I've bought one of these E5 AA sets. It is a great disappointment having been
looking for a Q E5 not an E6 painted up in Burlington livery. There is no
resemblance to the actual E5 I'm sorry to say. For the price listed I would
have thought they could have put some more effort into replicating a Q E5 ...
such as they did in the UP veranda.
I have shared my views with Lionel twice.
Norm Andersen
----- Original Message -----
From: bill_og
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 13:10 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] FYI To O-Gaugers: Review of Lionel's Issued CB&Q E5 AA Set
FYI. Lionel has released their CB&Q E5 AA set in the last 2 weeks.
They are essentially the same as Lionel's catalog illustration. The
bodies, fuel tanks, and trucks are painted silver. The lower sides
are smooth with no fluting and with no shadow-line stripes as a
fluting substitute. There are no immitation red grills on either
side of the Mars light. The lettering is the Zephyr Gothic font.
There is a full color BR herald on the nose.
View the models at your dealer if interested.
Bill H.
--- In BRHSlist@y..., "bill_og" <haywarb@b...> wrote:
> This is an FYI to 3-rail O-gauge CB&Q fans from an "individual BRHS
> member". I am not employed or involved in any "commercial
> enterprise" for the sale of "rail model" or "railfan merchandise".
> This post is offered in the same spirit as the FYI product
> announcements in the BRHS's Zephyr Newsletter and website Model
> index.
>
> Lionel's 2002/Volume 2 catalog is now available at dealers but not
> yet posted on their website. They have 2 CB&Q offerings:
>
> 1. E5 AA diesel set for MSRP $650 (dealors often offer discounts).
> From the catalog illustration, the model is based on their E6
tooling
> (the prototypre E6 was similar but not identical to the prototype
> E5). One A unit is powered, the other is a dummy. The units are
> named Silver Carrier (#9915A) and Silver Clipper (#9915B, note that
> the prototype Silver Clipper was a B unit). I can not tell from
the
> catalog illustration if the units are simply painted silver or if
> they will be "chromed" like Lionel's 1980 Zephyr F3's. The
> nose "window" stripes are red but the illustration does not show
> any "grill" stripes on either side of the Mars light. The trucks
and
> fuel tanks are silver in the illustration. The illustration shows
> decals for both the E5 model plate and the EMD builder's plate.
The
> word "BURLIN #### GTON" on the sides is split by one of the side
> vents (the E6 tooling has the taller side windows that does not
> allow "BURLINGTON" to be prototypically placed below the vents and
> above the windows. Also, the lower sides appear to be smooth (the
> E5's had the ribbed fluting here); possibly Lionel will either add
> the ribbing or possibly use a "shadow-line" parallel lines to
> simulate fluting.
>
> Although MTH did a CB&Q E6 ABA set recently, the E5 has never been
> offered before in O-gauge, probably since the BR lines are the only
> prototypical roads for E5 tooling. Lionel's attempt may be the
> closest O-gauge ever gets to a true E5 model. Although the catalog
> illustration has some deviations, I am hoping that the released
model
> surpasses those expectations (this was certainly the case with
> Lionel's recent BR/C&S U30C which is a fantastic model).
>
> No mention is made of a matching passenger consist. Lionel usually
> announces these in subsequent catalogs. I hope they offer a vista
> dome Twin Cities Zephyr (never done in O-gauge). Lionel usually
does
> their streamlined cars in plated aluminum.
>
> 2. Lionel has also offered a Chinese red stock car with black/white
> cows for MSRP $55.
>
>
> FYI only since I am not in any "commercial enterpripe". Visit your
> favorite dealer if you want more info.
>
> Bill H.
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