Model Railroading > Real SP Autorack compared to Lionel

Yesterday I saw CSX intermodal / Autorack combo Q157. Well as the autos were passing on the train, I noticed it had an original Southern Pacific. So I took a photo of it. Anyway, afterwards in the evening, it dawned on me that on our museum layout at Corner Field Model Railroad Museum, we have an O Gauge scale size SP Autorack. Well anyway, I took a photo of that and then I decided to put them here together to compare them. I know some of the detail and markings might be off, but what Lionel did I think is just fine. On the model, from coupler to coupler end is 22 inches.

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Looks like you have some weathering and tagging to do!

Fairly good duplication.

Not bad, I prefer the cleaner look of the model anyway!

Rich

Too bad there's not a way to charge things to where they would blow all the spray back on the taggers.  I hate that crap!

Forget the tagging.
JB

I don't understand how hard to put a legit number on something anymore. Even if its not 100% correct, at least it has a legit number on something very simuliar.

Is the top photo of a tri-level and the bottom O model b-level?

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> Is the top photo of a tri-level and the bottom O
> model b-level?

Yes, you beat me to the punch. The Road number for the Lionel Autorack, howeveris off. A quick search through railcarphotos.com, yields that all of the bi-levels for SP, posted to teh site, have either 516XXX & 518XXX road numbers. The first marker that the prototype photo is a tri-level is the notch in the side sill at the trucks.

Russ

Those fake "holes" are what bother me most. 

Wow, I never realized how popular this topic was going to become.

My first electric train was Lionel, but as an observant child it seemed unrealistic me that Lionel track had/has three rails. By fourth grade I saw HO with two rails and never looked back. Different strokes.

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