Lionel at Macy's

Curious... Is that a new Lionel Macy's boxcar (red w/Santaland graphic and green roof) this year?  Or was that from a prior year.  I recall Lionel producing a special annual Macy's boxcar for 2006, 2007, and 2008 around Christmastime, but the boxcar in your top 2 photos doesn't look familiar to me.  Looks nice!

These boxcars were quite the hot item back then -- especially when they first came out.  Folks were calling up Macy's stores all over the country to grab one (or two).  The first two had terrific graphics, but the third (2008?) was rather bland as I recall.  And at that point, the phase wore off.

It's from 2004.  MTH 30-74195.

Stu

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Thanks, Stu.  Now that you mnetion it... I remember MTH did the Macy's thing for a couple of years.  Then Calabrese made a connection when he had his office in NYC.

David

MTH also made a couple Macy's boxcars in their RailKing line during that time period.

I agree, good exposure. 

I have to check it out. Macy's can be a zoo at Christmas time.

I should have mentioned that the display cases you see with the Macy's Boxcar are part of a historical display on the stores history. These display cases are on the 9th floor, next to the Christmas decorations.  

There are a few other Macy's around the country that have the special Toy Arcade set up, Union Square, State Street Chicago, and Center City Philly among them, but I don't know if they have the trains operating like Herald Square has.

Ken