Well, when you go through old magazines and see the prototypes offered in HO in
the 1950's, and then realize that many of those have never shown up in O three
rail, if numbers are increasing with the population, the census of participants must be going up in other scales, because we get cancellations, so the numbers in this gauge/scale must be going nowhere or down. Certainly it has seemed like O two rail must be shrinking, for I have watched shops that dealt in O scale material close or convert to three rail or HO/N, and it has become much harder to find anything useful to modelers in 1/4 inch.
