Originally Posted by mustang:
I have both the MTH and Lionel in UP livery. Be advised that the Lionel version has fixed pilots, so 0-72 is required. MTH you can run on 0-36 as it has truck mounted couplers.
Not according to Lionel.
Place your locomotive on Lionel or Lionel-compatible O-42 (O-54 recommended) track.
It has no problem dragging cars through the O54 switches on our modular layout, don't know about O42.