Loco Bill,
I recieved an email from Trainworld
with their Bachmann Christmas specials.

G Scale 90037 Night Before Christmas (NP&S)   $169.99

G Scale 91840 Reindeer Transport Car (Christmas)  $37,99

G Scale 93941 Christmas Street Car W/Santa     $89.99

G Scale 96241 Christmas Hand Car                     $69.99

WWW.TRAINWORLD.COM
orders: 800-541-7010

dave...

Bill,
if you will pm me a postal address I will mail you the page from the catalog.
My scanner is down, so must rely on postal service. The page shows a much better picture if the train, than the web site.
dave...

Quote from: Loco Bill on October 06, 2009, 10:18:59 PM
Bach man,

Here it is October and I am wondering if there are any special sets for the holiday period comming for Sam's, Orchard Supply,  Bass Pro, or other such stores??

Loco Bill,

I recieved a catalog today from:
FRONTGATE
www.frontgate.com

On page 21 of the catalog, they offer:

Frontgate Christmas Train Set (#36464)
Appears to be a series 5 locomotive and tender,
20 ft gondola,  boxcar & bobber caboose
Locomotive numbered # 12
Box car & gondola numbered 30647
tender, boxcar & bobber marked:
North Pole & Southern
gondola marked: NP&S
Price $379.00

at web site must type in number -36464
at current catalog page to find item.

dave...

Bach-man,
Thanks for the information. 
You've  verified what the LHS owner told me.
I wasn't aware of it being fairly rare though.
I'll have to call him tomorrow and see if he's ready
to ship the car to me. 
Since it's fairly rare, it will be a display car for me.
I'm not a "collector", just someone who never lost
the childhood joy of playing with his trains.
Thanks again...
Dave/GSRR

Durring my recent travels I came upon a small LHS that had one piece of LS
rolling stock. The proprietor said the UP Box Car was a Big Hauler Dealer Display Car that he recieved/purchased when Bachmann started offering the Big Hauler line.

I told him I would like to purchase the car, he said he would have to locate the original box and paperwork for it & let me know when he would be able to ship it.

Does anyone or maybe the B-Man know about this (these) cars?
Was the UP box car produced for sale or was it as he said a dealer/display car?

Thanks...
Dave/GSRR

I didn't recieve an email either...

When I went to the B-mann main page and
came to the forums,  my old registration wouldn't work.
Re-registered,  then the confimation link wouldn't work...
Tried once more later (now) and it finally went through.

Thanks for the new boards,.
It's nice to not have to wade through the posts about
other scales find posts relative to Large Scale.