large scale Lionel/Mpc how many?

ALL are NICE, but I only have the Stroh's reefer, and it is my favorite!  

My local Train store has some new in the box for $9.99.  I picked up 12 of them in various road names to make a pretty nice train.  Jon 

Lionel calls it "Standard O"

Way too many made to mention that I could recollect.  While "Standard O" started during the MPC/Fundemensions era, it continues on to this day, both with original and new tooling.

I had them all at one time and they were very nice. Lionel used the Pola molds that they bought in the early 70's. 

The he only problem Lionel did was that there were no near scale locos to run these cars with.  So they did not sell well. 

The original issue of Standard O cars in the 1970's was 15 different cars.

  In 1984, more were issued and the line started growing after that.

That car isn't part of the Standard O line.  It's a reefer car from their regular O/O-27 line.

Sure there were.  The GP7/9 matches perfectly with them for a start, as does the FM Train master and the SD40, all of which did see release during the MPC/Fundemensions era.  Similarly, their U36-Bs and SD-24s, also released during the MPC/Fundemensions era, while short of full scale length, were pretty much scale in size & width so the Standard O cars looked appropriate behind them as well.

     The complete roster of these first Standard O cars was (as far as I can tell):

9801  B&O Sentinel

9802  Miller Beer

9803  Johnson wax

9805  GTW Reefer

9806  Rock Island Boxcar

9807  Stroh's Beer

9808  Union Pacific Boxcar

9809  Clark Bar Reefer

9811  PFE Reefer

9815  NYC Early Bird Reefer

9820  Wabash Gondola

9821  SP Gondola

9822  GTW Gondola

9823  SF Flatcar

9824  NYC Gondola

9825  Schaefer Reefer

9826  P&LE Boxcar

     These were all made between 1973 and 1977.

     When I first heard that Lionel was going to reissue the first scale Hudson since the postwar days in 1984, I stocked up on these Standard O cars so that I would have (somewhat) scale cars to go with the scale Hudson (8406).

     Also, these Standard O cars were the first cars ever issued by Lionel with die cast sprung trucks!

John Knapp

Erie, not Eerie