I know both Lionel and MTH make decent subway cars. WHo makes the best ones? We are building a great subway line for our new and improved club (coltrains.com) and am thinking about a future purchase. I don't like the 'high water pants' of some of the MTH that I have seen.
Lionel's R-27, R 30 and R 16's are scaled pretty nicely and have very realistic operating doors and sound systems , especially when used with the Legacy system as they were designed for.Mth offer's their Premier line which is pretty much to scale and offers the R-1 type's which are really detailed for that age group, but the really detailed ones are the R 32's and the R 38's in my opinion.the doors manually open on the r 32's with a type of slide system. The smaller IRT versions in the Railking line are less detailed with cast on parts, but could be reworked if you use the Q- car works details, in fact they make scale model kits for the R 17s, but i do not know if you want to build a train set from scratch, Gman.
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