Live steam in O gauge seems to be more common over in the UK. But seldom seen up for sale, even on ebayUK, outside of the old Bassett Lowke Stanier Moguls, which is coarse scale O. Plenty of scratchbuilt fine scale live steam in O though if you surf youtube videos, even coal fired(most are alcohol(meths in the UK) fired). The Corgi/Bassett Lowke Moguls, a reissue made in 2000 with 500 in BR black and 500 in LMS Crimson red, do have fine enough flanges to run on typical 2 rail O scale layouts. But they leave oily water along the track as they run, just like real steam locomotives do. So most with a nice fine scale 2 rail layout would not be happy about that. But they are lots of fun to run, nothing beats the smell of steam and hot oil. AD
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