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Also in 2007 Lionel started to sell American Flyer track, the popular 19" radius curve remaining unavailable to this day. In 2008, Lionel released an American Flyer Big Boy with TMCC and Railsounds. The license to manufacture the track had been held by Maury Klein, whose K-Line brand of 0 gauge trains competed against Lionel in the toy train ...
This scale is also popular in North America to depict 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge prototypes (using dedicated 14.28 mm (0.562 in) gauge track and known as "Sn3"), and elsewhere to depict the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow-gauge railways (using H0 scale 16.5 mm / 0.65 in gauge track and known as "Sn3 1 ⁄ 2") of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Before the Maxim joint venture, Lionel had partnered with Learning Curve to create the "Great Railways Adventures" series of battery-powered trains that were compatible with Brio-style trains and track. A specialized plastic track that snapped together was used in place of the traditional peg-and-hole system, although adaptors were sold with sets.
Using 32 mm (1.26 in) - 0 gauge - track, there is an extensive range of 16 mm to the foot scale [1:19] live-steam and other types of locomotives, rolling stock and accessories. Many of these models are dual gauge, and can be converted to run on 45 mm ( 1.772 in ) track ( gauge 1 ), and radio control is common.
OO gauge was quickly eclipsed by the better-proportioned HO scale. The Lionel range of OO used 19 mm (3 ⁄ 4 inch) track gauge, equating to 57 inches or 4 ft 9 in – very close to the 4 ft 8 1 ⁄ 2 in of standard gauge. There is a small following of American OO scale today.
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O scale (or O gauge) is a scale commonly used for toy trains and rail transport modelling.Introduced by German toy manufacturer Märklin around 1900, by the 1930s three-rail alternating current O gauge was the most common model railroad scale in the United States and remained so until the early 1960s.
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