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Semantics aside, according to Winchester, they made the Model 1894/94 Rifle & the Model 1894/94 Carbine, in both solid & takedown frame versions.
The only consistant differences between the two Winchester models were that:
1) Carbine Model 1894/94's always have barrel-banded forend wood (3 types of forends); Rifle Model's have a forend cap.
2) Carbine Model's always have one of the 6 different standard Carbine Model buttstocks (3 early versions, 3 late); Rifle Model's had a crescent buttstock.
Of course both models had several changes/variations of "Standard" each for receivers, receiver/tang markings, bbl markings, bbl contours, hammers, & buttplates.
Factory optional on both models, some at no cost, were: barrel length, magazine tube length, forend length, buttstock type, sight type, and extra-finish embellishments like several grades of wood checkering / metal inlaying/engraving.
Taking also into consideration Custom Shop Special Order Winchester's - It's better to get a particular example officially authenticated (lettered) than to presume any feature (making one model look like the other model) on a particular example was Standard.
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