CoastsideKevin posted:Hi everybody,
Thanks for weighing in on this. Your comments were all super helpful. I ended up looking at the Lionel and MTH O27 cars and really liking them. Well made, relatively affordable, and the right size for my non-scale layout with 031 switches.
I bought a 4 pack of the MTH cars in 2 stripe Santa Fe livery, which match a number of my locomotives nicely, including my postwar 2353 F3 ABA set. I have another three cars coming this week, including the full vista dome and the diner/coach combine.
Given these cars are 13.5” long, wider and taller than my postwar O27 24xx cars, they look much better in my opinion so am very pleased with them.
Here is what they looked like cruising by a yard office I built yesterday:Thanks again everyone- as always this is such a great resource. Happy railroading!
Good choice. I run these MTH mixed with some Lionel with the red stripes (not prototypical) behind Lionel Santa Fe FTs. Great looking train. I added the MTH full and partial vista domes.
