Trainmaster04 posted:Will Ebbert posted:Trainmaster04 posted:I would like to mention that Charles Ro, mr. muffins, and train world put the wrong photo for the #4 pack. It shows the wrong vista dome and the second car isn’t even the observation car. Any thoughts?
A couple dealers have the wrong photos.
Additionally, the catalog shows Lone Star and Kenefick with 4 wheel trucks, but I confirmed with Dave that they'll come with the correct 6 wheel trucks!
That sounds Great! Now we have to hope that they look as good as the photos.
It’s odd but Nassau have the wrong photo for the #4 set as well but I am sure they’ll ship the right one.
The six wheel trucks of the Business Cars completely escaped my attention but I am glad to have confirmation that the two Lionel are making will have them. I did not look beyond the catalog description and illustrations although these cars are described as having new tooling.
However I am expecting that Lionel will make these with fairly “generic” details as I expect they intend to issue such cars in other road names. Looking around for exterior and interior details of the real thing (and the interiors matter to me as these cars have a very different configuration than any of the Lionel 21” car interiors issued to date), I found several illustrations of Lone Star:
The above shows it with what looks like caboose-like marker lights in addition to all the other rear lighting. It doesn’t appear always to have been configured that way:
Often when I am researching passenger car details I check out what has been produced in HO scale brass models, which are anything but “generic” and the manufacturer’s research is good enough for me/my purposes. I know that Overland modeled the Business Cars including Lone Star a few years back:
To be honest I have no idea what some of that roof detail i.e. at the rear of the car is about but I definitely don’t expect Lionel to replicate it. I think I could probably scratchbuild some of those parts.
