After seeing these showroom State Cars sitting on standard gauge track, they actually take on a scale realism. Passenger cars are always considerably wider than the rails upon which the ride. I grew up with my dad's William's reproduction state sets, both green and brown. They are big, but they are not scale proportioned to the rail gauge, these showroom cars look to be close, very close. Same goes for the Brute. In real life I look at some locomotives, especially D&RG narrow gauge and wander why that locomotive doesn't just tip over. I think the Brute rides very well on standard gauge track as does the showroom state cars. The standard gauge world have for decades acclimated to toy sized trains which in and of themselves are very large, but now a scale or near scale set has been produced and it truly is a monster. Even the Super 381, though it is still under sized model, it is impressive to watch.
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