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banjoflyer posted:
FlyerRich posted:
banjoflyer posted:

Thanks Rich! They did a much better job than they portrayed this car with the original catalog artwork:

That goofy circle L in the middle would have made the car look bad. The finished version looks great!

 

Thank goodness for that!

I wonder if the other aquarium car was produced without the "circle L" logo also? If any one has one please post a picture of it.

Mark

No.  Those Flyer aquarium cars shown had "Circle L's" in them because they were just mock-ups for the catalog photos.  (Just like there are no Circle L's on the Flyer "mint" cars made in recent years.)

 

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FlyerRich posted:

I thought a video might be more appropriate. You don't really see the band that "pulls" the train around in normal lighting. It seems amplified by my flashlight. I believe the band to be a strip of Super 16mm clear film whereas the Aquarium cars of the postwar period used regular 16mm. Enjoy.

That looks nice, Rich!  Thank you for the video/photo.  Interesting that you can see the sprocket holes in the film as it passes by.    (As far as I recall, there was never anything called "super 16," but there was "super 8" film.)   I think the rotating belt in postwar & modern-era Lionel aquarium cars is wider than 16mm, though.

Lionel is announcing that the new production of freight cars will have redesigned trucks in the catalog they are introducing tomorrow.  I have been sent a scan of the trucks by the S Gaugian staff as I have been assigned the task of contacting Lionel about the new trucks.  These look like those trucks. 

See the springs. Perhaps the trucks are sprung like some MTH and American Models trucks. 

banjoflyer posted:

This is good news. AF sprung trucks with a low bolster? 

These look like friction bearing???

Here's a view of the left truck X 400%

I hope the "NEW" trucks on the "NEW" cylindrical hoppers still have the roller bearings with spinning caps.

We'll all see tomorrow!

Mark

The catalog says nothing about roller bearing spinning caps on the new trucks.  Too hard to tell on the image in the catalog.  Either it's an oversight or it's been eliminated.

What's interesting is the say they'll be easier to convert to scale, but don't give a part number for scale wheels.

Rusty

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Well I don't remember the date , probably two years back, that I ordered the American Flyer P E Aquarium car but it arrived yesterday.  I put it on the tracks and powered up to 18v, the lighting was visible but just barely, kind of disappointed. I pulled the shell off and put some aluminum tape on the top of the plastic insert, lighting is improved to satisfactory.

Ray

@Rayin"S" posted:

I ordered the American Flyer P E Aquarium car.  I put it on the tracks & powered up to 18v.  Light was visible but just barely, kind of disappointed.  I pulled the shell off & put aluminum tape on the top of the plastic insert, lighting is improved to satisfactory.

Ray

I was interested in these new S gauge aquarium cars, but shied away given the cost.   I wanted to like them, but I am glad I didn't go for them.

@RadioRon posted:

I was interested in these new S gauge aquarium cars, but shied away given the cost.   I wanted to like them, but I am glad I didn't go for them.

Yes Ron, I know these are on the pricey side, and when I saw others had received them I thought, "OH WELL". But now that I have the car l am glad l did not cancel my order. I really like the car, it's really kind of cool. Actually the PE aquarium car is the only one of the aquarium cars I desired to buy, I am hooked on the PE stuff.

Ray

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@Rayin"S" posted:

I really like the car, it's really kind of cool.  Actually the PE aquarium car is the only one of the aquarium cars I desired to buy, I am hooked on the PE stuff.

Ray

Ray, has Lionel at least upgraded to LED lighting?  MTH has been beating Lionel's pants off with LEDs in aquarium cars for years now, while Lionel continues to use only one wimpy incandescant bulb, placed mid-car. 

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