Lionel Deliveries

[Lionel Bob]

Question, has anyone experienced a problem with deliveries from Lionel? Ordered two tank cars in August, 2013, was lead to believe that delivery would be made in December, 2013. Recently contacted train store where order was placed, no idea when delivery would be made. Back to web site, delivery now shown February, 2014. Recent visit to web site, now no date for delivery. Checked with other train stores, got the same results. Whatever the problem, it seems to be with all tank cars.

[Bob Keller]

Production and delivery delays are problematic throughout model railroading, not just Lionel or O gauge. Be prepared to need patience.

[Dave632]

 Lionel parts are also a disaster. Trains that are only a few years out of  production have parts that are NLA and some that are supposedly available have no date of delivery.

 You can get parts for Lionel trains that are 50-60 years old much quicker and easier. MTH is just as bad.

[BigAl 956]

I ordered the Neil Young Series Texas Special set back in May. Was supposed to ship in August. The Non Powered A shipped on time the rest of the set says February last time I checked.

Lionel is not as bad as MTH. I've waited years for MTH to ship some items.

[sir james I]

Sadly delivery dates don't mean much. Many of us have learned to preorder and forget about it till at some point in time it does arrive.

S.J.

[Captaincog]

Lionel has improved quite a bit and even with the parts being out of stock or no longer available for some recent items. However they are way better then MTH for parts and service. I have a Tinplate 256 in for warranty repair at MTH for 4 months now and was told at least another 2 months for parts if they get lucky enough to get the parts. My 256 will be out of warranty before it gets fixed. Not happy to say the least.....and yes I can find parts and fix the original prewar and postwar with no problems.

[Lionel Bob]

Thank you for your response.

[Firelock76]

Such are the perils of outsourcing production overseas.  I realize it was done for very good reasons, but there's always a downside.