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British OO scale is 1:76 ratio as opposed to HO which is 1:87 .Most proprietary brand products are designed to use the same 16.5mm track as HO modellers which is strictly speaking too narrow for OO scale. <br />The OO steam locomotives do not look too out of scale beside a USA steamer as the loading gauges are much smaller in the UK due to the original 19th century planners over there (hence the problem for early modellers trying to fit the bulky model electric motors into their smaller width locos). <br /> However the coaches do look a bit odd as the windows appear much larger than their USA equivalent even though the carriages may appear to be the same height above the rails as HO scale ones. <br />I model both HO and OO. I just keep the two scales visually apart when running! <br />Anything goes on my layout . . . Fun comes first! [:)]
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