I’m very excited to see the latest installments of the PWC series. I heard a rumor that this series is about to end - anyone else heard this?
FEClionel,
I think the next catalog is due out in August. Hopefully, the rumor you heard is only a rumor. I would hate to see the series come to an end, although I think Lionel could do more with the series that what they done. There are many more great engines and accessories that could be reproduced. I would like to see the 3656 stockyard and cattle car set reissued. I have five postwar sets, and I wouldn’t hesitate to buy the reissue.
Jim
Hello FEC! Don’t pay attention to rumors. Lionel will let us know whether or not the PWC series will continue. I happen to believe that it will go on as they have not released any of the 736,646,2046,675, or 224 Engines or their derivitives yet. Nor have they released the 6440 tin passenger cars which would be a nice addition to the series as well. Keep up the faith. Take Care.
Soon, I hope…I’m hearing the end of July.
Stan.
Sometime in July.
its already out in memphis at the hobbyshop i go to.
The 2006 Christmas Catalog will most likely mean that the 2006 Volume II Catalog will have no Christmas Items and it will most likely be out in August.
They Post War Celebration Series will continue because they already have the tooling.
Andrew
THATBOY37
What PWC items/sets are in the catalog?
I would think that if it’s out you’d see it on their website.
Wait for the countdown clock.
the hobby shop the i go to the owner he tried to get me to buy it but i have to many items as it is and have not used them yet. plus once you see something new you want it. once you get bitten by the train bug you have that symthem forever and im trying to get over it right now. also the only pages that i have looked at are the ones with the fastrack and the new zw’s. if you would like a copy of the book which he has copies of you can contact the store.
The Hobby Shop, ask for Richard and tell him that Reggie referred you his shop. the telephone number is 901-384-6500, and they are opened from 10am to 6pm monday to saturday central time. in my earlier post to you he has the book and can ship it to you if you want or need it. until next time peace.
thatboy37 aka reggie
Geez Reggie, some dealer! He got it a full week before Lionel got it back from the printer! I’d love to have a dealer like that!
Jon[8D]
Guys, Check out the post I started on New Lionel Stuff. It tells you how to see pictures of what is in the new catalog. Until the catalog comes out it’s a good sneak peek. TomS
I was at Nicholas Smith Trains this morning. “Mr.Smiley” huffed he didn’t know WHEN they would get it. Joe
No offense to anyone, but I don’t don’t know why all the fuss. Supposedly there was a mediapreview link on the Lionel web site that had some pics of some of the K-Lionel items to be made. That link isn’t working now, but some on the ORG forum are already dumping on that preview. As if the folks at Lionel are going to reintroduce a load of scale sized products that K-Line themselves couldn’t sell at their already lower list price. Remember folks, there were lots of K-Line blowouts on scale stuff in the past couple years.
I would almost hate to be running a train company these days, with the exception of RMT. You can’t please anyone… most of the product offering are the scale high end stuff that the minority of buyers are crying for, and still they’re NEVER happy.
“Well why didn’t they make this instead of that?”
“The headlights are in the wrong place.”
“The cuff rate is still incorrect.”
“I’m waiting for the next updated version of TMCC.”
MAN, I’m glad I’m happy with TOY trains. Even I understand that it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to tool up all these new products. And for who? The statistics show the majority of 3-rail train operators are STILL NON-command, traditional, table top operators. As of last year according to Lionel, only 25% of the market was actively using TMCC, yet some think they’ll sell more locos if they have TMCC. Good, but that fails to explain the rapid success of the RMT BEEP and the BUDDY… both non-command and non-scale. And the BEEP is available in around 40 roadnames, so it’s gotta be popular.
I sure do not understand the supposed logic in this hobby sometimes… gee, pick out the smallest group of customers and pour all your efforts in to appeasing that group. K-Line was in deb
I’d really like to see a new Texas Special, but not a Premium set or LionMaster set, a ready-to-run set with RailSounds.A nice remake would be of the 700E Hudson, complete with rolling stock.