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2. Standard Gauge (toy trains) - Wikipedia

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   Standard Gauge, also known as wide gauge, was an early model railway and toy train rail gauge, introduced in the United States in 1906 by Lionel Corporation. [1] As it was a toy standard, rather than a scale modeling standard, the actual scale of Standard Gauge locomotives and rolling stock varied.

3. Lionel Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Lionel resumed producing toy trains in late 1945, replacing their original product line with less colorful, but more realistic, trains and concentrating exclusively on O-gauge trains. Many of Lionel's steam locomotives of this period, had a new feature: smoke, produced by dropping a small tablet or a special oil into the locomotive's smokestack ...

4. High rail - Wikipedia

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   High rails on a model railway layout at the Convention of American Railroadfans in Switzerland, 2006. High rail (also called "hi-rail" and "hirail") is a phrase used in model railroading in North America, mostly in O scale and S scale, to describe a "compromise" form of modelling that strives for realism while accepting the compromises in scale associated with toy train equipment.

5. List of track gauges - Wikipedia

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   See Category:Standard gauge railways: Standard gauge is defined both in metric and in imperial units. It is also the best-known gauge worldwide; 55% of the world uses this track. In 2020, China’s rail network is standard gauge, with around 79,685 km (49,514 mi) of line. [92] 1,440 mm 4 ft 8 + 11 ⁄ 16 in: Switzerland

6. List of rail transport modelling scale standards - Wikipedia

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   The most popular scale in Japan. For models of Shinkansen high speed trains and other systems using standard gauge track, the international N scale standard ratio of 1:160 is commonly used. TT9: 1:120: 9 mm (0.354 in) Used also in New Zealand. HOn 2 + 1 ⁄ 2: 1:87: 9 mm (0.354 in) Used for 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge. 13 mm: 1:80: 13 mm (0 ...

7. O scale - Wikipedia

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   Various sizes of track gauge exist around the world and the normal O gauge track represents the Standard gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). "O gauge" refers to tracks that are nominal 32 mm (1.26 in) according to older standards of NMRA, current standards of BRMSB and NEM. 1.25 in (31.75 mm) apart current standards of NMRA. [1]