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@rtr12 posted:
Craftech and rplst8, I'd be happy to add your suggestions (OW5, TOOG, and IPA), but I don't know what they mean? (Hey, the guy editing this list doesn't know all of these things... he still has to look up stuff here too!)

I’m actually not positive on TOOG but I saw it a few weeks back on here. One person said “There’s Only O Gauge”. Another said “The Other O Gauge” referring to the early days of MTH and the Lionel-MTH rivalry.

OW5 or Ow5 I’ve seen as O Wide 5’ (or O Wrong 5’ in jest) for our 1 1/4” outer rail spacing which actually represents 5 feet in 1:1. I think this follows the format of On3 or HOn3 where the first part is the modeling scale, the second char (n or w) sets it relative to the standard gauge 4’ 8 1/2” prototype, and the ending numbers either feet or inches represented at 1:1 life sized.

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