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Hi Kevin, What can one say? Very well put and quite sweeping and I still use imperial rather than metric but there's nothing wrong with 16mm to the foot, is there? It comes down, as most things do, to personal choice. If someone wants to model 1:20.3 and everything they do equates to the old 3' guage and is scaled accordingly then I applaud them and admire them for all the scratch buidling/kit bashing they must do. Similarily if a UK modeller decided to build the old GWR broad guage then I would treat them equally, perhaps I would think them a bit nutty, but whose to say whose sane! To do both properly then they would really have to be in an enclosed area where everything therein is to that scale.I can only basically reiterate what I said earlier, it's a garden railroad set in the easiest scale imaginable, 12" to 1', my house is in this scale as I am, the whole world around me is. My railway isn't, it's mine, it does what I want it too and goes were I put tracks for it. It's G and is everything that that denominator stands for. If my 1:20.3 connie is pulling Bachmann freight at 1:22.5 then I really think that's Bachmanns fault, but I don't care. Similarily when my 1:29 diesel is pulling Bachmann freight then that's my fault but I think USA/Aristo freight cars are very overpriced and at the end of the garden who the heck can tell anyway. To all of you scale guru's out there, I applaud you. To all of you none scale, the devil may care brigade, I applaud you. Actually, we are all right. Cheers, Kim [tup][2c]
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