Bob, your way off in left field here. Lionel OO, along with Nason, Scale Craft all run on TRUE OO track, of which Hornby, Marklin ect are NOT. Way back before WWII, the Brits adopted OO scale(1:76) running on HO scale track to accomidate the motors of the era in the much smaller UK locomotives(which are much smaller overall in size than the USA locomotives). In the USA we had OO and HO at the same time in the years just before WWII. Obviously HO won the small scale battle and OO faded away after war outside of a few die hards that commited to OO and there are still a few out there. True OO run on track with a 3/4 inch gauge. HO is 5/8ths of an inch in gauge. The Brits kept the OO 1:76th scale on HO track and unless you put a true HO model next to the exact same UK OO model, it blends in nicely with our USA HO scale trains. The loading gauge of UK prototypes is much smaller than the USA. It is confusing, but Lionel OO, along with other vintage brands such as Nason, Scale Craft/Scale Models and others will NOT run on HO track. For those interested in American OO(not to be confused with UK OO), there is an excellent blog that tells all about it, all the companies and what they offered. Its a very interesting read into the very early days of modeling in scales smaller than O in the USA. http://americanoo.blogspot.com...-three-years-of.html
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