600 Series Cars, What Pulls Them

In the prewar days those cars were headed by the 263E for the Blue Comet, they also showed up behind the 225E, 238E and 763E. In the earlier years with the latch couplers, they were also pulled by the 262. No doubt there are others, but that's a start.

The passenger sets headed by the 260E were the larger 710 / 712 cars.  

Thanks Blue Comet,

I will check these out

JoeG

I have a set of the MTH 600 cars make sure the engine tender has the correct coupler height. I wanted to use them behind my Lionel 225 but the couplers were wrong.

franktrain 

I rigged the coupler with a wire and used it behind my Harry Potter engine, I thought it looked good

The box coupler on a 2226 tender has a noticeable upturn on it's bracket to handle the higher couplers on premium 0 cars. 

Here's the grossly over sized 2817 caboose behind the 226's, 2226W tender.   Seems there are 2 heights in 0 much like the 2 heights in classic standard gauge.  Engines and cars with electro-couplers might be the reason behind raised mountings to provide adequate clearance.

More to the point....if the MTH reproductions are faithful then I take it the cars in question are #613, 614 & 615.  They were cataloged by Lionel from 1933-37 with engines # 262E, 255E and 263E Blue Comet.

In 1938 the car numbers changed to # 2613, 2614 and 2615, pulled by the 0 engines 263E and 226E plus they carried over into 072 sets pulled by the 763E.  Finally they are discontinued after 1940.

Bruce

Wow! I love this forum. It is always a wealth of information, especially since I have really only been into tinplate for a few years.

Thanks everyone!

Joe