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Reply to "Is the Railking crane car scale?"

Rusty Traque posted:
SIRT posted:

MTH RailKing items are compressed.

If we really want to get down and dirty into the weeds, anything with deep flanges and third rail operation can't be considered as "scale."

Rusty

Amen. 

    Back in the early 80s when Williams was coming out with their line of brass locos most dealers referred to them as semi-scale. Basically anything of scale proportions modified to run on three rail and sporting lobster claw couplers. Then along comes Maury Klein calling O-27 size trains "semi-scale which in a purely legal sense may be correct but from then on you had to clearly define what you meant by semi-scale. Thus calling for a new term,  "3Rail Scale".  I like to refer to 0-27 trains as " Toy Scale".    I would even be OK with calling them "O-27 Scale" Getting MTH and Lionel to go along is the key.   I think if there is an organization who could pull this off it is the TCA.  I would like to see them publish a glossary of terms that manufacturers and dealers selling at TCA meets had to subscribe to. MTH in at least some of their catalogs uses the term "Near Scale" I take this to mean 1/4" proportions but missing a little fine detail. Some of these Near Scale locos are very nice and I would not hesitate to mix them with Semi Scale/3Rail Scale. Would prefer the term Semi Scale restored to it's original 1980 meaning to 3Rail Scale as Semi Scale is easier to type.          j

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