Is there a work around to see these older catalogs??
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Download them. They should be a pdf.
Adobe Flash Player reached end of life on December 31, 2020 and all AFP content was blocked from running after January 12, 2021.
According to Adobe, AFP should be deinstalled from your computers.
Rusty
Because I don't trust Lionel to keep things on their website (notice very little pre-2010 stuff?) - I download them and save as a PDF. So much easier to flip through - although I wish they would have fixed their PDFs that display 2-page wide (4 pages across the screen).
If anyone saved the direct download links for the 2011-2013 catalogs, they may work, for example I found in my old notes the link for 2011 Signature:
catalogs.lionel.com/11signature/offline/download.pdf
copy and paste the link into a browser and it should download
I am getting ready toss a crap ton of catalogs. I really wish Lionel would put as many of them they have as pdfs on the site.
I knew this was going to happen. I think MTH older catalogs are also in the same boat.
@MartyE posted:I am getting ready toss a crap ton of catalogs. I really wish Lionel would put as many of them they have as pdfs on the site.
They used to have them on their website, but some years ago they cleaned most of the pre-2010 stuff off their website (don't understand why, but then against it's Lionel) - unlike MTH which still has catalogs all the way back to 1993.
@superwarp1 posted:I knew this was going to happen. I think MTH older catalogs are also in the same boat.
With the future closure of MTH, not sure the status of their online catalogs, but they still have mot of them all the way back to 1993.
@ed h posted:If anyone saved the direct download links for the 2011-2013 catalogs, they may work, for example I found in my old notes the link for 2011 Signature:
catalogs.lionel.com/11signature/offline/download.pdf
copy and paste the link into a browser and it should download
Catalogs starting with 2011 are still on their website.
However, in 2013 I downloaded some of their 2009 catalogs. In 2010 I downloaded their 2010 catalogs.
I suspect they have some type of "rolling" deletion date so catalogs older than - maybe 10 years - are automatically removed. That's a shame. They should keep ALL of them online.
@paulp575 posted:Catalogs starting with 2011 are still on their website.
However, in 2013 I downloaded some of their 2009 catalogs. In 2010 I downloaded their 2010 catalogs.
I suspect they have some type of "rolling" deletion date so catalogs older than - maybe 10 years - are automatically removed. That's a shame. They should keep ALL of them online.
Looks like can still get back to 2009 catalogs, digging thru some more of my notes I found a 2009 link:
catalogs.lionel.com/2009signature/offline/download.pdf
Seems like Lionel should update their website with the direct download links for these older catalogs. Then again since they re-did the website a few years ago its obvious they choose splashy graphics over functionality and content.
@ed h posted:Looks like can still get back to 2009 catalogs, digging thru some more of my notes I found a 2009 link:
catalogs.lionel.com/2009signature/offline/download.pdf
Seems like Lionel should update their website with the direct download links for these older catalogs. Then again since they re-did the website a few years ago its obvious they choose splashy graphics over functionality and content.
Looking at all the Lionel catalogs I have downloaded - these are the earliest I have downloaded:
K-Line by Lionel 2009 Volume 1 Catalog
Lionel 2009 Ready-to-Run Catalog
Lionel 2009 Signature Edition Catalog
Lionel 2009 Volume II Catalog – includes Christmas Catalog
Lionel 2009 Christmas Catalog – included with Lionel 2009 Volume II Catalog
Wonder if there is a way to download the earlier (pre-2009) with a direct link since it looks like they used a different naming system pre-2009:
K-Line by Lionel 2008 Volume 1 Catalog
Lionel 2008 Volume 1 Signature Edition Catalog
Lionel 2008 Christmas Catalog
K-Line by Lionel 2008 Volume 2 Catalog
Lionel 2008 Train Catalog Volume 2
paulp575 - I don't believe its possible to download the pre 2009 catalogs, or at least in pdf format. They were not online as pdfs, they mostly consist of html pages and the pages don't look 100 percent the same as the catalogs. The links still exist, but unfortunately not in any easy downloadable file.
@ed h posted:paulp575 - I don't believe its possible to download the pre 2009 catalogs, or at least in pdf format. They were not online as pdfs, they mostly consist of html pages and the pages don't look 100 percent the same as the catalogs. The links still exist, but unfortunately not in any easy downloadable file.
You are correct. I remember trying to download the catalog pages for items I have purchased. It was a nightmare.
I do have physical copies most of the Lionel catalogs issued since 1974 (definitely the more recent ones - since I started my current collection in 2009), but once in a while I come across a catalog/flier that I did not know existed.
@Rusty Traque posted:Adobe Flash Player reached end of life on December 31, 2020 and all AFP content was blocked from running after January 12, 2021.
According to Adobe, AFP should be deinstalled from your computers.
