Any thoughts on the Lionscale cars. The price seems good and I think they are made in North Carolina. How is the quality? Would like to buy a set and looking for information
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To bad more Lionel is not made in North Carolina.
It's old Weaver tooling....altered some for Lionel trucks. Good stuff.
Price wise comparable with the old Weaver prices. Printing process a bit different then the old pad printing. Nice to be able to get more then one number.............Paul
The cars, all ex Weaver models, are made somewhere in Pennsylvania and painted in North Carolina, according to Lionel.
But there has been talk that Lionel is adding a production facility in North Carolina. I have read nothing official on that point.
LionScale bodies are molded in Pennsylvania.
LionScale trucks come from China.
LionScale painting, decorating, and assembly takes place in North Carolina at Lionel's facility.
Stu
Nice cars. I have a few. you wont go wrong adding a few of these to your roster.
jim sutter posted:No bad more Lionel is not made in North Carolina.
What????
The Weaver based Lionscale cars are a fragile design, some were delivered with damaged frame and/or trucks.
The trucks are also Weaver design and are not completely diecast like Lionels previous trucks. The trucks have the ugly thumbtack uncouplers instead of Lionels hidden uncoupling mechanism.
Its great Lionel has brought at least part of the manufacturing back here to the States, its just too bad they couldn't make use of the superior quality overseas freight car tooling.
If you search the forum, the Lionscale cars were discussed extensively.
I think it would be a good idea if you had a LHS were you could see the cars first hand and decide for yourself.
I have 6 or 7 Lionscale Cars no issues with any of them and for the price I would buy more
RickO posted:The Weaver based Lionscale cars are a fragile design, some were delivered with damaged frame and/or trucks.
The trucks are also Weaver design and are not completely diecast like Lionels previous trucks. The trucks have the ugly thumbtack uncouplers instead of Lionels hidden uncoupling mechanism.
Its great Lionel has brought at least part of the manufacturing back here to the States, its just too bad they couldn't make use of the superior quality overseas freight car tooling.
If you search the forum, the Lionscale cars were discussed extensively.
I think it would be a good idea if you had a LHS were you could see the cars first hand and decide for yourself.
One minor correction, RickO...the new LionScale trucks are all Lionel (Mike Reagan-era), definitely not Weaver. They were designed exclusively by Lionel after they purchased the former-Weaver USA tooling, supposedly to make 2-rail conversions easier. We could only wish they were of the same quality as the former Weaver die-cast sprung trucks. The Weavers were made by MTH and they are pretty much bulletproof!!
I'm just not seeing the "fragile design" thing.
The trucks make them a non starter for me.
RickO posted:The Weaver based Lionscale cars are a fragile design, some were delivered with damaged frame and/or trucks.
The trucks are also Weaver design and are not completely diecast like Lionels previous trucks. The trucks have the ugly thumbtack uncouplers instead of Lionels hidden uncoupling mechanism.
Its great Lionel has brought at least part of the manufacturing back here to the States, its just too bad they couldn't make use of the superior quality overseas freight car tooling.
If you search the forum, the Lionscale cars were discussed extensively.
I think it would be a good idea if you had a LHS were you could see the cars first hand and decide for yourself.
I received some of those early damaged cars, and it looked like the cast flange of the truck's bolster broke in shipping, leaving them free to fly around and smash the bodies. This happened because they weren't properly secured. Lionel corrected that problem in subsequent shipments.
I have a couple of small gripes with some of the boxcars I got. The plastic used on the Railbox cars appears to be an unpainted yellow, giving them a slightly translucent look. Cheesey! 
The printer they use for the lettering is really cool, and does a nice white. My other problem was with the CSX cars. The yellow lettering seemed very washed out, compared to other CSX cars I own. I'm not sure if it was simply a bad choice by Lionel, or the printer couldn't do a richer yellow. It may have been the former.
All the hoppers I got were very nice.
Still waiting on reefers. I swear I ordered a bunch of them.
Still waiting for the flatcars too.
zwbob posted:Still waiting for the flatcars too.
Thanks, then it's not my imagination.
Jeff, you don't have to buy the whole six pack. They do offer individual cars, but there are six different road numbers.
What scale are the they - are they Traditional O or Standard O (1:48)???
They are O scale. 1/48....…...Paul
Thanks all for the replies. Don’t have a hobby store nearby so I have to go on all the opinions. They sound ok and I think I’m going to get a 6 pack. Thanks again for the advice.
Rod Miller,
Sorry, my comment should of read to bad more Lionel is not made in North Carolina.
jim sutter posted:Rod Miller,
Sorry, my comment should of read to bad more Lionel is not made in North Carolina.
So,,,,,,,,,,,,you REALLY mean "....too bad........"?
HOT WATER,
Yes, I would love to see more Lionel trains made here in America.
Jim, so would I.
Was the gondola 6 pack ever released ?
Bill
When Weaver made those cars you could get 12 different numbers per run.
