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Good article.
What he did not cover is that Lionel produced three distinct sizes of car
to run on O gauge. Only one of them scale 1:48. As he mentioned,
Lionel and other manufacturers, accommodated the need to be less expensive
and to be able to turn on the corners most people would have room for by making
units less than scale, ) 027 and traditional sizes with Std. O as their
scale version. As they shortened the length of a car they also shortened
the width and height to keep the same proportions as the prototype.
So a Std. O 40; box car is 10" long for the box. A traditional
version is about 10" from the ends of the couplers ( not the box) and 027
is only about 9" on the couplers.
The widths are also impacted as stated above. If gauge in the
prototype is only 56.5" but the train car can carry real automobiles, then the
cars are much wider than the trucks of the wheels. Same as in Std. O, the
scale version. On traditional, the cars are usually about he width of the
truck and for 027, the trucks are wider than the box on top.
Scott
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:38:46 -0500 "Michael Graziano" <mgraziano@austin.rr.com>
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