I am fairly new to O gauge and have a question about Lionel and MTH. I have the Lionel Chesapeake & Ohio Allegheny and several Lionel C&O coal hopper cars. I wanted to know if the MTH Chesapeake & Ohio caboose could be used, scale wise. Does Lionel and MTH railroad cars go good together, do they have the same look and scale to them?
My personal preferences are either K-Line or Lionel, they come with smoke units whereas the others do not. Assuming you are talking standard “O” hoppers the premier line matches up well, I have a Railking B&O caboose and it appears very small next to “O” scale cars.