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For we'uns its fifty-six and a half inches; for you'uns its one meter, forty-three and a half centimetrs.<BR><BR>For we'uns HO-Gauge is sixteen and one half millimeters; for you'uns HO-Gauge is sixteen and one half millimeters - isn't that absolutely amazing.  Keep one thing in mind, however; gauge is not measured from the inside of one rail to the inside of the other rail; it is measured from the inside of one rail to the OUTSIDE of the other rail.  More accurately - but this gets a little hard to measure - its from the center of one rail to the center of the opposite rail.  That's because of the thickness of the top of the rail whatever its called.  PICKY! PICKY! PICKY!<BR><BR>This 16.5 mm works out to .650 inches, a figure often quoted as the track gauge; that works out to 39/60ths of an inch.  This can be measured with an architects scale but I can tell you where you are going to wind up if you try to do it that way; try for outside privileges on Saturdays so you can go train watching.  However you cut it 16.5 mm and/or .650 inches are nerve-racking measurements to say the least; this is why Kadee and Micro Engineering make track gauges in HO and Micro Engineering makes a track gauge in N.  Kadee/Micro-Trains - old habits die hard - includes a coupler height/track gauge in their coupler starter kit.
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