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I've followed this thread, noticing that 'standard gauge' doesn't seem to mean the same thing to all posters.  Lionel 'invented' Standard Gauge'.  American Flyer copied it and I believe they referred to it as Wide Gauge, as did Ives.  If you do an internet search on Lionel, Ives, and American Flyer you can find a lot of stuff that may or may not be accurate.  That great font of knowledge, Wikipedia, mentions Lionel's O gauge having a 27 inch radius; HORSEFEATHERS!  The diameter of a circle of regular Lionel O gauge track, from center rail to center rail, measures 28.28 inches (10 inches times 2 times the square root of 2), which is a radius of 14.14 inches.  Anybody that believe the data on Wikipedia is accurate gets what they deserve - end of rant.So Standard Gauge is of USA origin and quite apart from gauges 0 (zero), 1, 2 , and 3, wider than gauge 1 by quite a bit. But the exact gauge in inches for Standard Gauge varies from site to site.  Some of this, I suspect, is because of the tubular track - the distance often being measured from center to center of the tubular rail or measured between the rails as T rail is. Art
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