It’s easy with locomotives, usually, to tell the difference between Legacy scale products and LionChief
But how do you change the difference between Semi scale cars and scale cars with the boxes being identical. Couldn’t Lionel mark it on the box or am I missing something
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Don't know about Lionel but MTH uses different boxes for different lines. So do other manufacturers. If you are buying new the catalog should tell you. Part of the fun in this hobby is doing the research. Info is available on line.
@Bill DeBrooke posted:Don't know about Lionel but MTH uses different boxes for different lines. So do other manufacturers. If you are buying new the catalog should tell you. Part of the fun in this hobby is doing the research. Info is available on line.
While I do my research, how do you tell the part numbers apart?
also when you are at a train show, which is where I get a lot of my trains there’s no way to tell the difference on the fly
@yardtrain I posted some answers about this here Semi vs Scale - How to tell? | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum (ogaugerr.com).
What you're looking for maybe in there. If not, then happy to help if I can.
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