BobbyD posted:Just run a Polar Express tender with a different steam engine?
Sure, why not just buy one of the separate sale PE tenders and run it with whatever engine you want?
prrhorseshoecurve posted:Rider Sandman posted:I believe the 0-6-0 is traditional size and not scale. So, that is not what I’m looking for in regard to the scale freight. Otherwise, I like all of your ideas - something needs to just show up in the catalog. I should have bought one of the undecorated heavy mikes and lettered it, but cant find one now.
Sorry but your belief is wrong. That 0-6-0 is full scale. It does mimic a Reading RR switching locomotive.
In 2015 Lionel cataloged a B6 Legacy Switcher in the Polar Railroad name. Could not find any Polar Express switchers except the new Lionel Chief Elf set that had a 0-6-0T engine. I always thought Polar Railroad was the name of the RR like Pennsylvania Rail Road and Polar Express was the name of it’s special train like Broadway Limited was a trains name not a railroad.
Lionel has issued other engine and freight cars using the Polar Express name, don’t know why they did not make them “Polar Railroad” but then we are talking about trains that were in a children’s book so I guess there are no prototypical rules that apply. I think that is the way it should be.
JohnB
My best guess John was that "Polar Railroad" was an interm scheme to [A] "test the waters" and see if people would buy scale freight cars closely decorated as polar express and [B] until Lionel could get the ok from the P.E. licensing dept to run freight as well. I doubt we will see anymore Polar RR freight now that Lionel has the "Green light" to make "Polar Express" freight.
