@DILLI posted:@Dave NYC Hundson PRR K4
Hi Dave I guess I am a little late responding to your thread, but I just stumbled across it this morning. I wanted to ask you about these Strasburg cars since you seem very knowledgeable about them. I am extremely interested in the 2227050, 2227060, and 2227180 (the 2000's style car sets). I pre-ordered them last week.
I see that they appear in the 2021 Lionel Volume II Catalog, of which I do have a copy. While these are a 2021 Volume II Catalog option, I have not seen any of them yet in the stores. Have you? On all of the major train venders' websites, we can only pre-order them. Even though these are technically 2021 items, have they not come out yet? I have paged through the entire 2022 Catalog, and they do not appear in it. On the pre-order webpages, it says they are expected this summer - in June or July.
Can I assume that Lionel is just delayed in producing them? I am trying to understand what is going on. I felt better once I was able to preorder them. I know a lot of people will pre-order them and there will be more than enough orders to warrant their production, but when the 2022 Catalog came out and I didn't see them I got concerned.
Thanks, Robert
Yeah, they have not come in yet. My buddy Jimmy(who is not a train guy but knows I'm a train but) was asking me about this yesterday(that is how ordering works). I told him that usually the way it works is the catalog comes out, and the orders are collected about a month and a half later. It takes about 7-10 months for production depending on what all else is going on. I'd expect that it is possible that we should see some things from that catalog around July/August. Not sure where these cars will fall into, but typically some stuff comes in at the mid part of June.
