Lionel Warehouse Sale-Photos

Scott,  it was great seeing you at this LCCA Special Event hosted by Lionel.  Thnk you for posting these photos.  If any of you are in the Charlotte NC area tomorrow, you will definitely want to make a visit.  This event is open to the public on Saturday 11-9-13 from 8:00AM to 5:00 PM

Al K.

I was there last night and ended up getting stuck in traffic by the time I got there the with all the Thomas and Polar Express stuff was pretty much empty. I did find 2 18" Amtrak Amfleet coaches but my dad on the other hand had a field day, He got two 18" aluminum A.T.S.F passenger cars a case of 048 fast track curves some American Flyers cars and Train shed a $20 NYC 0-8-0 switcher and $5 Polar Express tender which he plans to re letter both engine and tender into A.T.S.F. and a bunch of Lionel Merchandise.

I sure appreciate the pictures and information. I will be more inclined to cross the mountain and visit next time. I  have had no idea of exactly what might be available and if it was worth the couple hundred miles and overnight stay.

Just returned home.  There were dozens of individuals with overflowing grocery store type shopping cars, so some were finding stuff.

The only prices I recall ZW-L for $650 and O36 & O54 remote FasTrack switches for $45 $50 respectively.

I arrived last night soon after they opened and thought I was still in rush hour traffic.  The room was packed and the bargains plentiful!  Scott's picture of the table of unboxed cars for $5 was soon empty, the stack of shelf worn Thomas Sets for $60 was quickly gone(unopened sets for $150),  the FastTrack options blownout.  various choices of rolling stock for $25 cleared away.  Lots of familiar faces, but I was too busy to put many faces and names together.  Thanks LCCA and Lionel for making the opportunity(and the drive) so worthwhile.

Wish I lived closer! 

--Greg

Yea me to.  Wish MTH would hold a warehouse sale.

Hi Scott,

Thanks for posting the pictures, I have to get to one of these Warehouse sales someday

Alex

Larry, you should have gone !!  My only motivation, was reading

Scotts 1st posting at 11:30 Friday night,  It was worded just a little bit different.

Covinced me !!!! and with 2 1/2 hrs sleep. off I went.  Put it this way,  I need to

begin the layout adjustments preparing for Legacy, system

Terry,

I reworded my original posting, the prices I listed were so good I was afraid Lionel may have not wanted them that publicly posted. I am glad you made it down. Looking back I wish I had gone the route of buying the complete starter sets for resell.

Scott Smith

Reading this post is like going to an all you can eat buffet on a diet.  I would have sacrificed my neighbor's left arm to go to this sale.  

Please torture me more...what were the deals like on Legacy or Vision steam? 

Yea, Scott, I kinda of figured on that,

Well, Luis, your supposed to read that LAST sentence,  of mine

but look at this way, I got home and looked everything up, and I nailed 4 of the 5 engines were signature Catalog (2013). Oh, and the boxes say Legacy!!!!! Can you hear me laughing all the way

over there, 2200 miles away.

My $20.00 Locomotive

$10.00 tender

Everything in this box was $5.00 each

$15.00 tender

I bought the non-scale Polar Express engine with the whistle steam for $95.00..it's still in the car in the box.

Scott Smith

I certainly can here you laughing!  And more importantly I can here those Legacy engines.  Nice score!!!  Hope you enjoy them in good health.  

Just as an idea, was walking towards check-out, and for sure, under my

goal, that I had wrote down, in car.  Thought a minute:  why not

Walked back over: and get the Freight car set in the picture, - 30157

went down the table, and still 2 boxes of Minn, loco (legacy), -38323 

got this set -- Just because of this year Hallmark ornament. They are up in

the closet, un opened.  And Loco (2010 catalog),  oops,  the cars (2013 Fall cat),

here's the teaser---  220.00  >   AND Why not  -- THANKS for info Scott !!

How often are these sales held? Is this the first and one and only or are there more planned and what is the schedule?

Thanks!

Dave

At least twice a year. Once in Canfield, OH during the customer service open house and in NC like this one. 

WOW

Canfield is only 87 miles from my house! How can I find out the dates of these sales?

I've been chasing those D&RGW coaches for a while.....I'd bought all I could carry for $5 each!!! Oh well.....

IF there is another open house event in Canfield, you can be sure you'll read about it here first.

I was speaking to a friend of mine about the $5.00 deals. He said was it really worth $5.00 to buy just train parts. Everything I bought was complete and working. Do these look like just parts?

Scott Smith

Look who stopped by the LCCA table during the Lionel Warehouse Sale LCCA Special Event on 11-8 in Concord NC.

Pretty good looking train parts.

Lionel should have a sale in the Philly area. Lots of customers here.

Mark

Scott,

Does Mrs. Smith know about your purchases?

Scott as they say, put expectations and one hand and poop in the other, and see which one fills up quicker.

What about some pictures of Angela? I saw her table there.

When is the next one?  I should really go to one of these, as I'm only 20 miles away

Did anyone find one of the Legacy Hotels for the guy looking for one?

If they would sell it slightly cheaper to ALL of us, would they need to have these blowout sales?

Just curious...if you put everything in that box in one train would if fit on your layout?

(I'm hinting that if it did, you oughta make a video of it for the weekly movie thread )

---PCJ

Here are some images of Angela and her husband Bob.

Yes, but from the pictures and Scott's description above, the prices appear much less in Carolina.  IIRC in Ohio, the freight cars were $10 (plastic trucks) and $15 (diecast), locomotives in OH were IMO not greatly reduced.  Some engine prices were the same or lower from some dealers than listed for Sale in OH.  So my thought is that the Carolina sale is designed to move all remaining odds & ends/refurbs/returned products/set break-ups before calendar year end and probably before their fiscal year end that I would guess to be no sooner than Feb/Mar.

Scott was at the LCCA event. They had some items there with very nice pricing.Think it was all gone Friday night. On saturday a nice  selection of items but nothing of what you saw in Scott's photos

As far as I know this is was the 2nd one in under a year that was open to the public. When we were there for the LCCA's Red Carpet Event back in March, one of the Ladies from Lionel who was working at one of the check counters told my wife that they had one of these open houses back before last Christmas.

In a way I'm glad that I could not be there for this one, I had a prior commitment and it's around a 8 hr. drive.

In March we wound up filling the minivan with no room to spare. And back in August in Canfield, Ohio we had less to bring back home. And now I have to save up for my Big Boys.