The 1989 remake of the 227, the 6-18000, used a lot of the same parts, maybe from the same tooling. Some times Lionel used the same part numbers for identical parts. Some times they used the same part numbers for parts that are not interchangeable. Some times they used new part numbers. And then there are the wheels. For some reason Lionel used the 701 part numbers for the wheels, but the wheels are not 701 wheels, they are really 227 wheels. That one I will never figure out. I use the 1989 Lionel illustrated parts list and write in the 227 numbers where Lionel changed the numbers. This parts list can be down loaded from the technical support section of the Lionel web site. It is in Supplement 15.
1989 is getting to be a long time ago and even the parts from the remake are getting hard to find. But if you shop all of the 5 or 6 well known parts dealers you still can find most everything you need to keep your 227s running.
