Lionel's New Strasburg Wood Coaches The 1990's and 2000's

Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4,

Thanks for sorting the Strasburg cars out.  I had the same questions.

I have all the 2000s ones except #70 & #96.  Not going to purchase duplicate cars just to get those 2 at the prices being charged.

I'll stick the the 7 I have - Lime Valley Baggage, 60, 72, 59, 58, 62, 88.

Jim

I asked Ryan about the observation cars this morning, and they are the same car with different paint schemes as well. I like both though. Paradise reminds me of the old Ringling Brothers car with it's vibrant colors.

Personally, I hope we see a Hello Dolly open air passenger car in the future for the set. I’d rather have that than the redo heavyweight observation car.

I'd go for the Hello Dolly open air car.

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), Nicolas Smith did a custom run of #96 the "William McFarlan" and #72 Mill Creek was offered as an add-on car by MTH. That limited my options for the passenger cars down to just one of the two packs.

Lionel hinted during their show that open-air cars could be coming sometime in the future. I too would spring for a Hello Dolly as soon as it is offered.

Definintely would be interested in the open airs in the modern paint scheme (2000's). Not sure if I would like those as a 1 or 2 pack.

Currently, I have the MTH 3-pack plus the NS Exclusive Marion car.

Considering getting the 2-pack that has the combine in this catalog, but not as the prices that it is being offered at. I'm actually pretty happy they did away with that baggage car that MTH offered.

The big question: how will the paint stack up against MTH paint?

Well, open air cars I don't think anyone has done, and that means new tooling needed. See how long that takes if they do decide to do those. Guessing that may be as well for other offerings we have not yet seen.

@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

Well, open air cars I don't think anyone has done, and that means new tooling needed. See how long that takes if they do decide to do those. Guessing that may be as well for other offerings we have not yet seen.

They could reuse most of the tooling from the current cars (Frame, roof, trucks, majority of the detail parts etc.)

Would just need a new body/ modify the current body. This quickens the turn around time.

@Prr7688 posted:

They could reuse most of the tooling from the current cars (Frame, roof, trucks, majority of the detail parts etc.)

Would just need a new body/ modify the current body. This quickens the turn around time.

Don't know. Ryan said that they went with what they could make. He also said he didn't want to make anything else using the toolings and painting it to one of the cars(like the Marian or other cars) that doesn't look like that. It would be interesting if they could use the toolings to do the open air cars, but I don't know if that would work for those.

I didn’t know there was one offered with the Cherry Crest name on it. Obviously, named after the Cherry Crest Adventure farm down the road. My fiancé and I love taking the kids there. We are planning to go again this year. I might have to order that one right after I cut off my arm and leg and sell them so I can pay for it!

Did any of the MTH cars have the Cherry Crest name? Although I doubt I will ever see those MTH cars on the secondary market. I do have one MTH Strasburg passenger car and I am concerned about the paint color matching.

@Hudson J1e posted:

I didn’t know there was one offered with the Cherry Crest name on it. Obviously, named after the Cherry Crest Adventure farm down the road. My fiancé and I love taking the kids there. We are planning to go again this year. I might have to order that one right after I cut off my arm and leg and sell them so I can pay for it!

Did any of the MTH cars have the Cherry Crest name? Although I doubt I will ever see those MTH cars on the secondary market. I do have one MTH Strasburg passenger car and I am concerned about the paint color matching.

I don't know Phil, but I would suspect that it is a possibility since the tooling is the same. No idea where to look.

Glad I bought the boxes with MTH on them. At $200 per I'm happy with what I have.          j

Do you guys think these cars will still have the Kadee coupler pads as the MTH versions did? And will the MTH 2 rail trucks fit these cars? There is always a possibility that Lionel will change stuff right? Just wondering.

I imagine that the folks to ask is Lionel, I doubt anyone here actually knows what Lionel may or may not do to change the cars.  My guess, and it's just that, is they'll be pretty close to what MTH offered.

@Hudson J1e posted:

Do you guys think these cars will still have the Kadee coupler pads as the MTH versions did? And will the MTH 2 rail trucks fit these cars? There is always a possibility that Lionel will change stuff right? Just wondering.

Don't know. I looked at the catalog for these and the later ones in the catalog, no mention on either. Also popped on YouTube to review what they said about them on the Ryan & Dave show, no mention. I would suggest email Ryan or Dave to see if they can answer this. Either that or tag them here to see what they say if they reply.

@Hudson J1e posted:

I didn’t know there was one offered with the Cherry Crest name on it. Obviously, named after the Cherry Crest Adventure farm down the road. My fiancé and I love taking the kids there. We are planning to go again this year. I might have to order that one right after I cut off my arm and leg and sell them so I can pay for it!

Did any of the MTH cars have the Cherry Crest name? Although I doubt I will ever see those MTH cars on the secondary market. I do have one MTH Strasburg passenger car and I am concerned about the paint color matching.

Passenger car 70 is named "Cherry Crest" in real life and on the mth model.

I would love to see open air cars, and also some accurate tooling of the first class and dinning car window configuration. I don't know what it involves, but that would make a very accurate Strasburg train, and would be pretty cool

Thanks for the information.

@Conrail6358, @Dave Olson  hey Ryan, could you or Dave please answer the question on if these cars will have the Kadee couplers pads that @Hudson J1e asked above? I know that the catalog doesn't list them, and that you and Dave didn't mention them during the catalog review. I am guessing this could be a "We're looking into it" or "stay tuned" if it's not possible to answer at this time.

I know that it doesn't matter to me, but gotta cover all the bases, right? I'm sorry I didn't get a chance this week to pop this on sooner, just been busy Dave this week. Hopefully we'll hear sometime soon.