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VJandPVJandPOGR Forum Member

In speaking with the owner of a local train shop last week, he commented that he was finding it challenging to keep his store stocked with Lionel products.  There’s a shipping container out west that isn’t getting unloaded. :-/  He mentioned Lionel was airfreighting stuff in for the Christmas season to try to help ease it.

I’ve been looking for a ZW-L transformer and I tracked one down in a store about 2 1/2 hours from me.  The Legacy Command Set #990 seems to be hard to find, too, but I found one on a hobby store website “Active Power Sports” of all places.

Fortunately eBay has had a lot of stuff but anything new seems to be hit or miss.  

Anyone else experiencing difficulty with ordering anything?

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R RailRideOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

In the November 2021 issue of TRAINS magazine, I was reading an article on the supply-chain logjam, and included was an aerial shot (page 19) of a BNSF intermodal yard in Ellwood, Illinois, outside of Chicago. Two tracks had been taken out of service in order to store international containers on them. Picture 40' containers stacked three high, sitting at a 90-degree angle across these two tracks. Now picture this triple stack stretching the entire length of a typical doublestack train. As in, you can't even make out the end of this lineup even in a drone photo.

That's a lot of containers. All full of product wating to be picked up and delivered. And it's going on all across the country. Not hard to imagine a whole lot of pre-orders are stuck in this limbo.

---PCJ

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