N scale guy here but I got mad respect for Lionel for making me get into the hobby. Started with 2 G scale sets: the polar express and an old west set with a 2-6-0 steamer and a caboose. Their probably long gone now, but thanks Lionel for getting my feet wet with the hobby.
I did to all of the seventies were my years with Lionel trains. I had all the years from 73 to 79 when I was first getting involved in the Lionel trains, and I remember looking through the catalog almost every day all year
The tooling for the Standard O cars might have come from a company called AHM that made two rail O back at that time. Atlas had some O scale cars back then too, but that didn't catch on back then.
The downfall to Lionel MPC Era trains is that some of the motive power was junk quality. Like the switchers and alcos. The e units on those locomotives where bad quality.
Lionel is to model trains what Colt was to firearms. They came up with a fantastic product that was fantastically expensive and a business model that was ultimately not sustainable. They both had quality issues and cut costs by reducing quality. They also both went bankrupt 2 or 3 times each... Lionel is about to torpedo themselves again because they want to stop making the legacy system. All the new stuff is $1000... where is your market? It ain't me...
That Cannonball train set was my very first train set ever. It got me addicted to model trains
N scale guy here but I got mad respect for Lionel for making me get into the hobby. Started with 2 G scale sets: the polar express and an old west set with a 2-6-0 steamer and a caboose. Their probably long gone now, but thanks Lionel for getting my feet wet with the hobby.
Great video
Another awesome catalog keep up the great videos
Thank you
@@donstrains Your very welcome
I remember getting these catalogs when they first came out! Thanks for the memories!
I did to all of the seventies were my years with Lionel trains. I had all the years from 73 to 79 when I was first getting involved in the Lionel trains, and I remember looking through the catalog almost every day all year
You are right that poor dog is very concerned. LOL
That southern express set was the first lionel set I ever got
Shoot I know I didn't grow up in 70's or 80's or 90's but I do love collect them old or new it doesn't matter to me
I have the Miller and Schlitz cars.
The tooling for the Standard O cars might have come from a company called AHM that made two rail O back at that time. Atlas had some O scale cars back then too, but that didn't catch on back then.
scale o gauge cars molds were a west German firm Pola.?
That could be right. I know they got them from someone else.
The downfall to Lionel MPC Era trains is that some of the motive power was junk quality. Like the switchers and alcos. The e units on those locomotives where bad quality.
Lionel is to model trains what Colt was to firearms. They came up with a fantastic product that was fantastically expensive and a business model that was ultimately not sustainable. They both had quality issues and cut costs by reducing quality. They also both went bankrupt 2 or 3 times each... Lionel is about to torpedo themselves again because they want to stop making the legacy system. All the new stuff is $1000... where is your market? It ain't me...