I'm considering purchasing the plated MTH Santa Fe Railking 60' Passenger Cars to go with the MTH Premier Plated Santa Fe F3. Do they go well together? or should I just splurge on the MTH Premier 4 car set?
Thanks,
Sunrise
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Your RR, your rules. Do they seem like they'll look good to you?
Agreed: your RR, your rules, but the 18-inch cars are hard to beat for a more scale-like appearance combined with the ability to run on tighter curves. I think most of the 18s will take as low as O-54.
Sunrise,
I will try to say this the nicest way I can………Don’t be cheap go with the Premier cars you will be much happier with a 18” passenger cars than 15” Rail King cars. That is if being scale is important to you.
JohnB
I use primarily 60' passenger cars with my F3 passenger sets. They look fine. The prototype F3s were fairly short engines anyway, so that isn't a problem. My consideration is space available, not having a huge layout. Even with the 60' cars, an A-B-A set with 6 cars is still about 11 1/2 feet long - not short!
Lashed the Santa Fe F3 with the recently purchased MTH 60’ Christmas passenger cars…doesn’t look too bad….
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Those look just fine to me SS! I run a couple of sets of Premier ABA and Lionel scale F-3's with sets of RK 60' cars and to my eye they look fine. Plus they will run on 031/036 curves whereas Premier 70' cars need 0-42 minimum. Is that 036 FasTrack on your layout? You have someone's full attention there!
@Rod Stewart posted:Those look just fine to me SS! I run a couple of sets of Premier ABA and Lionel scale F-3's with sets of RK 60' cars and to my eye they look fine. Plus they will run on 031/036 curves whereas Premier 70' cars need 0-42 minimum. Is that 036 FasTrack on your layout? You have someone's full attention there!
Rod,
Yes that's 036 curves around the tree. Thanks for your input! Merry Christmas!!!
Sunrise
