I's easy knowing what the scale is of a MTH engine before you purchase or see it since the Premiere line is scale, Rugged Rails is 0-27, and RailKing is semiscale.
Do Lionel or Atlas categorize their engines in a similar way?
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With Lionel, their Standard O line is scale, while the Traditional line is not scale. With Atlas, everything but their Industrial Rail line is scale (Trainman line is scale but with less add on detail).
Andy
Is there a way to determine the Standard O Line from the Traditional Line...I do not recall the boxing being clearly labeled. I was in a LHS while on vacation and there were a lot of Lionel items but was having some difficulty in determining what was scale and what was not
With Lionel, you have to read the description labels on the box or research the items in the catalogs or on the web site. Shop employees should be able to help in this regard as well. I think the labels on more recent production Standard O state that the item is Standard O in the item description label, but this has not always been the case. I wish Lionel had a better way of marking the boxes and making the Standard O items easier to find.
Andy
I learnt from the owner of Electric Train Outlet in St. Louis, MO that scale sized Lionel freight cars, released or rereleased in the last few years, individually packed, have the item number beginning with 6-17### or 6-27###. This may also apply to 2-car or 3-car sets, but not always.
I am into 2-rail trains & I buy scale-sized Lionel freight cars to convert to 2-rail. I am not familiar with their item numbering scheme for locomotives or for passenger cars. I usually learn more about the prototype cars that I am interested in & this helps guide my determination of scale-sized equipment.
These are just my opinion,
Thanks,
Naveen Rajan
Originally Posted by Bossman284:
Is there a way to determine the Standard O Line from the Traditional Line...I do not recall the boxing being clearly labeled. I was in a LHS while on vacation and there were a lot of Lionel items but was having some difficulty in determining what was scale and what was not