Rusty
That's right ! I got the same message and Adobe was removed from my P C.
@SD60M posted:Do you guys go back and leaf through old catalogs? What do you do with them?
Funny you should ask this question, normally no, but I did this morning. I was looking for the oldest version of a car (PS-4 with flats) to compare to the newest versions. I guess it was good to have the old catalogs hanging around.
Charlie
can someone give me a link for the 2009 2011 and 2012 ready to run catalog?
thank you
You can access all the catalogs since 2011 here: https://www.lionel.com/catalogs
@paulp575 posted:You can access all the catalogs since 2011 here: https://www.lionel.com/catalogs
not 2011 - 2013 it says to download adobe flash player which doesn't exist anymore
@paulp575 posted:They used to have them on their website, but some years ago they cleaned most of the pre-2010 stuff off their website (don't understand why......
Yeah, it was really a bummer when that happened. As I recall, you could access their catalogs back to 2000. Don't know why Lionel did that, either, but I really wish they hadn't. I used those old catalogs all the time. It was a great resource to track older engines and cars.
@paigetrain posted:not 2011 - 2013 it says to download adobe flash player which doesn't exist anymore
That's not being nice.
They need to learn to treat their customers better!
@paulp575 posted:That's not being nice.
They need to learn to treat their customers better!
@paigetrain posted:not 2011 - 2013 it says to download adobe flash player which doesn't exist anymore
Yes the 2011-2013 ones are in Flash. But newer ones are in html, the new standard.
Flash was a huge security hole and adobe and Microsoft finally pulled the plug in 2020.
So unless something made in Flash is remade in html, it won't work again. If there were PDF's available, use them. Otherwise there is always the old paper copies! Old school, haha
Start with this, for the oldest ones 2000 to 2008 (these are web only versions; there were apparently no PDF's at this time):
https://ogrforum.com/...0#155293810638721640
Actually the above link will take you to a thread that helps with Weaver catalogs as well.
As was implied above the newest ones are in PDF form. There are specific URL's for these. If no one else posts them I may do so later this morning.
Mike
@Sean's Train Depot posted:Yes the 2011-2013 ones are in Flash. But newer ones are in html, the new standard.
Flash was a huge security hole and adobe and Microsoft finally pulled the plug in 2020.
So unless something made in Flash is remade in html, it won't work again. If there were PDF's available, use them. Otherwise there is always the old paper copies! Old school, haha
@Sean's Train Depot - Supposedly all current browsers have some variation of Flash included within the browser.
I found this website that has a link to download their version of Flash. I haven't downloaded it so don't know if it will work or not. I think it is a separate program rather than a browser add-on or plug-in:
Here are the direct links (no Adobe Flash) to the major, twice-a-year Lionel catalogs, in PDF form, from 2009 - present:
2009
Signature
http://catalogs.lionel.com/200...offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/200...offline/download.pdf
2010
Signature
http://catalogs.lionel.com/201...offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/201...offline/download.pdf
2011
Signature
http://catalogs.lionel.com/11s...offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/11v...offline/download.pdf
2012
Signature
http://catalogs.lionel.com/12s...offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/12v...offline/download.pdf
2013
Signature
http://catalogs.lionel.com/13s...offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/13f...offline/download.pdf
2014
Signature
http://catalogs.lionel.com/14s...offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/14v...offline/download.pdf
2015
Signature
http://catalogs.lionel.com/15s...offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/15c2/offline/download.pdf
2016
Signature
http://catalogs.lionel.com/16c1/offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/16c2/offline/download.pdf
2017
Signature
http://catalogs.lionel.com/17c1/offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/17c2/offline/download.pdf
2018
Big Book
http://catalogs.lionel.com/18bb/offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/18c2/offline/download.pdf
2019
Big Book
http://catalogs.lionel.com/19bb/offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/19c2/offline/download.pdf
2020
Big Book
http://catalogs.lionel.com/202...offline/download.pdf
Volume 2
http://catalogs.lionel.com/202...offline/download.pdf
2021
Big Book
http://catalogs.lionel.com/202...offline/download.pdf
M.H.M.
I'm slowly downloading all the catalogs on that page and saving each page to PDF; then combining the individual PDF files into one PDF for each catalog.
They look good Paul. As happens occasionally, but surprisingly often for some reason, two current threads on the OGR Forum are crossing in this one task. You've obviously discovered that the catalogs currently hosted by Lionel from 2000 to 2008 are not in PDF form, and were apparently never published that way. Instead they are "web versions", which in each case take the contents of the corresponding paper catalog and represent it as collection of web pages as opposed to paper ones.
