Polar Railroad Hot Cocoa Car <photos>

Wow, thats really nice. Did you order any of the other cars or the Legacy engine? Thanks for sharing the photos.

I have the GP7 and all the freight so far.  The GP7 is such a nice runner and it sounds great.  I order the Reindeer Stock Cars, but they have not shipped yet.

Wow..Lionel did a fantastic job on this....

Darn it, I knew I shouldn't have looked...

Keith:

I know how much you like anything related to the PE and Christmas so this new car should be an excellent fit for you. It is a very nice car.

Nice Keith.  I like that car a lot.  Keith do you have the Polar Railroad K-4 engine?  I wanted to start buying the PR stuff but my largest turn is 048 (Fastrack) and these are noted as 054.  Wondering if you have/run this on your Carpet Central?

WOW, Keith... That Polar Railroad Hot Cocoa car looks gorgeous! 

Your photos show the color as being so much better than the promo photos do. 

Definitely gotta get this stunning car. 

Thanks for sharing. 

Greg,

I do not have the K4.  I passed on that offering, but I am hoping to eventually get it on the secondary market or possibly a dealer blow-out sale.

Nice looking car Kieth. I saw one at Charles Ro. Looks much better out of the box!

Great car with some very sharp details. Its all about the details

Thomas

WOW Keith those are really nice cars

awesome detail. I think I'm going to get one.

THANKS FOR POSTING,ALEX

Keith...thanks for getting the picture up so that we could see this great car.  While I don't have any of the Polar Express items, I do have several of the milk cars and this one is now on my list!

Alan

I have never had a milk car. What are the two internal tanks for??

The tanks were used to store the milk. In real life these cars were actually two glass-lined tanks (like thermos bottles) installed in a box car. The milk was pumped out when the car arrived at the dairy. Other milk cars were more like normal reefers and were used to transport those old-style milk cans like the Lionel operating milk car fires out onto the metal platform.   

The problem I have with this "Polar Railroad" line is the use of the "Pennsylvania RR" "Keystone" logo. The I look at one and the first thing I think of is "Pennsy" NOT "Polar"! You would think that Lionel had someone smart enough in-house that could have come up with an original design logo for the "Polar RR"!

I happen to like the way they used the modified Pennsy Keystone for the Polar Railroad.  Made it real easy for me to pull the trigger on these items.

Andy

We ran my Polar Railroad K-4 here on the store layout all throughout the holidays without any problems and it is all 036 FasTrack. Awesome loco.

I like that they used the PRR keystone. Looking to double head it with a Pennsy K4 during the holidays on the club layout later this year.