Thinking about purchasingan older Legacy equipped Lionel SD70ACe (from late 2000s to mid-teens or so 2014, 2016).
For those years, I see the catalog entries for the SD70ACe's measured at 17.5"
Current catalog (2023) lists same model at 19". So are they being measured differently nowadays?
Which one is true scale, 1:48? Thanks for any clarification.
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The length of the a 1:48 scale SD70ACe would be 18.5" coupler to coupler.
Thanks, John. Do we know if there might have been any updated or new tooling used for production in more recent years that might account for the different published lengths in their catalogs?
Are we rehashing an old topic? https://ogrforum.com/...016-volume-2-catalog
@Christian A. Babcock posted:....... in the 2016 Volume 2 Catalog............ These new BTO SD70ACe's are stated to be 19' Inches Long. Now why does this bother me? It's because every other SD70ACe released by Lionel in the past are 17 1/2' Inches Long.
@Jim R. posted:I just measured my MTH SD70ACe. It measures about 18.5 inches coupler to coupler. Are you sure the original Lionel model was 17 1/2 inches long or are you going by the catalog descriptions?
@Alfred E Neuman posted:Jim R. gives us a clue. Is the measurement from couplers end-to-end or just the length of the chassis?
@Christian A. Babcock posted:I went and emailed Lionel about this. According to them, it will be the same tooling as all previous SD70ACe's.
I guess we were. Thanks for directing me to that post you remembered. Didn't show up in my advanced search for these 3 keywords together: "Lionel" "SD70ACe" "length"
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