The LONG-AWAITED Lionel Milwaukee Road Passenger Cars are Shipping!!!

Thanks Dave,

 

This is great news

 

 

Alex

This is wonderful news. Now we will get our long awaited passenger cars. Thanks for posting this.

 

When someone receives their cars, please post them here so that we will know that we are not far behind.

So is it a full length dome?  Was it worth the wait?

Loco-Dan, that is a different set from K-Line by Lionel that was catalog'd in 2008.  Don't know if those were ever produced/delivered. 

 

The passenger set I'm referring to was first catalog'd with the Milwaukee Road S-3 steamer in late 2010.  The 4-pack is 6-25622 and the 2-pack is 6-25623.  Only the two-pack has shipped thus far, and the latest shipping schedule shows the four-pack slated for Sept 2013. 

 

I'm hoping Lionel did the full-dome vista like the exhibition trains running with 261 these days.  I should know tomorrow when the brown truck arrives , unless someone here has already seen them and chimes in here.

 

David

 

Mine are sitting at my LHS.  I just can't get there for a few days...  Hoping someone will post some pics of the dome.

Very good news.  Since I noticed the cars off the list a couple weeks ago I have been looking on the forum for a posting if it could be possibly be true that they shipped!  Look forward to getting them.  Hopefully we will see the 4 pack next month. 

UPS package arrived this morning... and I took a quick peek inside during our lunch-break.  Photos to follow later today or tomorrow, when I get some free time away from stuff we're working on deadline today... but here are some quick observations: 

 

• The 2-pack consists of a diner along with the full-dome "superdome" vista -- just as illustrated on Lionel's current website description.   YES!!! 
• The Superdome car has a full-length view of the detailed dome interior with standing conductor and about 14 seated passengers.
• I think the cars look absolutely terrific, but I will tell you right now that some folks will once again be complaining about Lionel's treatment of the windows.  They are NOT quite flush to the aluminum sides... but as I've always maintained this is not a problem at all.  And these cars appear to have a nice, simulated metal trim around the window perimeters.  If you don't like this approach, I'm sure these cars will be gone in a heartbeat anyway... so the discussion is completely irrelevant in the long run.

 

Bottom line... VERY pleased to see these finally... now to get the 4-pack with what will hopefully be a Cedar Rapids solarium observation!!!   And if we're lucky, perhaps even a StationSounds car down the road.   

 

David

 

 

Woohoo!  Perhaps mine are on the way too. I received 2 messages from Charles Ro today saying that parcels are on their way to me, but I don't know what they have sent me yet. (I have a lot of back/pre-orders.)

Good News!

Nicole, I wouldn't at all be surprised if one of those parcels is the two-pack.  It weighs about 11 pounds, if that helps you identify a package that's en route.  

 

Dealers have been STARVING to receive Lionel rolling stock this year, so the business-minded ones are gonna turn this stuff around quicker than ever.  In some cases, they'll be shipping them out the same day they receive them ... Once they get a credit card approval code, that is.  

 

David

Thanks David. It feels like the days before Christmas. In only a couple of weeks, I'll be able to play with my new toys. 

I received the cars today. Just like David said, these are amazing cars! Can't wait for the 4-pack. Here are some photos.

 

 

Maybe we should take a lottery on which day or date the 4 pack will ship. After seeing these pictures, I cannot wait to get these and the other 4.

Wow!  Those look great !

Oh no! Not those windows again!

 

Yep, windows still not fixed means Lionel 18" aluminum passenger cars are still off the menu for me. I'll pay the premium for the 21" K-Line or Weaver Sets.

Actually the windows for Milwaukee Road that is correct, I have some windows from Milw Pass cars at the Museum I can take pictures.  The way K-line did the windows on their milw cars are wrong, Milw Rd screwed their window frames to the car from the outside.

The windows actually look a lot better than the prototype.

That's fine and good, but the glass itself certainly does not protrude several inches from the car body and glow green around the edges. That's the error Lionel has made with these cars for years now. Most people don't mind and some even get very angry when it's criticized. They are just too goofy looking for me to ever consider the cars.

