On a separate note the scale of the European style MTH is true O scale.
In US terms it would be 17/64" scale which puts the rails at 4'-8 1/2" apart as opposed to 1/4" scale which has the rails at 5' apart. Talk to a Proto-48 modeler about modeling O at 1/4" That's a hardy group of modelers.
Don't want to stray too far off the subject here though. Someday an ALP46 would be nice for my NJT collection.