@FortyFivePalms posted:Hello folks,
Last week I decided to add some rolling stock to my small inherited collection of Lionel postwar equipment. I figured that all Lionel O-gauge was the same size, right? Boy, did I get that one wrong. (I can hear all you Lionel experts chuckling out there!) I bought a boxcar and a couple of hoppers and when they arrived they seemed to be huge compared to my postwar rollers. So I did some research (here and elsewhere) and discovered that there are many variations of scale in the O-gauge world, and each one can be a different size.
I really want to keep all of my Lionel acquisitions to be in scale with my smaller-scale postwar stuff (which I assume is technically O27).
Going forward, do I have to restrict myself to only postwar (up to 1969) equipment?
Is any of the modern era equipment compatible in scale?
Is there anything in the Lionel numbering scheme that will tell me what scale it is?
If not, has anyone complied a database or reference that classifies each part number by scale?
Does this variation in scale apply to locomotives also?
Thanks in advance!
A recent thread on this topic may be of interest.
This website is also a good resource for Post War Lionel
