Did anyone go to the Lionel Retail Store for the sale that happened this past weekend? For anyone who did what things did you see/get? Were there any cool or unique refurbished engines? If you took pictures of the sale please post them. I would have went but I recently spent a lot of my train money on items and couldn't afford to go since I would have probably bought many things that I couldn't afford.
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@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:
Mike,
If you check Lionel's Facebook page they posted on September 24th that they were having a sale at their Retail Store with deals straight from their warehouse. Here's the link to their Facebook page:
I found a scale Polar Express Observation car. They had refurbished passenger cars and milk cars. I saw 3 NYC Vision Line Niagara. Not part of the sale, I saw a new Legacy 4014 Big Boy in the store. I also saw 4 VL New GS Locomotives.
Yeah I find it super funny can't hold the warehouse sale with plenty of room for social distancing but can allow a crammed retail space for a sale. Brilliant!!!!!!!
Everyone in the mall was practicing distancing plus masking requirement.
@LionelLegend posted:Mike,
If you check Lionel's Facebook page they posted on September 24th that they were having a sale at their Retail Store with deals straight from their warehouse. Here's the link to their Facebook page:
Sorry for the confusion. Since I don't do Facebook I didn't know about this. I thought that they were one and the same.
Hopefully others didn't make the same mistake, and miss out on the retail sale. But it still looks like we miss out on the warehouse sale, unless something changes.
Mike
@SouthernFan56 posted:Everyone in the mall was practicing distancing plus masking requirement.
Missing the point but hey I get lets just give everything away and accept it's all ok.
I went and picked up a LC+2.0 0-6-0t with a coupler issue and a few scale cars with damaged boxes. There were 3 Visionline Niagaras for about $1100 that I drooled over (metaphorically) but couldn't afford right now. A ton of set locomotives without boxes, several 21" passenger cars that seemed in perfectly good shape, a mix of Legacy and LionChief locomotives.
I went early on Saturday so there wasn't really a crowd. Probably 5-12 customers at any one point.
I'm glad I kept the day marked on my calendar even after they "canceled" the sale; it's a relatively short drive from Raleigh. The retail store employees were a bit irritated since this was sprung at the last moment and "those folks over there [the warehouse] just don't want to interact with the public."
Went to the Lionel retail store in Concord 10-3-21 to see what was left of the "warehouse sale" stuff that many people (including me) didn't know about.
Several Polar express cars (non scale), some Harry Potter items, several items (including Lion Chief engines) wrapped in bubble wrap that would take careful inspection of unwrapping to see what it was.
Next was several Lion Chief plus engines (boxed) of various types.
Saw no scale locomotives of any type except there were 5 US Military RR Lincoln Funeral 4-4-0's in the styrofoam packers with no outer box. Nothing written as to a defect on the container.
I wanted some 21inch smooth side passenger cars to paint, but there were none of those. There were however several fluted side cars. 5 four car Canadian Pacific sets, 1 four car Golden State set, 1 two car Penn Central merger add on set, 3 two car AFT display car sets (in the wrong boxes). I bought a CSX four car inspection train set - one car was missing people and one was missing a pickup on one truck.
A few various milk cars, and some one off freight cars.
I don't know the dates of this sale but I also got 15% more off due to being "Race Week".
I assume the store will ship, thought I'd give a quick run down of the majority of what I saw in case someone was interested and wanted to call.
Gray Lackey
@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:Sorry for the confusion. Since I don't do Facebook I didn't know about this. I thought that they were one and the same.
Hopefully others didn't make the same mistake, and miss out on the retail sale. But it still looks like we miss out on the warehouse sale, unless something changes.
Mike
I got an email from Lionel about the Store Sale so make sure you are signed up to get Lionel's emails.
I visited the store on Thursday, September 30th. I didn't see and signs advertising a sale, but there were many boxes of 50 loose Fastrak pieces for sale "As Marked." Never saw "As Marked." There were also several tables of boxed, open box, and no box cars and engines. At York, these would have covered 6-8 tables
The engines ran the gamut from Thomas to brass hybrid Centennial. There were both scale and semi-scale freight and passenger cars.
There were 3 or 4 operating layouts. The back 20% of the store was devoted to NASCAR.
My impression was that if this was a "normal" train store it could have fir comfortably in 20% of the space. I expat that the store will be packed with product and people at the holidays.
Jan
@Jan posted:I visited the store on Thursday, September 30th. I didn't see and signs advertising a sale, but there were many boxes of 50 loose Fastrak pieces for sale "As Marked." Never saw "As Marked." There were also several tables of boxed, open box, and no box cars and engines. At York, these would have covered 6-8 tables
The engines ran the gamut from Thomas to brass hybrid Centennial. There were both scale and semi-scale freight and passenger cars.
There were 3 or 4 operating layouts. The back 20% of the store was devoted to NASCAR.
My impression was that if this was a "normal" train store it could have fir comfortably in 20% of the space. I expat that the store will be packed with product and people at the holidays.
Jan
Much better deals at York.
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