Lionel Scale 89' Auto Rack Sale at Nassau Hobby Center

Great price, that's for sure!

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Great price, that's for sure!

Ahhh.... but if we only new what Lionel pays its factory to make these!!!    Then again, we'd all be in need of serious therapy if we knew that little nugget of information. 

I agree though... these are better-than-York prices.

Where did you FIND all of these, Charlie??? 

That is a super bargain for Lionel's top of the line rolling stock.

Rocky Mountaineer posted:

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Great price, that's for sure!

Ahhh.... but if we only new what Lionel pays its factory to make these!!!    Then again, we'd all be in need of serious therapy if we knew that little nugget of information. 

I agree though... these are better-than-York prices.

Where did you FIND all of these, Charlie??? 

Working in the plastic model hobby the tooling cost on those monsters has to be mind blowing!!!! Add to it the limited number of modelers in the market for those auto racks. I like them but will pass as just to big for my O-72 layout. I bet many are bought and put on display only.....which I'd do too if not for the price....to high for a display only car.  Good deal....wish I had a few...or the layout to run them! 

Hey Charlie. I want to buy but your "on-line" form will not allow it. I am a little fat-fingered when I type but every time I fill out your form.....it does not seem to understand that I live in the USA.

I tried and reset the form 4 times, then I gave up.

Every tab turns "green" except the "Country" one...for whatever reason...... then it gives me an error message that says the text does not match, or something like that.

I know I can call but not here in the office where I am stuck all day.

Donald

This only confirms that you will not see these being made again. They are just too big for most 3 rail layouts.

Buy them up now because you may never see them again. 

Dave

I don't believe these cars will" not be made again" . There's too many roadnames not yet made, and the 2nd release sold quite well. I'm very happy with the 27 cars I have....

Jim Berger posted:

I don't believe these cars will" not be made again" . There's too many roadnames not yet made, and the 2nd release sold quite well. I'm very happy with the 27 cars I have....

Correct.....That tooling is to costly to scrap already. This is normal hobby biz 101. You price at the max market will bare, sell through the majority of them....blow out the rest. Now you know what roads sell or have an idea of roads to produce next run. SOP really. 

I do like the SOO LINE. I was hoping for the version with the SOO LINE name or logo already on the car.

I would have to figure out a way to apply the SOO LINE name and SOO logo to the screens. 

Andrew

These auto carriers operate fine on O-72 curves. 

I need them with the 1970-1991 TRAILER TRAIN era graphics, such as Norfolk and Western, SCL, Rio Grande, CNW "Safety Yellow", Burlington Northern.  

THE ROCK in blue  with the large R logo is one that has yet to be made. 

Andrew

Online order form still does not work...here is the error message:

Great deal! If I didn't have O54 max curves I'd be all over these. I know they will probably run fine on O54 but have massive overhang.

Give us a call if you can’t work the web site. 

I love these cars .I have 19 of them. Look great for a modern train which my grandaughters see running behind there grandmothers house. They are sooper smooth and quiet. Wish they had roller bearing trucks and a end of trains device which was advertised in the motor train express but didn't.  Found out latter at York the trucks were scale and the end of train device would not fit.

Thanks! 

I gave up on the website too. Hope I get time to call today. I love the way the couplers spread apart on these cars in the curves. My hats off to the inventor.

Online order just worked for me.  Thanks Charlie for a Christmas present as none of my other Lionel products will make it in time!

I have some of the 86' boxcars, and they are nice, but the overhang even on O72 is significant.  The coupler design on those 86' cars is fantastic, I assume these are exactly the same design?

Do these track as well as the 86' boxcars, better, or worse?

Yes they track quite well? 

Great price but I already have what you have left. I'm running 10 of these right now on my layout. Hope the next production run includes BNSF orange.

3rail 2 posted:

Online order form still does not work...here is the error message:

Error: The characters you typed do not match the characters in the picture. Please try again. I have no idea what that means.

Oh well, I tried.

Donald

 

This might be caused by not typing in the characters in the captcha picture.

On the Naussau website is this warning message:

"DO NOT USE INTERNET EXPLORER TO PLACE ORDERS. YOU WILL NOT SEE THE CAPTCHA AND WONT BE ABLE TO PLACE YOUR ORDER!"

Not using IE is good advice no matter what!!!

Site is working. Placed my order. After starting an account, be sure to open the verification email that is sent. I think that was my mistake the first time around. Thanks for the great price Charles. 

There is no doubt Lionel will continue to produce these. Look at ebay prices. Through the roof. I have two, love them, and want more. Price is the only thing holding me back, but I think they are worth it. My only complaint with the cars is I would've preferred wire metal grab irons instead of molded plastic. In a perfect world the sides would be metal too. Would improve the see through effect and color, but I understand that would drive the price tag even higher.

TexasSP posted:

I have some of the 86' boxcars, and they are nice, but the overhang even on O72 is significant.  The coupler design on those 86' cars is fantastic, I assume these are exactly the same design?

Do these track as well as the 86' boxcars, better, or worse?

i have the 86' boxcars as well and both types of cars track equally well ,for me anyway.i'm running atlas 099 and 106 curves.....

Jim Berger posted:

TexasSP posted:

I have some of the 86' boxcars, and they are nice, but the overhang even on O72 is significant.  The coupler design on those 86' cars is fantastic, I assume these are exactly the same design?

Do these track as well as the 86' boxcars, better, or worse?

i have the 86' boxcars as well and both types of cars track equally well ,for me anyway.i'm running atlas 099 and 106 curves.....

I can say the same about my O-72

Some items are gone, but plenty left to grab at these great prices!

CN and Soo individual cars are now all sold out! Still have two packs and CP left in individual or two packs! 

Received my auto carriers yesterday in A-1 condition. Thanks again for the great deal. After reading the story CTT did on the store, it looks like Chris is the one to be thanked. Great way to draw attention Chris and good luck at the helm.

Bummer I missed out on the CN version but as with many O scale freight cars, it will pop up again somewhere.

The CN paint scheme version that somebody at Lionel chose was a post 2000 scheme, after the CONRAIL split. 

The current people at Lionel will have to find photos of CANADIAN NATIONAL CNA auto carriers painted between 1974 and 2000 that had the CANADIAN NATIONAL name on the right end of the flat car and the CNA reporting marks with road number on the left end of the flat car. There are some photos on-line if people search hard enough.  I took a few photo in the 1990's that I will have to search through. 

Andrew

Thanks Dave and glad you enjoyed the story! 

Here’s Johnny, Farmerjohn 

Still have a few left!  Best price ANYWHERE!

A ton went out yesterday!