The lionel shipping schedule has been updated today and it looks like the new Legacy Berks have fallen off the schedule. Perhaps they have shipped! One can only hope!
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Looks like the "VL" PFE Reefer 3-pack (6-81142) has slid to January.
VL Big Boys are still showing DEC 14! I can't wait to get mine. 
Berks were supposedly on the water before York..... so I think there is a good chance they are in NC or on the way out to the distributors. Excited for this one!
Wow! really excited for the NKP!
Unfortunately the Legacy AC-12s, including the Daylight, have slipped to December. On Lionel's past form I doubt that they'll be arriving in time for Christmas itself. Bummer.
When I spoke to Charles Ro this morning, they are expecting the Berkshires and the SP Daylight Cab Forward on December 12th. There is a very big shipment coming in.
My guess is you will have pour Berk and Cab Forward before Christmas Day.
Originally Posted by Hancock52:
Unfortunately the Legacy AC-12s, including the Daylight, have slipped to December. On Lionel's past form I doubt that they'll be arriving in time for Christmas itself. Bummer.
Don't jump to that conclusion (yet). True that Lionel's shipping schedule dates typically imply dealers will see them early the following month. HOWEVER, Lionel has been known to ship product on a weekly basis as the year winds down. So expect a ton of stuff to be shipping in the next 6 weeks. Time to pay the piper, boys and girls.
OTOH, reality has finally hit... and MANY products originally slated for delivery in 2014 are now showing 2015 dates -- particularly the 18" aluminum passenger cars, many of which are now pushed into the 2nd half of 2015. No real surprise there.
David
My 765 for under the tree...PERFECT!
Marty, you forgot this. 
That's great news.
The only gripe I have is (and it may have hurt Lionel's sales overall); I did not pre-order the E8 Rock Islands in fear of all of the items would come in at once. Now that they have delayed them, I probably will not find them.
Originally Posted by J Daddy:
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The only gripe I have is (and it may have hurt Lionel's sales overall); I did not pre-order the E8 Rock Islands in fear of all of the items would come in at once. Now that they have delayed them, I probably will not find them.
Have no fear... Give Charlie Ro a call. They still show them on their website for pre-order. And Lionel is now quoting an ETA of Feb/Mar 2015.
Charlie ordered a bunch of BTO stuff beyond their customer-confirmed pre-orders just for guys like you (and me). I ordered my MKT E-8's and MKT 18" passenger cars to build a new Texas Special train, and I ordered them after Lionel's official BTO deadline. But Charlie came through for me (again)!!!
David
Hmm, the reefers all got pushed back, not good as they now all come at the same time as the BB. That'll put me in a squeeze. But they still don't have a date for the aux tender.
I hear ya about the aux tenders. Unless I'm not searching properly, none of the C2 projected dates are on there.
Well now it looks like most of the aluminum passenger cars are moved back into next year except for the Pocohantas' Passenger Set which shows Dec. 14. I guess that means most likely that set is also going to be pushed back into next year. So I will be looking at getting a new pass. set next year with a over 2 year old engine, since the engines were built at the beginning of last year.
The Volume 2 2014 PS-1 Boxcars are not on the shipping schedule.
Andrew
Originally Posted by Passenger Train Collector:
When I spoke to Charles Ro this morning, they are expecting the Berkshires and the SP Daylight Cab Forward on December 12th. There is a very big shipment coming in.
My guess is you will have your Berk and Cab Forward before Christmas Day.
PTC, you're always a beacon of light and good grace on this forum so I thank you for giving me hope that the Daylight AC-12 will be available before I expect it will be!
Once it does arrive, I am plotting to post a video (my first here) of a fantasy SP excursion train, which will most definitely not be for purists. Watch this space.
Originally Posted by Hancock52:
Originally Posted by Passenger Train Collector:
When I spoke to Charles Ro this morning, they are expecting the Berkshires and the SP Daylight Cab Forward on December 12th. There is a very big shipment coming in.
My guess is you will have your Berk and Cab Forward before Christmas Day.
PTC, you're always a beacon of light and good grace on this forum so I thank you for giving me hope that the Daylight AC-12 will be available before I expect it will be!
Once it does arrive, I am plotting to post a video (my first here) of a fantasy SP excursion train, which will most definitely not be for purists. Watch this space.
I have a book with a photo of an express being pulled by not one, but two Cab Forwards so I don't think the 'fantasy' coloring is really too far out.
Originally Posted by sinclair:
I have a book with a photo of an express being pulled by not one, but two Cab Forwards so I don't think the 'fantasy' coloring is really too far out.
So, exactly how does a photograph of doubleheaded Cab Forwards justify a fantasy paint job on one?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Rusty
"except for the Pocohantas' Passenger Set which shows Dec. 14. I guess that means most likely that set is also going to be pushed back into next year."
Matt Ashba confirmed at the TCA Museum Presentations that other than the CZ and Pocahontas sets, all other 18" Lightweight sets are scheduled for delivery in 2015.
Originally Posted by Rusty Traque
So, exactly how does a photograph of doubleheaded Cab Forwards justify a fantasy paint job on one?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Rusty
The answer is that it doesn't but that's not the point. My fantasy/fantastic consist will have nothing to do with prototypical accuracy. The vast majority of the prototypes only exist in photographs, models and the imaginations of railway enthusiasts; thank goodness there is at least that much remaining of the great age of American locomotives and passenger cars. I imagine a Daylight GS4 and cab forward pulling a passenger train made up of disparate Lionel, 3rd Rail and K-Line cars. Purists will be appalled!
Not to dampen y'all's expectations but, there is a serious dockworker labor issue that has boiled over at the west coast ports in the past week. The dock workers have been without a contract for a while now and have been staging slowdowns so severe the container lines have simply taken to "firing" entire crews and sending them home. This has resulted in ships going consecutive shifts without being worked. The backup in the Pacific Northwest is so severe BNSF has embargoed all intermodal traffic to Seattle, Portland and Tacoma.
Curt
Curt
Not many of the Volume 2 items are even listed.
Juniata Guy is correct about the stevedore strike on the west coast. I live in L.A. and it is news out here but may not have gotten attention back east yet.
It looks like we will have to wait for December for the new Lionel items to be delivered.
Andrew
