NYC Water Level set from Lionel q's

The Lionel website says April 2013. 

Thanks for your reply!  Gives me some more time for budget approval

What exactly does that mean? "NYC Water Level Set" ?? I saw it in the catalog too but no clue to the lingo.

The New York Central RR was known as "The Water Level Route" for its route following mostly rivers and waterways between New York and Chicago, and with a few exeptions was largely a flat railroad when compared to competitors that crossed mountain grades further inland away from the Great Lakes and Hudson River, etc. 

Ahhhh OK makes sense now. Thank you

I'll be curious what cars ship with this set. The caboose pictured is one of their plastic NYC versions but the description says all of the cars are die cast. I wonder if they will be repainted versions of the 1991 remakes of the pre war "semi scale" cars??

Pete

I thought they were only referring to the hopper car as having a die cast body.  John

Although their description does not say anything about marker lights on the rear of the tender the picture clearly shows them.  I wonder if they will be there.  Probably wouldn't get a straight answer from Lionel.   John

You may be right. If so, it would be hard to justify the $300 additional for the 4 car set.

Pete

Shipping schedual still says April 2013.  Did anybody get theirs yet?  Anxiously waiting for mine!

~Jeffrey

I ordered this set from my local hobby shop just after the catalog arrived in the mail. It is nom June???? Has anyone else got there's yet?

The loco will likely be identical to the seperate sale  legcay mohawk aside from the cab number. Heres video forum member drgwdavid posted awhile back.

Still waiting for mine...

I was told by a dealer it would ship in July.  In spite of what the shipping schedule says.

On the Charles Ro website, it says that expected delivery date for pre-orders is 9/10/2013, but Lionel updated their shipping schedule and they say that the shipping date is January 2014.

~Jeffrey

The online shipping schedule has so much "mis-information" in it right now, Lionel should just pull the gosh darn thing from their website.  It's a total embarrassment for a customer-facing document, as it has absolutely zero credibility whatsoever.  Unbelievably absurd!    And dealers would be wise to save themselves the administrative headaches and just not post any dates regarding product shipping ETA's.

FWIW... CharlieNassau just posted a short list of items due into stores this week.  And when I asked about any scale rolling stock included in the shipment, he indicated no.  So who knows when we'll see this set.  

These snippets of information we're getting from dealers who receive a shipping invoice direct from Lionel are probably the most reliable sources of information we have right now as to what's arriving in stores.  Lionel has made it painfully clear that it's just not currently a high priority to communicate accurate shipping information directly to the consumer at this point in time.    

David

Got a call from my LHS today.  Picking mine up tomorrow!

~Jeffrey