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[quote user="wjstix"]If the question is "why doesn't MR do more articles on O scale?" then I think the answer is best shown in the recent (can't remember the month now, May or June?) issue of the NMRA Bulletin regarding O scale/gauge.[/quote] MR is not the NMRA, Apples to six or seven Cadillac dealerships. Its in the May 2018 NMRA Magazine, the email is called the eBulletin...spent 30min reading through emails before I figured out where to look. [quote user="wjstix"]I wouldn't be surprised now if the majority of 'O Scale' 1:48 layouts in the US aren't high-rail layouts. [/quote] I would be.  Exactly zero Hi-Rail layouts are Oscale.  They are Hi-Rail layouts.  The track is not scale, it cannot possibly be because the flanges are not scale.  The couplers are generally not scale (claws or Kadee's, as the only option for scale couplers at the moment are about $54 a pair, and most people dont spend money on that if they are into 3rail, from my experience). Im a 3-rail Hi-Rail modeler, but I didnt take offense to Mr. Getz's article, which btw also stated there was a 3-rail MMR.  He did state that the NMRA was focused on scale modeling, and was not interested in duplicating the efforts of other groups that focused on "tinplate" (his words, I just read that as 3rail).  LCCA and TCA both adequately cover O 3rail.   There are "highrail standards in the NMRA standards", I dont know if anyone uses these or not.  Mr. Getz did lump all 3-rail into one term "tinplate" which is arguably not that accurate.  I wouldnt really call anything other than tinplate "tinplate".  Tinplate is actually a different thing entirely. But I wouldn't expect a guy who has spent his life modeling other than O and reads CTT to understand the nuances of O section of the hobby.  Nor would most scale modelers care.  Why, its not fully scale modeling, and you can only show someone so many pictures of the NYC track pan guard rails (the ones that prevent a scoop lowered too early from smashing into the end of the track pan and causing a derailment) before they call you on there isnt really a prototype for that.  But its fun trying. If I win the lottery, I am building a 12" to the foot scale railroad with three rails and a giant roller underneath...for fun, also so that I can point to it and justfy it to scale modelers.... To the toys point.  Aren't all of these technically toys?   Oh and this thread from CTT provides some interesting viewpoints: <a>[url]http://cs.trains.com/ctt/f/95/t/270263.aspx[/url]</a>
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