These can still be captured in PDF form, and there are several ways to do this. When you look at Lionel's web versions you see that they don't represent the paper original too well in format, although the product details and pictures are accurate. In spite of this your approach represents things fairly well. Perhaps you can tell us a little about how you did it?
Several alternative methods for capturing web content have been presented, and are being debated in this current thread:
Did you use one of them?
Mike
@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:They look good Paul. As happens occasionally, but surprisingly often for some reason, two current threads on the OGR Forum are crossing in this one task. You've obviously discovered that the catalogs currently hosted by Lionel from 2000 to 2008 are not in PDF form, and were apparently never published that way. Instead they are "web versions", which in each case take the contents of the corresponding paper catalog and represent it as collection of web pages as opposed to paper ones.
These can still be captured in PDF form, and there are several ways to do this. When you look at Lionel's web versions you see that they don't represent the paper original too well in format, although the product details and pictures are accurate. In spite of this your approach represents things fairly well. Perhaps you can tell us a little about how you did it?
Several alternative methods for capturing web content have been presented, and are being debated in this current thread:
Did you use one of them?
Mike
@Mellow Hudson Mike - I think I remember (before Lionel removed everything pre-2010) they were HTML (web) pages.
Here's how I did the PDF:
When you open the catalog, it's in a frame (at least that's what Firefox v88.0.1 displays). So I right click on the frame and click on "This frame" which opens a menu and from that menu I select "Print this frame". I use "PDF reDirect Pro v2" to print the frame as a PDF. PDF reDirect Pro v2 is a printer driver that allows you to print anything as a PDF.
I number each resultant PDF in numerical (1, 2, 3, 4, etc). Once I have all the pages saved as PDFs, I open PDF reDirect Pro v2 and merge all the pages together.
I recognize you can't click on the links in the table of contents, but that doesn't bother me. I just want copies of the catalogs (even though I have them in print. I have a printed catalog for just about all the Lionel and MTH items I have in my collection.
Cool. That's about the easiest way to do it. Thanks for the feedback.
Mike
Something changed with the 2003 Classic Trains Volume 2. They are no longer in a frame. Now I have to print each page to a PDF.
Dilemma!!!
In another thread here on OGR (https://ogrforum.com/...5#155434571143991155), it was mentioned of a program that will allow you to download the entire website and save it to your computer as a website - WITH clickable links!
The program is HTTrack Website Copier (you can find it here: http://www.httrack.com/). Decided to give it a try and see how it compares to printing each catalog page as a PDF and then merging all the pages into one PDF.
It is amazing! Downloads all the linked pages - including images as well as any other pages linked to the URL you enter to begin the process.
Going to have to think about whether I can to continue the PDF route or use the website with clickable links.
Will post up when I make a decision.
I wanted to look at the current catalog so I wen to:
https://www.lionel.com/catalogs
Unfortunately that page is 100 percent completely inaccessible to any form of adaptive technology. It doesn't read at all. I have no clue why Lionel still thumbs its nose at sound web site design and perhaps even the law.
I've had problems accessing Lionel website today as well.
According to: Lionel.com - Is Lionel Down Right Now? (isitdownrightnow.com)
Lionel.com is down.
Jim
About using HTTrack Website Copier, just remember that in the future, Windows updates might make that program unusable since it is no longer being developed. BUT, once you have a PDF file, Adobe will fix anything that needs changing to adapt to Windows updates. The risk, and the choice, is yours, but I know which way I would do it.
Chuck
@PRR1950 posted:About using HTTrack Website Copier, just remember that in the future, Windows updates might make that program unusable since it is no longer being developed. BUT, once you have a PDF file, Adobe will fix anything that needs changing to adapt to Windows updates. The risk, and the choice, is yours, but I know which way I would do it.
Chuck
@PRR1950 - There are pros and cons on using either (HTML or PDFs).
According to their website, it currently works on Windows 2000 thru Windows 10 in spite of last being updated in 2017 (before Windows 10).
Not worried. Just want to get the catalogs downloaded in a convenient format.
If it no longer works for some other project at a later day, there's a couple other alternatives that MAY work.
I also was having issues accessing Lionel.com....
To view catalogs, you can use their "online store" website.
Here's the link to the catalog page which mirrors what you see on the actual Lionel website
Lionel.com seems to be back online now.
Jim
UPDATE: Apparently there is a problem with the way this forum handles PDFs. Some of the PDFs I can upload; others I can't.
I've verified all the PDFs I created thus far are correct.
Not sure how to proceed. Thinking I may upload to drop box and then offer the download link to anyone that wants them.
Currently I have created PDFs from 2000 Vol 2 thru 2005 Vol 2.
Update: Have downloaded and created PDF for catalogs 2000 thru 2007. Only 2008 to go.
I already have 2009 onward catalogs in PDF form so probably not going to do those - unless someone wants them.
