If based solely OGR posts one would assume complaining about Lionel is our national pastime. So I am going to swim against the current and say thanks to Lionel for shipping the scale Polar Express in plenty of time for the holiday. I have no idea how difficult it is to design and improve a legacy engine, have it manufactured in another continent, shipped half way across the world and then arrive during the month it was advertised. Come on, how hard can that be?
Normal service resumed, everyone can now go back to blasting Lionel for inflicting upon them such an intolerable and unbearable amount of displeasure and grief.