Just curious - has Lionel shipped out the matching heavyweight passenger car sets for their new Southern Crescent, Blue Comet, and Alton Limited Pacific's?
I may be after the Crescent or Alton locomotive, and would like to get either with the matching passenger set. I checked Lionel's website, and they're no longer in the shipping schedule, but I haven't seen any photos of them for sale or them actually on dealer shelves in the stores I've gone to.
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Neal Jeter just recently posted that Southern Crescent cars had shipped.
Klein's in Cockeysville, MD has them listed as available on their web site,
I received my Blue Comet heavyweights from Charlie Ro.
Does anybody know if the new Crescent cars have the same names on them as the old (2004) Crescent cars?
Yes. They have all shipped. Awaiting our last two sets.
Nicholas Smith Trains has the new Blue Comet 4-pack in their display case. Saw it yesterday (Thursday).
David
My Blue Comet cars came just before Christmas from Charles Ro but I'm still waiting on the Polar Express cars.
They have all shipped. I have received both my Blue Comet and Souther Crescent sets.
I own the older (2002 I think) seven car Alton Limited set, does anyone know if these newer cars match and do they have different names? A 9 or 10 car train would be pretty cool. 
... does anyone know if these newer cars match and do they have different names? ...
Assuming Lionel followed suit with how they issued the new Blue Comet cars, I'd say the new production run will match but have new names for the Crescent and Alton 4-packs.
For those who may be interested... these are the names from the 2002 Blue Comet:
baggage car: Barnard
coach1: Faye
coach2: Westphal
observation: Tempel
The #6-39082 two-pack included another coach Tuttle and a combine Halley. And the #6-15406 StationSounds Diner was named Gicobini.
I don't plan on purchasing the new Blue Comet 4-pack at this time, so I didn't catch the names on the cars I saw the other day in the store. But I know they were different from the cars released in 2002.
David
Well I just took the plunge and ordered the Crescent cars. I guess we'll see when they get here, if they have different names then the original.
At least there is a new baggage car... even though in the original 1:1 consist there was just an RPO and and combine, no baggage.
But, if the cars do have new names, I can have a pretty prototypical consist, given the original 7 cars, plus the new 3 (the new observation will obviously not be used).
The Blue Comet Car names are:
D'Arrest
Encke
Devico
Brorsen
For those Southern Crescent enthusiasts who have neither a loco nor cars yet, you may want to keep an eye out for MTH's new set due out VERY soon... comes with a premier PS-4 Southern steamer (PS/3) along with 4 heavyweight passenger cars -- all for an MSRP of $999.99. Product number is 20-3463-1. MTH has some great deals when they package locos along with freight/passenger cars as premier sets.
According to the MTH Facebook page, I think they've received an early sample of the loco already... with the sets due out in Feb 2013. Lots of nice photos on the Facebook page.
Nice to see MTH delivering American Steam again.
David
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