Have you ever seen a copper/bronze colored wheel when cleaning them up? These two wheel sets both came off the same truck (9530 Southern Crescent Baggage Car)
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Marty Fitzhenry posted:MPC
So are you saying they mixed old and new stock on wheel sets when building these cars? I thought all PW wheels were made from zamac?
That Southern Crescent car isn't a PW car - it's from the later MPC era (specifically, this car was made in 1977-1978). I owned hundreds of MPC era cars over the years, and have seen some with the bronze-colored wheel type, but those were very few. These are two different types of wheels, not just the color - look at the interiors of them, and the different construction is obvious. There has been some discussion on the Forum in the past about the history of the different types of wheels Lionel has used. In any case, I never saw any mixed sets of wheels on any car. Chances are your car wasn't that way when it left the factory, but rather some owner along the way replaced a set of the wheels, for whatever reason.
breezinup posted:That Southern Crescent car isn't a PW car - it's from the later MPC era (specifically, this car was made in 1977-1978). I owned hundreds of MPC era cars over the years, and have seen some with the bronze-colored wheel type, but those were very few. These are two different types of wheels, not just the color - look at the interiors of them, and the different construction is obvious. There has been some discussion on the Forum in the past about the history of the different types of wheels Lionel has used. In any case, I never saw any mixed sets of wheels on any car. Chances are your car wasn't that way when it left the factory, but rather some owner along the way replaced a set of the wheels, for whatever reason.
Thanks!
K line too!
Train Nut posted:K line too!
I was going to say that bronze wheel looks more like K-Line than Lionel.
Fred
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