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The encyclopedia Americana

by Grolier Incorporated

O scale, the largest popular model train size, provides a realistic ... saw what a dramatic difference there was between scale trains running through a ...

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The Encyclopedia Americana

O scale, the largest popular model train size, provides a realistic ... saw what a dramatic difference there was between scale trains running through a ...

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Encyclopedia Americana

MODELING SIZES There is a broad gray area between toy trains and scale models. ... But О scale's size is also its biggest disadvantage. Most O-scale ...

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Toy Train Collecting and Operating

by John Grams

Looking from left to right, you can see G, Standard, O, S, and HO gauges. ... These LGB trains were scale models with excellent detail, but they looked more ...

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Basic Model Railroading

by Kent J. Johnson

The marketing thought behind American Flyer was that the 1: scale products would be truer to real trains than O gauge toys, yet not be too small to ...

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Ho Scale Model Railroading

by Jeff Wilson

Gauge is the distance between the rails. Thus, a structure can't be HO gauge, but it can be HO scale. The initials HO come from "half O," since HO scale is ...

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The modeler's manual

by Robert H. Schleicher

... plastic aircraft kits 1/64 V\k inch = 1 foot S scale trains S scale ship kits 1/48 lA inch = 1 foot O scale trains O scale ship kits plastic aircraft, ...

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Magazines for Libraries

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The Big Book of Lionel

by Robert H. Schleicher

Why Lionel elected to name their exact-proportion O scale trains "Standard O" has been lost in the Lionel lore of the past four decades. ...

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Easy Model Railroad Wiring

by Andy Sperandeo

Steel has been used for O scale rail for many years, and the weight of standard gauge O scale trains means that many potential contact problems just never ...

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The crafts supply sourcebook

by Margaret Ann Boyd

O Scale Pola HO and N scale building kits (block of buildings, ... MA 02157 Offers: N scale model trains with New England road names (custom-painted). ...

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Library journal

Antique toy trains did not follow exact scales, but the popular Lionel products are roughly O scale, with their earlier Standard Gauge roughly twice the ...

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Maintaining & Repairing Your Scale Model Trains

by Jim Volhard

This type of modeling is called "fine scale. ... in HO scale and the Proto:48 modelers in O scale who use virtually scale wheels, including flanges. ...

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The World Book encyclopedia

by World Book

N scale models run on N gauge tracks that are 9 millimeters, or about { inch wide. Most toy trains are built in O scale, which is -fa the size of the ...

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Encyclopedia Americana

by Scholastic Library Publishing

O's size also makes maintenance easier, and O-scale engines seldom have ... a good scale for representing big-time, modern railroading with long trains and ...

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Timeless toys

by Tim Walsh

In reaction, Lionel produced a line of smaller HO ("Half O") scale trains in 1957, which Lionel's competition had been producing with great success for ...

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Walthers O Scale Catalog and Craft Train Reference Manual

by Wm. K. Walthers Inc. Staff More info

The big book of model railroad track plans

by Robert Schleicher

Faller sells European prototype models (through Walthers and Model Power) to operate on O scale track; Faller calls it 1/32e (the, "e" meaning European ...

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International government information and country information

by Andrea Marie Morrison

Antique toy trains did not follow exact scales, but the popular Lionel products are roughly O scale, with their earlier Standard Gauge roughly twice the ...

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Model railroad resources

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