See it at www.lionel.com! Lots of good stuff for you Christmas junkies. But that elf train is freakin’ me out.
Thanks for the link, Marty.
P.S. I like your new plaza on your layout!
Jim
WOW! $60 for one add-on car!
$75 for one handcar?!!
I’d pay $40 for each.
Jim
Thanks MARTY.
laz57
Jim - i hope the pre order prices are lower. They usually are.
Thanks for the link Marty.
TomS
I think the best Christmas engine they ever brought out was the North Pole Central Lines Berkshire. Of course, I have slowly become sort of a Bershire fan over the years. I have a Lionel and an MTH Railking version of it.
George
The North Pole General looks pretty nice, but as for the rest of it… well I guess it’s time to break-out the barfing emoticon again: 
Regards,
Clint
The Christmas Tree Lot appears nice and calm, then I saw the price: $69.99. That got me looking for the animation and sound features, but there is no animation and sound, just lights. It better be perfectly assembled. Seriously folks, K-Line had cataloged a Christmas Tree Lot that was extravagant compared to this. Where is that K-Line Christmas Tree Lot? What is happening here?
Andrew Falconer
Wow! Call me a sentimental old fool but I love it! Gotta get that old time loco and the price is right too. Actually I pretty much like the lot, it would be great to have all that on a low table layout with a real tree in the middle and grandma’s christmas house collection all over, would take up the entire back wall of the living room and half the floor space too but definitely worth doing. Funny how Christmas starts lookin’ good when Spring arrives after I’ve spent the last 3 months moaning about the weather!
The K-Line Christmas Tree Lot was listed as $99.99 in the 2005 First Edition Catalog.
The Lionel Christmas Tree Lot is listed as $69.99 in the Christmas 2006 Catalog.
Apparently K-Line was low balling the price because it has more details and action with a list price of only 30 dollars more. It was listed as having music and animated shoppers.
Lionel apparently has realistic prices, so they will stay in business.
Merry Christmas 2006, everyone. Ho-Ho-Ho!
Andrew Falconer
Well, after viewing the catalog my earlier assumptions are correct. I’ll be preordering the 4-4-0 and the tankcar, maybe even the operating Santa flagman caboose. [:I]
That K-Line Christmas tree lot was made by a manufacturer whose product shows up at hobby and craft shops like Michael’s. I actually got the very same tree lot that K-Line sells with the other brand on it form something like $40!
Lionel is producing their Christmas Tree Lot with Union Labor in China, or they are only making a very small amount of them, or they are using the profits from the Christmas Tree Lot to pay for the tooling of all those expensive new steam locomotives. What other reasons could explain that price for such a small item.
Andrew F.
I personally don’t care for any type of train specifically manufactured as a “Christmas Train”. They generally “REEK” Christmas. After reviewing Lionel new Xmas catalog. I venture to say they are the #1 Christmas train company and the vapors visually rise from their web site! The only item I liked was the Tree lot. Not bad at all or over done.
I have K-line’s and have turned off the sound as it gave me a headache. The rest of the stuff in the Xmas catalog was nothing more than over priced poorly painted trains and junk!
tell us how you really feel, dtpowell.
I actually liked most of the O gauge stuff in the catalogue. I would avoid sound cars though, since they would get real old after a while.
My wife had another thought while looking at the tree/present gondola, “Hey, you could just make that yourself pretty easily with an old gondola and craft stuff.”
My daughter on the other hand just said, “I want it all!”