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It all depends on what YOU want to do. The true model railroader will yell and spit at you for using Matchbox cars on an HO layout. But if you don't mind that they're bigger, who cares. If you're planning on one day having a quality HO scale layout, keep your buildings in 1:87 scale, you can always replace the cars later. If you like the size of the matchbox cars (remember that they aren't all 1:64, they're close but whatever size allows them to fit the packaging), then you might want to look into S scale trains. They're 1:64 scale trains. <br />Just to let you know... Model Power makes some nice modern HO scale cars for like $3 or so. About the same price as Matchbox but I guess they don't have that "kewl" look to them.
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