I see these cars are at dealers now. Has anybody seen them that can comment? A picture would be highly appreciated.
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3 packs or 6 packs?
your right they are 6 packs. I fixed the Topic line
The new Lionel Chicago & North Western ore car sets have arrived in stores. The colors are much more accurately brighter or lighter than the 2006 CNW ore car from Lionel. They put die-cast trucks on the new CNW ore cars. The logo is only one color on the ore cars in the 6 pack.
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Plastic bodies?
Yes. They have to be plastic bodies.
The die-cast ore cars that were produced back in the 1990's were extremely heavy.
Any O gauge locomotive can pull the entire set of 6 ore cars.
Andrew
The Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range ore car set of 6-cars. 
The ore car on the far left of the photo is the Williams by Bachmann DM&IR ore car.
Andrew
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I like that they are producing sets of cars like this w/different road numbers. Looks cool. I do notice that the Bachman car is larger. Not knocking your railroad. I have purchased hoppers (love hoppers) of all the O scale manufacturers and have found that there is no continuity of scale even when the maker claims that their cars are 1:48. My bad, I guess, for not assuming that. This is funny. I wanted 55 ton 2-bay hoppers and got some of each Atlas, MTH, Lionel but could never run them together as the sizes of all 3 are so different. Naturally I'm sorry I ever started down that road. There's another thread about scales right now and it seems there's not much agreement among manufacturers on this. Sorry for hijacking your thread, thought maybe others have been frustrated by this, too.
Phil,
I see your post as relevant and a good point for folks to be aware of regarding the variety of sizes. The six packs are a great way to ensure consistency if that's important to some.
Are the loads removable from the cars? I just ordered a 6 pack off of amazon for 78.00 and couldn't pass up the deal.
Going for the six pack is the way to go. If they did those in a B&M livery I’d be all over it.
Chris it definitely is. This was a pure impulse buy that I just stumbled upon.
@Zaine Venable posted:Are the loads removable from the cars? I just ordered a 6 pack off of amazon for 78.00 and couldn't pass up the deal.
Where did you find that on Amazon? The cheapest I see is $90 for the Milwaukees. (Unfortunately, the DMIR I wanted are sold out, apparently.)
Breezinup I just ordered the great northern pack for 78.00 and free shipping off of amazon 2 hours ago and now the same thing is 128.00 I dont know if I got lucky or how that happened.
After your post earlier I seen them for the $78 on Amazon, which is a incredible deal but I don't have space for what I already have!
Well done Zaine - enjoy. Can't go wrong at $13 a car.
Jim
@Zaine Venable posted:Breezinup I just ordered the great northern pack for 78.00 and free shipping off of amazon 2 hours ago and now the same thing is 128.00 I dont know if I got lucky or how that happened.
Amazon's amazing algorithm raises prices on high traffic items without any human intervention.
Thanks jim, I've been lucky with deals lately. Last week I picked up a brand new K Line crusader set at a yard sale for 100.00
Are these the onces made in Vietnam? I heard that some things were
coming from there.
The six pack of hoppers were made in Vietnam.
Coal hoppers that is. Not sure of anything else.
Yes.
The package has MADE IN VIETNAM on the back.
Andrew
