Many of their caboose's are the same size, with the premier one having more detail.
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In my experience, Rail King pieces tend to have scale height and width, but are shortened in length if at all. A caboose would be short enough even for tight turns. This is in contrast to most Lionel O27 pieces, which are smaller in all three dimensions. I doubt that a Rail King caboose would look right behind a 6464.
Bob Nelson
Did a little online research and apparently the Premier Line offset caboose was re-branded to the RailKing Line. So the same caboose.
But it might be a little large for 6464 boxcars since it was originally a Premier Line caboose.
I found the dimensions:
10 1/4" long (not sure if this includes couplers)
2 1/2" wide
4 1/4" high (not sure if this includes trucks)
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website
RailKing articles tend to be a bit smaller than the Premiere line, so a RailKing caboose would work better with 027 rolling stock.
The Premiere line is "O" gauge scale, that is 1/48 size, a bit oversize for 027 consists.
Is there a difference in size between the MTH RailKing and Premier line offset steel caboose?
I'm looking for an ATSF style caboose that will look OK with O-27 sized freight cars. O-27 meaning Lionel 6464 sized boxcars.
I saw a RailKing offset caboose in person and it looked like it would fit in pretty well with. Maybe a little large, but not as bad as some others I've seen.
But I also see online that there are several similar looking MTH cabeese in the Premier line.
So is there any size difference between the two models? Or is this merely a packaging/re-branding difference?
Thanks for any info you can provide.
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