While taking photos today I also took a few that are comparisons of different models of the same car.

This pair is the focus for today, Scale-Craft and Lionel cabooses, S-C on top and Lionel below. Outwardly they look quite similar, the bodies have differences but they are on the whole surprisingly small. The most obvious spotting features are the trucks and the cupola windows. The Scale-Craft trucks have a somewhat more toy-like appearance than the Lionel trucks, and the windows are larger in the Lionel model. These two particular cars have had a few extra details added, especially the S-C car as I added new brake wheels. The Lionel car was rebuilt from a junker quite recently (the wheel sets have been replaced with those from English’s Model Railroad Supply) and the S-C car was done back in the early 80s.