Ok this is the last time were gonna say it!

[BR60103]

I call it OnHO, to go with HOnN. [:D]

[Anonymous]

Be strong, Swampthing, it's never easy to fight for the nomenclature of your choice.
Years ago, I used to dabble in H0n36, but everyone else in the hobby insisted on calling it HOn3, so I dropped out of it.[;)][:D]

Way back in time, the origin of "O" was not a letter, it was a number, and it was not a scale, it was a gauge..."0" was the next size down from #1 gauge, and was expressed as "ought". This was across the pond, and "ought gauge" used a scale of 7mm.
However, in the USA, the number 0 was usually expressed as "zero", and in many cases, ( especially for telephone numbers )as "oh"...from whence the letter came to be substituted for the number.
The scales used over here for O gauge have varied a lot as well, not at all limited to the rather incorrect scale for the gauge, of 1/48.

So the main thing is to enjoy your scale and gauge, even if some dinosaur like me might call it 1/4 n 2 1/2, ( but only in jest, or a moment of weakness ).[8D]
regards \ Mike

[Anonymous]

Be strong, Swampthing, it's never easy to fight for the nomenclature of your choice.
Years ago, I used to dabble in H0n36, but everyone else in the hobby insisted on calling it HOn3, so I dropped out of it.[;)][:D]

Way back in time, the origin of "O" was not a letter, it was a number, and it was not a scale, it was a gauge..."0" was the next size down from #1 gauge, and was expressed as "ought". This was across the pond, and "ought gauge" used a scale of 7mm.
However, in the USA, the number 0 was usually expressed as "zero", and in many cases, ( especially for telephone numbers )as "oh"...from whence the letter came to be substituted for the number.
The scales used over here for O gauge have varied a lot as well, not at all limited to the rather incorrect scale for the gauge, of 1/48.

So the main thing is to enjoy your scale and gauge, even if some dinosaur like me might call it 1/4 n 2 1/2, ( but only in jest, or a moment of weakness ).[8D]
regards \ Mike

[Anonymous]

Its called On30! Not On 2-1/2.

Now that were getting a new 2-8-0 from Broadway Limited as well as other nifty locos and rolling stock coming down the pike I feel the time has come to call you guys (at MR) out and get our chosen scale the proper name it deserves. Its called On30. See...that didn't hurt one bit. Did it?

Trust me you don't want the rest of On30 Conspiracy coming over here and hanging around looking for trouble...[}:)]

Remember On30 is funner...[:D]

Thanks for a great magazine,
Swampthing

"Did you ever feel like the whole world is a black tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?"
George Gobel

[Anonymous]

Its called On30! Not On 2-1/2.

Now that were getting a new 2-8-0 from Broadway Limited as well as other nifty locos and rolling stock coming down the pike I feel the time has come to call you guys (at MR) out and get our chosen scale the proper name it deserves. Its called On30. See...that didn't hurt one bit. Did it?

Trust me you don't want the rest of On30 Conspiracy coming over here and hanging around looking for trouble...[}:)]

Remember On30 is funner...[:D]

Thanks for a great magazine,
Swampthing

"Did you ever feel like the whole world is a black tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?"
George Gobel