@rplst8 posted:To add to this, most of the results in google for lionelsupport.com are totally useless now since Lionel decided to trash their old site.
Yet another reason companies should be careful around decisions like this. I’m not sure who’s calling the shots over there, but from my view they are phoning it in.
P.S. With some thoughtful consideration and a little design work, they could have totally kept the google results relevant.
@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:Ed,
Although the old website has been gone for a long, long time the files containing the "earlier catalogs (that) are not an exact duplicate of the paper catalogs" were still there, for many years actually, up until quite recently.
That's precisely what the links in my post above (the "missing links" from 5/5/21) used to lead to. I've repeated them here for convenience, but while they worked at that point in 2021 someone has found and removed the files they were linked to, so they no longer work now:
You could at that point still use HTtrack, or other similar methods like Print Edit WE, or Adobe Acrobat, to grab them.
And the ones that were not listed in the quote box above could be found here (this doesn't work anymore either):
https://www.lionelsupport.com/products/catalogs/
Alas, no longer.
Mike
Mike,
I realize just until Lionel changed the lionelsupport.com website in the past month the catalog links as you mentioned were still accessible. Late last year I used the HTtrack utility to save a few of the earlier catalogs. Guess I should have grabbed them all while I still had the chance.
