul I just watched it on TV...IT WAS HAED TO WATCH... The Stars come to the Joe Tuesday, This is not going to be a pretty season but I have train and a layout to work on

Bill,

 

The season will be short and be played at a furious pace.  At least teams won't be burnt out playing 82 games like they normally do by the time the playoffs begin.  But you're right, the trains will also have me occupied.  Happy Railin'!!

I heard Lionel shorted dealers on these and was told by my dealer I wasn't one of the lucky ones.  Found the Conrail single car and 2-pack at Trainworld.

 

David I think you've watched Conspiracy Theory too many times.  I re-posted your comments as I had already replied to your comment.  It's really as simple as that.

 

I ran the auto racks today and plan to get some video up later.  I'm returning to topic here.

Charlie very nice video and still pictures.

Thank you for posting.

 

WOW the Autoracks were really moving on the straights. How did they look and handel in the curves?

I liked the Santa Fe Steam and Diesel conbo. Do you kbow which mfg's passenger cars those were? It looked like it had led's in the cars.

 

How was the attendance at the event?

Pops, the racks did pretty good.  We had a couple errant coupler openings and the cars are sensitive to dips in the trackage.  We had one spot with a very severe dip that caused a derailment.  I spotted that and corrected the dip. After that the cars seemed to track just fine, even in the curves at  speed.

 

I'm not sure of the manufacturer of the Santa Fe cars, perhaps Jake will jump in as he friends with the member who owns those cars.

 

Attendance at the event today exceeded 3,000 according to the organizers.  I know we had families surrounding the layout all day.

I believe I saw Connor putting the Santa Fe streamliners into Lionel boxes.  I want to say they were the aluminum "El Capitan" set.

 

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Charlie glad the racks did pretty good. I don't think you added any weight to the cars. I had some cars that I put into the racks and they fit pretty well. I think they may have been some old K-Line cars and trucks.

 

Sounds like you had very good attendance, From the Video.pictures it did look like a good crowd.

 

Jake thank you very much. The passenger cars look very sharp

 

Boilermaker1...I have a two-pak of the UP cars.  You can have them for what I paid...around $165 plus shipping.

 

Let me know.

 

llineba@surewest.net

 just to clarify an earlier post....

show me a 2 rail CSX SD70ACe by MTH for sale....how about some of their twin stack sets..... sure then there were the short supply of Lionel tank train cars....

I think it's great to get what you want when you want it. It may not be there later on.  Who knows how many of these cars will be for sale down the road...maybe the (Chinese?) factory will close on them??

Joe

I was able to locate what I needed but have been told by these dealers that Lionel is going to re-make another run of additional cars, but will not be available until later this year- probably May or June. If you can find any, you hit the jackpot.

Jeff thanks, I have been thinking about a couple of more racks in CN&GT

Make sure your parallel tracks are sufficiently spaced when running these!

 

I saw charlie's etd Sunday and it looks great.  I kind of like the MTH double flash ETD so my question is:  is there a power pickup that would fit on the Lionel auto carrier truck?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks Bruce

I was told No.

I just ordered all of them. Has anyone measured the exact height of them from top of rail to top of car.  My MTH car carriers will not go through my older Miami bridge because they are a tad too high. Any help is always appreciated...................Paul