LCCA CARS DELIVERED - QUICK QUESTION

Yes Paul, they do have individual items numbers.

  Lionel was to put the car numbers on the box but it didn't happen for some reason. The club officials are working on a solution at this point in time. There will be an announcement coming out about this in the near future. Bob

Thanks for the information Bob - much appreciated. The cars are very nice.

Stu - care to share

Paul

Paul,

I don't have the cars, but looking at Bob's photos above, it looks like the SKU is printed on the car.

On the NP, look to the right of the flag, looks like 17###.

On the GN, look to the left of the flag, I can't make out what it says, but that text looks like it contains the product number.

Stu

NOT LionelLLC posted:

Paul,

I don't have the cars, but looking at Bob's photos above, it looks like the SKU is printed on the car.

On the NP, look to the right of the flag, looks like 17###.

On the GN, look to the left of the flag, I can make out what it says, but that text looks like it contains the product number.

Stu

the numbers are 17501 and 17502. I don't really know if this is the SKU number or not

cabinet Bob posted:

the numbers are 17501 and 17502. I don't really know if this is the SKU number or not

Bob, Yes, I think that's the product number.

Paul, here's where the number before the DASH makes all the difference.  For example:

6-17501 is a Santa Fe Standard O Flat Car

6-17502 is a Santa Fe Standard O Flat Car with Trailer

3-17501 is the LCCA 2017 Northern Pacific LionScale Box Car

3-17502 is the LCCA 2017 Great Northern LionScale Mechanical Reefer

I love this uncataloged stuff.

Stu

I don't know why the numbering was changed on CLUB  Cars from the 5 SERIES BY Lionel.

Their quality control is really slipping again.

GG1GUYY

Stu - thanks very much. Interesting indeed. I know there is a method to the numbering but did not realize there are now "3-" in addition to "6-"

I suppose they ran out of 52xxx numbers to use for uncataloged items.

Do all uncataloged cars have the same prefix? (LOTS, LCCA, NETCA, METCA...)?

Lots of numbers, I was told there would be no math.

Paul

Paul,

There are several different prefixes that Lionel uses.  While there are general trends in the prefixes, there is a lot of crossover.

3- is LionScale, or maybe it's items made at Lionel facility in NC

6- is the majority of regular production

7- is mass market items, what you'd find in stores likes Kohl's, Amazon, Target, etc.

I seem to recall 9- but can't place my finger on it at the moment.

Stu