I have kinda gone scale. Buying scale versions of traditional locos in my collection. But I have a huge collection of traditional size locos. My MTH RK had been packed up.....until today I had to pull a MTH RK PRR K4 out and compare it with my recent Williams scale Mike. I wanted to see if I could run my scale and RK items together and it look OK. Hoped they'd be real close and could share the layout daily. The answer was no. This photo doesn't show how different the two locos are.....the scale loco much taller than the RK. Bigger and bulkier.
Before you say I am comparing apples and oranges it's my understanding the K4 and Mike used the same boiler and cab on the PRR.....so other than wheel arrangement they are close.
Now I'm kinda bummed. I have a number of RK locos I more than likely will not be able to find scale version (for the price range I want) Don't get me wrong...the MTH RK K4 is a very nice loco....just wish it weren't so small.
My fault though.....when I came to O 3r in 1993 I should have been better educated about the differences.....I guess ignorance was not bliss!!! So it looks like I can't mix them....have to have 'scale' and 'traditional' days of running!! Thx
