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Hi guys, Reading Ians 'low point' just now so I thought that it would be a good time to get this hot potato out of the oven. What is scale? I firmly believe in the 'if it looks right then it must be right' school of railways but I do think that the manufacturers con us with their offerings. I currently have in my stable goods and passenger from Bachmann/USA,/Aristo and loco's from Bachmann/USA + a scratch built based on an LGB mallet chassis. The Bachmann Connie I can believe is 1:20.3 but no way the Jackson Sharp coaches. The centre cupola caboose looks 1:20.3 but not the gondola, which matches quite well with the Aristo gon based plough. The USA pipe flat looks bigger than most other things on the railway whilst the USA work series engineers car is the same width as everything else, but slightly larger than the Bachmann box car which is supposed to be 1:20.3! The LGB drovers caboose looks quite at home with everything else that's there so who's conning who? Whilst we're at it, USA - PUT METAL WHEELS ON YER WAGONS!!![soapbox][banghead] That feels better, Cheers, Kim [tup] And whilst I'm having a good old moan, that there USA pipe flat is a super bit of kit except they must have run out of pipe and had to go down to the nearest DIY shop to buy some. The pipe has a full bar code printed on it together with all the descriptive writing that goes with it, size, for drinking water etc etc. The pipe has been glued into a position so that all of this is visible, easily painted out but a darn nuisance. Now that definately feels better...............did I mention METAL WHEELS?!!!!
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