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Good Morning and a Happy Easter to you, I've been modeling HO for years, but the larger scales have caught my attention of late (maybe because my eye sight is getting worse.) As I'm thinking of committing to building a small garden railway, I'm a little confused on scale. I've read some of the FAQ type info on the website and I'm half a year into my subscription to Garden Rwys. Here's the question(s) (and if you'd be so kind to indulge any replies, I'd be very grateful.) It "seems" that the most popular scales are 1:20.3, 1:22.5, 1:24 & 1:29. 1) Is there one of these scales which has the greatest availability of rolling stock (cars and locos?) 2) Its my impression, that people operate any of these "scales" on either one-gauge track (45mm) or 3-gauge track (64mm). ie. if I'm running 1:22.5 scale rolling stock on one-gauge track, it basically represents 3' narrow gauge. However, to represent standard gauge with that same scale, I need to use 3-gauge track with standard gauge equipment. I'm I anywhere in the ballpark with this? 3) I've picked up a copy of the Walthers Big Trains catalog. I'm finding it pretty confusing. They have a whole section called "G-Scale." However, within that I'm finding models in any of the scales above, many models with no scale listed at all and no references to the size of track that they run on. Am I the only one who has this problem? Wouldn't it be more logical if they had sub-categorized the large scale trains by their actual scale? Are there any defaults that I should be using... ie. if I see an add for a 1:22.5 scale train, should I assume it operates on one-gauge track and represents a narrow gauge model? Thanks very much to anyone who can help with any of these questions, [:)] - Dblstack.
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