Lionel items dropped or changed

Yes... I was wondering why the Lionel online shipping schedule has been listing (and still shows) the 6-11181 CN Piggyback Set with an August 2014 shipping date  when the set shipped to dealers some time ago.

Thanks for the updates, Charlie.

David

681623 - DC Comics Boxcar #1

Interesting in that this item never was cataloged.

Ed, there were 2 DC boxcars that were planned

6-81436 Intermodal Containers has already been produced and released.

Andrew

The CN piggyback set has been available at dealers for months. I guess this memo means the run was split and they aren't finishing it?

Phew glad those two cool traditional sets made with PW tooling made the cute...like the B&M freight...

Thanks Charlie for the update. I was a little surprised that two of the PE Heavyweights will not be produced. With all the clamor for the scale 1225, I though these would sell very well.

Possible... But with all the scheduling complexities surrounding overseas factory production these days, importers have enough trouble trying to get trains -- especially sets -- produced (and shipped) once let alone attempt a split production run.  I guess we'll never know the real story here, but one thing is for sure... there's certainly no shortage of occurrences that leaves us shaking our heads in amazement at all the stuff that just makes no sense these days.  

David

PTC, these two cars actually were produced fairly recently.  The Combo car was part of the most recent production run that included the diner.  And the Abandoned Toy car was part of the production run prior to that which also included the baggage car.  Most of these later PE cars are still available at dealers these days.  But the earlier-produced cars that included the observation car are the tough ones to find today.  So hopefully Lionel won't back off on the scheduled production re-run that includes the observation car.

David

Yes, I ordered the baggage, observation, combo, diner, and coach from a dealer this spring and was surprised when a few weeks later, the baggage, combo, and diner cars were at my door.  I thought I was going to be waiting for all of them the end of this year.  It was a nice surprise.

I am also shocked that the PE cars are going to be cut.  I thought there were quite a few of us who missed out on the PE scale trains the last time and would jump in and get the whole collection this year like I did.