Well MPC fans I have something today that I hope will interest you. I had been generously given along with some other trains my brother in law's boyhood Lionel's. Included in that group was the # 2559 Baltimore and Ohio (unpowered) RDC. He told me he used to pretend it was the dining car on his passenger train. Well I recently was able to acquire, for a very modest price, an MPC Baltimore and Ohio RDC the # 8764 and I decided to put them together. So here is MPC helping out a classic Lionel around the layout.
Here is an interesting fact, the #2559 is from 1957 and the MPC # 8764 is from 20 years later, 1977. Here they are together. Candidly except for minor variations in the lettering and of course the number, I could not detect any change at all in the basic casting of the car or its construction including the "people" strip on the windows.
Here is a little video, showing them moving about my layout.
Hope you enjoyed this MPC excursion from more traditional locomotive + cars type trains.
Best wishes
Don
