Rusty Traque posted:AMCDave posted:Industrial Rail was started by United Model Distributors. Great product other than the roller bearing trucks on all the cars. Weakest of the line was the caboose....more S scale and smaller than the smallest Lionel unit.
The IR caboose wasn't just more S Scale, it was S Scale.
Rusty
So far as I know - I never put a ruler on it - the little IR PRR 4-4-2 and tender were also 1:64. I bought a couple for the mechanisms and noted the AF-size look about the boilers as I took them apart. I wonder if any S-scaler ever re-mechanism-ed and re-trucked one for his S layout?
The IR tank cars were actually 1:48, so far as I know. They were models of the small/moderate-sized cars found all over the place pre-1970's.
I have a bunch of the "reefers" (they are not reefers and have no ice hatches; they are plug-door insulated boxcars; Atlas did produce a changed true 027 "reefer" in the line later, I think). The trucks are too modern for most ice-reefers, and they are too narrow (length is fine for some reefers) - yet they look convincing and are built at a high-quality level. A bunch look great behind my Lima AC-9.
AMCDAVE shows just how nice these "little 027" cars can look.
