Well, my PE set and baggage and abandoned toys cars finally arrived from Charles Ro this morning. Unboxed them to find that both baggage AND observation car have the same frame with steps. Abandoned toys car has correct frame with no steps. Will be calling Lionel service about this issue. Should be interesting what they'll have to say when I demand the correct frame for the observation car. Thus the saga continues. Won't have opportunity to test run set until this weekend.
Btw, it seems Roundhouse Bill is the only one who has two different frames and can swap them to make them correct. Wonder if that's because he received his set for the S Gaugian magazine review and Lionel didn't want him mentioning their screw up in his review. Also, someone on this forum must have taken video of this set running at York or pics of set on display there. Wonder if they show the observation car displayed there had the correct frame or the incorrect frame with steps.
