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K-Line's aluminum cars (and for that matter, anyone else's) are scale width. Most discussion focuses on the length when talking about "scale" since 18-inch cars are usually listed amongst the higher-end product of the companies that make them, but only 21-inch cars are "truly scale" since their real-life counterparts are 85'  long.

Your scale boxcars should look just fine. "Semi scale" boxcars may look a little narrow if viewed next to them from overhead. (and as for height, remember that during the streamliner era, most freight trains had substantially uneven rooflines ).

---PCJ

Last edited by RailRide

Pull up any YouTube video of a mixed or manifest freight. Modern 50-foot boxcars vary between standard and hi-cube cars. In the streamliner era, boxcar rooflines were even more all-over-the-map. Next to a steam locomotive's tender, a boxcar could look like a runt or tower over it, depending on what kind of tender was involved.

Even within 'traditional' size boxcars, there is variance in roof height, usually between different manufacturers. Some people are actually bothered by this and insist on buying rolling stock from only one company in order to ensure all the cars are the same height.

I myself have been collecting screen shots of videos showing unequal-sized tank cars next to one another, in order to demonstrate the real-life version of my intermixing RailKing modern tank cars with Premier ones (from my big tank car spree during 2015-2016)...when the question comes up.

---PCJ

 

 

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