@Keystoned Ed posted:History question from a 2-railer: What is the heritage of the Lionel C-liner tooling. In particular is the body based on tooling first produced by Rivarossi in O scale back in the early 1970's?
After I converted to O scale from HO in 1971 one of my first kit-bashing efforts was to create a C-liner B unit by cutting up a pair of Rivarossi A's. I tossed the very weak power trains (truck mounted HO sized motors) in favor of an All-Nation C-Liner conversion kit. Twenty years later I replaced the All-Nation drive with a custom one I built using Pittman motors, NWSL flywheels, Car Works sprung brass FM trucks, and Overland gear boxes. Almost 50 years later the C-liners still see service on my layout.
The Lionel tooling is ex MTH. Theres a youtube demos with Dave video on it. Lionel retooled the drivetrain and internals to work with legacy. The version due in September will be the 4-6 wheel configuration. Lionel mentioned they will do a 4-4 modified tooling in later runs.
