Merkur 9406 red boxcar

Today, I played with the new red boxcar of Merkur. As you can judge for yourself, it adds great to a string of prewar Lionel goods waggons of the 800 series.

The old Lionel 814 box car is slightly shorter than the Merkur 9406; 8.3 vs 10.8 inch (21 vs 27 cm). But they are both equally wide and high. The Lionel boxcar has only two doors, the Merkur four. The Lionel can have shining journal boxes and some brass details on the sides. The modern full-metal tin-plate Merkur box car is more realistic.

Here you clearly see the level of detail on this modern tin-plate box car. Mind the slightly smaller axle-to-axle distance as compared to the Lionel cars.

Here you can see how the Merkur waggon with Bing couplers couples easily with the latch type prewar Lionel gondola. Time to take the lot for a run.

Ok, Frank, message understood. Here are some pictures with the Merkur box car coupled to a crisp, freshly restored Lionel 812 Gondola. Much better indeed.