Lionel's Conrail OCS cars. A Partial review.

Nice A-B comparisons. I'm sure a lot of folks will appreciate your efforts to stage the photos.

Jim

Set arrived here a few weeks back and I love it. No issues to report with the cars except one wheel set is a bit loud. Bottom line is this set is everything I wanted out of a Lionel Conrail OCS set. I am also looking forward to the Superdome and Theater car arriving. Also looking at a baggage car to convert to OCS 23 which was the Track Geometry support car. 

The icing on the cake would be a heavyweight observation to switch out with the theater car, but I'm thrilled with what we have so far. 

A great set. My wishlist for Lionel is getting short.

Thanks for the review!  I have the set + theatre car ordered as well.  

Looks like a nice set! I remember seeing this train between Port Jervis and Middletown NY.

Just as an FYI, unless I missed something, you were attempting to compare Lionel's delux gold to a decal.  I know from decaling my own cars, the color of the decal will change once it is applied to a painted surface.  I distinctly remember Champ in particular writing in the instructions that the "orange" decal would turn yellow once it was applied to  boxcar red freight car.  Lionel's color is probably what the decal will look like once it is applied.

Fred Brenek posted:

Just as an FYI, unless I missed something, you were attempting to compare Lionel's delux gold to a decal.  I know from decaling my own cars, the color of the decal will change once it is applied to a painted surface.  I distinctly remember Champ in particular writing in the instructions that the "orange" decal would turn yellow once it was applied to  boxcar red freight car.  Lionel's color is probably what the decal will look like once it is applied.

Actually I was comparing the Decal color to the Lionel delux Gold and MTH Gold lettering versions so Forumites can see the differences. The MTH Gold lettering MTH used is more off from the prototype than the Lionel delux gold.

Is the Conrail dome car supposed to arrive in the fall? I ordered the R&N version and it is. 

Will Ebbert posted:

Is the Conrail dome car supposed to arrive in the fall? I ordered the R&N version and it is. 

According to Charles Ro, the Full dome and Theater care are expected in October.