ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) (02/11/84)
Tom Gloger (tty3b!tag) mentions among other scales: HO 1:87.1 OO 1:72 Popular in England and Evanston, Illinois. Remember that the overall size or "loading gauge" of English trains is smaller than American. I have read that the scales HO and OO arose so that English trains modeled to OO scale would be the same size as American trains modeled to HO, but they use the same size tracks so that one of them (HO, I think) is not truly to scale. Incidentally, OO is etymologically 00, i.e. the next size below O (0) which was the next size below 1. These people hadn't heard of negative numbers. HO is "half 0", but if Tom's figures are accurate, the name isn't. TT is for "table top", and I don't know any of the others. Now, how about some postings about REAL railways in this group? Mark Brader