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Heres my first contribution to the forum. I'm from the UK and have moved to Garden railways from UK OO scale. This uses HO track which is 3.5mm to the foot but the trains are to 4mm to the foot. This is even greater than the difference between 1:29 and the correct 1:32. However I always found that neither difference has offended my eye. I think the reason is this. We tend to see the real thing from track level and are therefore looking across the gauge and not seeing it all. When we look at model trains we are usually looking down on them and thus seeing the whole width. When this is to accurate gauge it mentally seems too wide . The height of the rail also contributes to the illusion. The higher the rail that is used the narrower the gauge appears. So for me PECO at 250 looks better to represent standard gauge than does LGB at 350. However its all academic at the end of the day as the choice is governed by what you want to run matched with whats available. The main thing is to enjoy it. Finally if you are changing from code 350 to code 250 heres a tip. Match your PECO track against the LGB and note the bottom of the PECO rail. This wil be just above the wide base. Make a slot in the LGB rail here and you will find that you can join the peco to the LGB using a peco joiner . Now back to thelittle part of England thats forever Pennsylvania
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