NMRRC Lake Superior & Ishpeming box cars by Lionel - Still a few left

Hi John:

Yes I remember, I have several of the club cars,

I check the web page, when will you be posting the information.

Gary

Nice to see the club back producing a club car!  These will be a must have.

I'll get excited when I see one for Lake Michigan. 

I would like to get one or two of those boxcars. If they are not sold out. 

Andrew

I'm still on my ship.  I'm waiting for the club to get that up on line.  Andrew,  the club hasn't started taking orders yet - as soon as they do I will post it here.  I'm getting a 4 pack for myself! 

 

With only 200 boxcars total being produced, by the time I get around to ordering, they might be sold out.

I hope to make an order too.

 

Just talked to the officers of the club, they are waiting to hear from Lionel on the final shipping costs.  When we know that we can set our prices and set up for orders.  hopefully soon!

I have a few of these and would like another. Interesting territory these ran in....

Hi John:

Are these two reefer cars from the Northern Michigan Railroad Club?

Are the new cars going to be the same scale and size? if they are Lionel Scale Cars, I believe they will be larger than these.

Can you tell us what ship you are on?  it would be fun to track the ships location, like we track commercial jets.

Is their a tracking link to your ship?

Take care: Gary

Sure are!  The Bosch beer car is from my personal research.  Those are models of early 20th century cars, so they would be smaller than the LS&I cars in real life.  

I am captain of the Lake Guardian,  you can follow it on several websites, though it relies on our transponder, which occasionally is out of range,  We are currently docked in Milwaukee, WI. You can try Boatnerd.com, which has an AIS link.  

Hi John:

Just came from the WWW.NMRRC.ORG, the cars are up but the prices and order information is coming shortly.  I also found your ship. Thanks for the tips.

I hope I found the correct ship.......

Gary: Watching the big ships on the Detroit River.

trainroomgary posted:

Hi John:

Just came from the WWW.NMRRC.ORG, the cars are up but the prices and order information is coming shortly.  I also found your ship. Thanks for the tips.

I hope I found the correct ship.......

Gary: Watching the big ships on the Detroit River.

Right vessel in the pic, but wrong location.  We are docked farther South in the Port of Milwaukee.  

Lionel also has the PS-1 40' Boxcars that are super-detailed and made in China. That version of the PS-1 40' boxcar has not been run in either Lake Superior & Ishpeming or Escanaba and Lake Superior. Should the China built model be produced in the LS&I and E&LS schemes? 

Andrew

Really wasn't feasible to use the China cars, and it would have raised the price considerably.  Plus we prefer Made in America.

If the detailed PS-1 made in China in the LS&I and E&LS schemes and other numbers were sold through the LIONEL Catalogs would anybody mind? 

Andrew

The LionScale Modern Exterior-Braced 50' Boxcar now have the standard Youngstown doors available.

Will the ESCANABA & LAKE SUPERIOR boxcars be made with the right door in the USA? 

Andrew

 

Those sure look to be nice cars! Looking forward to seeing the final product.

Order forms are now available on the NMRRC website and also attached here.

Pretty excited about these.  Lionel's new decorating process makes it possible to do more elaborate paint schemes.  Looking at doing a really cool beer car in 2019.

Back in 1976 I got this photo in Negaunee. Looks like "No Herald" also permissible. But, I'll get my order in tonight.

 

BANDOB posted:

Back in 1976 I got this photo in Negaunee. Looks like "No Herald" also permissible. But, I'll get my order in tonight.

 

I have some pics of the "no herald" version, but I think the versions with the heralds were visually more interesting,

That's a neat photo though - all railroads with lines in the Upper Peninsula in 1976.  BTW, I lived in Negaunee then.

Thanks for posting the order forms, Charlie. I've occasionally seen one of the older cars in a virtual sea of Soo, WC and CN paper cars in the North Ave. yard that the UP uses to service the Chicago Tribune printing plant. 

I am ordering mine!  I'm not missing out on this run! I am on a continual search for the E&LS boxcar and that baby is tough to find!

Basil posted:

I am ordering mine!  I'm not missing out on this run! I am on a continual search for the E&LS boxcar and that baby is tough to find!

Thanks for the order!  Only 100 made of the E&LS car so yeah, they don't come up often.  I'm thinking this year's car will go fast and there are only 50 0f each variation.

I mailed the form and a check for a couple.  Is there any way to verify that it's been received?

Mallard4468 posted:

I mailed the form and a check for a couple.  Is there any way to verify that it's been received?

That's a good question.  I did the same, but didn't use tracking.

Thank you for completely ignoring the fact that Lionel has the correct door the for Modern 50' Boxcar and can finally make new road numbers of the ESCANABA & LAKE SUPERIOR modern 50' boxcars with the correct design of door. They can produce them in the USA now.

Andrew

Hi

I mailed my Non-member application today, Even paid the Michigan sales tax.  Sent it to Don at NMRCC Car Agent.  Ask him to hit me up with an e-mail, when he receives my letter.

Side bar Question, for any OGR member: Will Lionel do one boxcar, with my YT logo on it, if so please provide link.  Seems like with a digital printer this could be done. I had a company do a coffee cup with my logo.

Gary

  Gary, I spotted digitally customized on white boxcars on the Lionel site a while back; but the site STILL doesn't work well enough that I could look deep at exactly what requirements it entailed (©®™?) or note if they are still available. I think Mac was only on engines too (at least "my" era).

falconservice posted:

Thank you for completely ignoring the fact that Lionel has the correct door the for Modern 50' Boxcar and can finally make new road numbers of the ESCANABA & LAKE SUPERIOR modern 50' boxcars with the correct design of door. They can produce them in the USA now.

Andrew

We are not doing the E&LS boxcars again.  You are quite welcome to put up your own money and have Lionel make them.

Lionel can make them anytime for anybody. Why is he searching on the internet for leftovers? He just has to ask the people in North Carolina. 

Andrew

Don has been receiving orders. I spoke with him last weekend. No worries, I'm sure he has everyones orders.

Andrew, Lionel does have minimums for special runs.  They aren't going to just make something because an individual calls them. It doesn't work like that.

Mallard4468 posted:

I mailed the form and a check for a couple.  Is there any way to verify that it's been received?

You don't have any contact info in your profile.  We need to know more to tell you your order status.

 

trainroomgary posted:

Hi

I mailed my Non-member application today, Even paid the Michigan sales tax.  Sent it to Don at NMRCC Car Agent.  Ask him to hit me up with an e-mail, when he receives my letter.

Side bar Question, for any OGR member: Will Lionel do one boxcar, with my YT logo on it, if so please provide link.  Seems like with a digital printer this could be done. I had a company do a coffee cup with my logo.

Gary

He has it!  :-)

Adriatic posted:

  Gary, I spotted digitally customized on white boxcars on the Lionel site a while back; but the site STILL doesn't work well enough that I could look deep at exactly what requirements it entailed (©®™?) or note if they are still available. I think Mac was only on engines too (at least "my" era).

those are only available with the 6464 sized car bodies.

John23 posted:

Mallard4468 posted:

I mailed the form and a check for a couple.  Is there any way to verify that it's been received?

You don't have any contact info in your profile.  We need to know more to tell you your order status.

 

John,

Thanks for pointing that out.  Email used to be there - don't know what happened.  Also, sent an email to the address in your profile.  Thanks.

Are boxcars still available?  I would like to order one.