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Caldwell posted:

Come on Jerry P, we got 10 pages out of 88 in the last catalog .  Never mind your right that is close to a couple minutes out of 27.

Cal,

On the Lionel side we see full length streamlined passenger and heavyweight cars, B60 baggage cars, 66’ mill gondolas, husky stacks, 50’ flats with 40’ trailers, F units, AC6000s, X31 boxcars, modern tank cars, woodchip hoppers, Pacific and Hudson locomotives.

All very nice for them.   We get a redesigned frame for the Geeps.  Yeah, the Berks are nice, and I have two of them.  I even have a Geep on order.   There’s not a lot new.  Even the Bluetooth technology transfers across their entire line.  I realize that Flyer is the step child of Lionel, but come on!  .  They design a nice waffle sided boxcar, but fail to make it the proper length and put it on the correct length frame.  The one used is nothing more than a sheet metal stamping that is also used on all the boxcars, stock cars and reefers.  I have to believe that a whole new mold for a waffle car costs more than a die for cutting a few more fractions of an inch of sheet metal.  Why not proper length?  50’ cars would be great, even though they’re hardly seen any more.  The reefers are nice, but they too are the same sheet metal frame and are the same height as the traditional Flyer boxcars, which are based on a PRR X-29 car which is smaller than other roads’ cars.

Some might feel that Lionel is trying, but I have almost given up on them.  The basic reason is that I just don’t need any more trains.  I’ve satisfied with what I have, and am enjoying it on my present layout, even if it’s isn’t all that finished.   I have a couple of scratch building projects in the pipeline, and may even get them finished soon! 

 

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