QUOTE: Originally posted by wjstix Well...sort of. Most early O scale layouts built to true 1:48th scale used outside third rail so that they could use Lionel's scale Hudson and 0-6-0. These were scale layouts, not tinplate or "hi-rail", they handlaid track etc. If you include both 2-railers and outside-third-railers together, then O scale was by far the most popular model railroad scale from the start of scale modelling in the 30's up until somewhere around 1955 or so when HO took over. Since then HO has been consistently by far the most popular. I would guess in about 1980 there were more model railroads in HO scale than in all the other scales combined. G scale and N scale have diversified things in recent years, but HO is still no.1
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Jetrock There are and were some classic 2-rail O scale layouts: the East Bay Model Engineer's Society had a magnificent O scale club layout, featuring both traction and steam/diesel.