Polar Express Diner Car
Monday, May 31st, 2010 at
7:15 pm
Polar Express Diner Car
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 List Price: $69.99 Sale Price: $43.99 Availability: unspecified 
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Product Description
For even more excitement, add a baggage car, a diner and a hot chocolate car to complete your Polar Express train. Features include interior lighting, silhouettes in windows and it measures 12 inches long.
Details
- Interior lighting
- Silhouettes in windows
- Gauge: Traditional O Gauge
- Dimensions: Length: 12"
- RailLine: Polar Express
Tagged with: around the tree train set • Car • christmas train set • Diner • Express • Lionel • lionel trains • Polar • polar express
Filed under: Lionel polar express train set
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The author and artist of the original Polar Express book watched Pere Marquette passenger trains near his house in the last days of steam. When he painted the Polar Express train, he based the artwork on the real trains that had run in those days. Ironically, Lionel had also based a passenger train series and Berkshire locomotive on the passenger trains of the same time and place. So when it came time to make a model of the trains shown in the Polar Express movie, Lionel was ready to go.
“Heavyweight” passenger cars were called that because they had concrete in the floor to make them ride smoother. The “Clerestory” roof originally provided ventilation and headroom – later, when air conditioning came along, they still provided headroom. In other words, these cars represent the “glory days” of North American passenger service. And few cars said more about luxury travel than the dining car, where meals were actually cooked (and not just reheated) for passengers of all classes.
This car will go with ANY Lionel train, but it goes especially well with the Polar Express train. Look for the Baggage Car and the Hot Chocolate car, too.
Paul Race, editor, Big Christmas Trains(tm)
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For those that collect trains, it’s good to know exact match add on items such as this are available
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A nice addition to the Lionel O-gauge Polar Express train set. MSRP is a bit high for this product, but it is competitively priced on Amazon. Gotta have it if you’re a P.E. collector.
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About two weeks ago I wrote a detailed review of this item. Apparently you lost it. Sorry about that. As I recall I said some rather nice things about it too. I just turned 80 last Sunday and therefore I am entitled to forget exactly what I said. I am also legally blind so don’t really get to play with my toys anymore. However I can assure everybody that y grandchildren really had a good time playing with it.
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Very neat looking addition to my grandson Ashton’s Polar Express train set. Well made and durable. It really looks good in the setup. A must have for the Polar Express train set. You will not be disappointed. Highly recommended.