Really Pleased with Lionel REA flat car & trailers

Lee, enjoy your new purchase.  These are fabulous cars!

I've been collecting these for quite some time to make a nice 1950's-era "intermodal" train to complement today's more modern container trains.  There are also C&O flatcars with white REA trailers that were done a few years back.  But the green ones look sharp! 

Several of the larger train stores still have a varied selection of the earlier Standard O PS-4 flatcars w/piggybacks.  For a few years (2005-2008), some were available as singles along with two-packs.  The more reasonable dealers have kept the prices as they were when each item hit the streets, so you can see how prices have crept up with each production run.  Other dealers have increased prices on all their stock across the board to match the higher prices of the most recent issues.

Are you planning to purchase the CN piggyback set due out in mid-2013? 

David

Coincidentally, we picked up one of these in Cincti yesterday..... we have the early car with the sliver REA trailers and then the two pack from years ago..... would make a nice, short train..... there was a guy at York next to JDs Trains selling ramps for these and I failed to get one - got too excited about JD having an Atlas O F in GM&O I forgot about the ramps.... hopefully still there this Spring.... BTW, Dixie Union Station had the car with the silver trailers if you're looking for it too.... 

Lee....glad you like your purchase.  These are absolutely beautifully done pieces and I have quite a few of them now.  OH...by the way, the unloading ramps on each end is prototypical.  The ramps would be lowered so that an entire train of flats could be unloaded at one end.  The truck would start unloading by backing up a ramp from the ground to the end of the first flatcar and then continue to bring down trailer after trailer using the flatcar ramps as bridges per se between the cars....

Alan

Lee,

I recently got mine too. They are nice. Don't forget, the tractor trailer from the same catalog is coming out soon.

Andy

Yes!  I was hoping it came in with these.  I ordered it to convert to 'Streets, for certain.

I just received mine s well. One thing I noticed it that the supporting fifth wheel and the ramps are glossy compared to the duller finishes of earlier versions. the ribbed trailers make a nice variation.