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[quote user="hornblower"]True O Scale is 1:48[/quote] Objection, your Honor! True O scale is 1/44.9 or, when Marklin "invented" the scale 1/45. In Germany, O scale still is 1/45, in Britain (and in France, IIRC) it is 1/43.5 and the US it is 1/48 Just take the standard gauge of 1,435mm and divide it by 32mm, the O Scale gauge ... HO and N scale are not much better. The Brits run their trains on HO scale track, but the scale is 1/76. At least they don´t call it HO, but OO. The Japanese call it HO, but the scale is 1/80. N scale is 1/160, but in Britain it is 1/144 and in Japan 1/150 - both are utterly wrong. Japan runs 3 1/2 ft. gauge trains on 9mm track and that equates to 1/118. To be correct, that gauge should be 6.5mm, which is Z gauge ... Confused?
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