 

Breezinup,

 

Those are the WORST windows I've ever seen!!!    If Lionel made them like that, I wouldn't even think about purchasing the cars.    Talk about goofy-looking. 

 

David

Roger, FWIW, the date-stamp on the shipping carton for the 2-pack indicates May 31, 2013... roughly 2 and 3/4 months from the time I received this package.  I'm guessing Lionel probably took delivery of them in NC a week or two ago.

 

Since the shipping schedule is indicating Sept 2013 for the 4-pack, you'd think Lionel would at least KNOW that the cars have been made and shipped on the water by now.  But we never seem to get that kind of "authoritative" information from Lionel these days.  I'm not even sure the dealers get that level of info anymore. 

 

One thing is for certain though... when the dealers receive the 4-packs, they'd be shipping them right out to consumers on the same UPS truck that delivered them to the store if they could!!!    The dealers are STARVING for revenue this year.

 

David

Ned,  thanks for posting photos of the cars!!!

 

David

I've posted this before. What is Lionel thinking with these windows. This is what they should look like. Don

Well, personally I don't care what any of you may find to complain about regarding these coaches.

 

They look absolutely beautiful as far as I am concerned, and I can hardly wait to receive mine and finally be able to put them into service behind my F7's. 

Those windows look horrible.Lionel is so lucky they have customers willing to pay big money for flawed products.

Kato and other manufacturers can get the windows right on streamlined passenger cars in N and HO. Lionel, what's the problem???

Dan posted:

Those windows look horrible.Lionel is so lucky they have customers willing to pay big money for flawed products.

LOL, while that may be true, is there ANY O gauge manufacture that you Can't say this about? I can't think of one...I guess we are a pretty forgiving crowd.

 

Charlie

I've just received confirmation from Charles Ro that my coaches are on the way.

 

Also, 2 locomotives are on their way to me. One of which is a Dash-9 that was originally not expected until december. 

The windows do look funky, don't they?  If enough people refuse to buy the cars on account of the windows, then Big L will fix them.  Vote with your wallets, people.

 

 

Hi,

 

My Dash-9 is the second number of the NS models. (The other locomotive on the way is the second number NS SD40 model.)

 

Ho ho. Of course no one would purchase it. I think this car was dedicated for use in transporting prisoners, and also unruly passengers!

It will be interesting to see how well these sell given the window issue.  Major disappointment to say the least.

 

All of this complaining about a perceived problem with the windows brings me to ask the question 'Does anyone who actually has these coaches in their possession have a problem with them?' 

 

From the photographs that I have seen so far, the windows look fine. They have a nice metallic frame around them, and barely protrude from the bodyshell. I can hardly wait for mine to arrive.

It's all about each of our individual preferences and priorities for the models we buy. If you don't care about the windows then you buy them and are happy. If they are too glaring to you then you take your business elsewhere.

One thing is for certain though. The windows are badly flawed. It's a fact, not a "perceived problem".

Really difficult to see from the above photos what is wrong with the windows.  At least they are making the attempt at flush windows with rims.

 

if you mean window arrangements, I am out of the club.  My memory is not good enough, so as long as the windows look reasonable I am ok.  When I cut my own, I try to get them correctly sized and positioned.

 

What I see is better colors.  K- Line had a muddy brown Maroon color.  Looks like Lionel brightened it up a bit and added black pin stripes?

Well, I have the KCS Southern Belle cars and E units on order...I guess those windows are what I'm going to get...

 

It will, however, dissuade me from getting the upcoming Pocahantas set.

>> Looks like Lionel brightened it up a bit and added black pin stripes?<<

 

Mind if I ask which MR engine were those cars prototypically designed to run with?

Seems like they'd go best with the Hiawatha Hudson or the DL'109's not the $261 Mountain. 

BTW, The windows would be the least of the issues I have with Lionel. The green glass on the Comet cars was a far worse problem.

Joe