2006 Hallmark Catalog with Lionel Ornaments

[Anonymous]

The 2006 Hallmark Catalog with Lionel Ornaments is now on the website

www.hallmark.com

They stuck with the big roads this year: Union Pacific and Pennsylvania.

There is a Pennsy B-6 Steam Switcher and Tender.

Then they have the Union Pacific Veranda, Tender, and Live Stock Car.

Who is waiting to get these ornaments based on LIONEL models of real railroad equipment?

I might get the B-6 Switcher and Tender, plus the Live Stock Car.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Andrew Falconer

[pmilazzo]

So now its not a copy of a famous toy train...its a copy of a copy of a famous toy train which is a copy of a real train. Where will the madness end?

[riverrailfan]

The biggest disapointment is that they don't fit on N-scale track. I display mine during xmas due to fear of them falling off the tree.

[Anonymous]

I stopped collecting the series a couple of years ago or so. Although I like Christmas train ornaments, and have a small tree devoted to Hallmark's earlier and much larger "Tin Locomotive" items that I keep up all year, I found that the more current "scale" Hallmark series of Lionel trains was getting a bit out of hand in terms of what was being offered and the price of these objects--usually about $18 or more per item (locomotive, tender, etc. separately). You can still get them for 50% or more off the day after Christmas if you're willing to go that route and can find a dealer willing to put one aside for you, but that's not for me.

I have most all the earliest items in this series, and even have duplicates in some cases, but will pass on anything that carries the UP livery (especially a boxy Veranda) and have little interest in a rather mundane Pennsy B6.

As far as I am concerned, they need to get back to focusing on the early Lionel classics--especially the more colorful items--if they want to maintain interest in this line of ornaments.