Received the new Inside Track today and for the first time ever the club exclusive is an AF Boxcar. 937 MKT.
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Yeah, you have to wonder, though, how many LRRC "members" are interested in that.
Does seem like an odd choice. Originals are easy to come by for under $60 and Lionel already did this car in an all yellow version in the 90s
They probably chose it because it's one car that hasn't been reproduced yet, rather than it's "rarity." Lionel once did an MKT boxcar, but it was green with a silver roof.
Rusty
Lionel actually did reproduce the 937 already, back in 1998. It was item number 48332 and was all yellow. So the only difference now is probably the brown roof and ends
Ooops, sorry. Haven't been paying much attention to the "Traditional" side for a while.
Maybe a 970 Seaboard walking brakeman car would have been a better idea...
Rusty
I belonged to the LCCA, but only for a year or so. It got old looking at all the articles that I had no direct interest in. I like all kinds of trains, but it did get old seeing just Lionel items.
Is there some way a photo can be posted here? It might be interesting for all of us to see it.
Jerry P
AF and Hirail in Wayne, MI
Is there some way a photo can be posted here? It might be interesting for all of us to see it.
Jerry P
AF and Hirail in Wayne, MI
Originally Posted by poniaj:
I belonged to the LCCA, but only for a year or so. It got old looking at all the articles that I had no direct interest in. I like all kinds of trains, but it did get old seeing just Lionel items.
Is there some way a photo can be posted here? It might be interesting for all of us to see it.
Jerry P
AF and Hirail in Wayne, MI
Is there some way a photo can be posted here? It might be interesting for all of us to see it.
Jerry P
AF and Hirail in Wayne, MI
It's Lionel RailRoader Club, not Lionel Collectors Club of America.
Rusty
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Originally Posted by FlyerMike:
Does seem like an odd choice. Originals are easy to come by for under $60 and Lionel already did this car in an all yellow version in the 90s
I agree, it doesn't make sense. Every week on the bay you can find a nice EX car for a lot less, maybe even at half the price. It is a nice looking car though. I go after the new issues that Gilbert never made, yet Lionel did back in the day. I'm waiting for my yellow Timken AF box car to arrive. But I might use an original AF frame and trucks to put the body on so it "seems right" for what I once wanted.
I'd love to see a Heinz pickle or aquarium car done the way Gilbert would have done it, and on the Gilbert style trucks.
Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:
Originally Posted by poniaj:
I belonged to the LCCA, but only for a year or so....
Jerry P
AF and Hirail in Wayne, MI
Jerry P
AF and Hirail in Wayne, MI
It's Lionel RailRoader Club, not Lionel Collectors Club of America.
Rusty
Thanks for the picture Rusty. It was indeed the LRRC. The little grey cells aren't firing like they used to. It was nice getting catalogs in the mail, but 95+% of it was for the three rail trains. I removed the few Flyer pages and put them in a loose leaf binder for reference material. But the Inside Track, although interesting in a general sense, was too sparse on Flyer.
Nice looking car in any case, but like others have said, it's been done similarly before, and for the money, I'd rather get something different.
Jerry
