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First time member and post.  Really enjoyed the forum and recieved a lot of great support and assistance.  Great to be apart of so many who share the love for this great hobby.

Looking to complete my Polar Express heavyweight train that I am building with my Pere Marquette 1225 Legacy 6-11455.  Bought last year the Polar Express tender, but only recently learned how to make the optical sensor correction thanks to ome of your members who posted a procedure to the forum.  Already have the Observation and Diner Cars from a year ago, so excited to complete the train now that I have the tender working.

I am looking to buy, new or used, the PE HW Baggage Car 6-25586, Combination Car 6-28057, and Coach Car 6-81945.

Also bought a Southern Crescent HW four car set 6-15596 just before the holidays.  Thanks to what I think was UPS' fault, I discovered three trucks were damaged when I unpacked the set.  My local Lionel dealer, Charles Ro, said trucks are hard to find.  They sold me some misc parts that allowed me to repair two of the trucks.  Looking to buy any where between one to four trucks, 6205506050, Pass Trk / 6-whl /w/ coll (cplr 3.75") black.

Thanks,

Southern Randy

Thought this would be an appropriate user name since my grandfather was a conductor on the Southern and Central of GA RR from the 1920's to the 1960's; hence my love for all trains!!

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Thanks to everyone who responded so quickly to my first post.  Yes Mr Muffin you and have done business in the past.  In fact at one time you thought you had a coach, but after returning from a trip if I recall correctly it had already been sold,  So yes, I checked with you way back early on.    Thanks for trying again!!  Nice to put a face with the website.

Reason I did not contact Lionel directly is the service person at Charles Ro, who I spoke to on site, explained he has been having a real problem getting these trucks from Lionel for their repairs.  I will take your suggestion and try Lionel myself.

Thanks Again...Southern Randy

It's always puzzling when these production anomalies creep up that leave dealers with an overstock of observation cars, of all things.  How the h*** are they ever gonna sell those without regular coaches? 

The same problem exists in spades when it comes to locating gold PE regular coaches now. If you didn't buy extras of the regular coach when the cars were first announced/delivered, it's nearly impossible to find those gems now.   But observation cars?  No problem.  

David

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Just following up on the earlier post suggesting I contact Lionel regarding the spare trucks.  See below the reponse from Lionel:

"John,

 

Unfortunately, we do not have this truck available. However, we do have the same truck but in grey. The part number would be 6309070050.

 

Thank you,

 

Katie

Customer Service Representative

6000 Victory Lane | Concord, NC 28027

800-454-6635 ext 2 (o) | LionelSupport.com (web)

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