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When HO scale is said to be 1:87, that is for a linear dimension. Weight is loosely related to volume which is a cubic dimension. I agree with Dave's method. <br /> <br />BTW, going in the opposite direction, this is why the old movies like where a giant spider comes along could not be. If the giant spider was, say, 100 times as wide as a real spider, its volume would be 1,000,000 times as big (and so would its weight). If its legs were scaled in the same proportion as a real spider, the giant's legs would not be strong enough to hold it up. <br /> <br />I always had assumed that a hopper, for example, that was said to be a "100 ton" hopper, it meant that it could carry 100 tons of material. But I could be wrong (and it wouldn't be the first time).
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