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[quote]QUOTE: HO and OO are the same.....OO is british for HO. [/quote] It's a little different - British OO uses the same track guage as American and European HO, but the scale of the models is 1/76 rather than 1/87. I have seen two reasons given for the difference, both related to British prototypes of the time being smaller than European: 1) the models at 1/87 looked too small/wrong for the track. 2) the models at 1/87 were too small to fit the available motor technology. Now OO is far too entrenched to change. Scott.
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