Reply to "Scale, Semi Scale, Not Scale.....?"

@raising4daughters posted:

In the end, it's a shame that the original toy train makers (Lionel, Marx) didn't adopt a scale size of, say, 1:56 - 1:58, back in the PW era. I recall that K-Line marketed its Titan series as 1:58 scale.

That's because much of the PW era is "selectively compressed" or "selectively expanded" (like the 44 tonner) and not to the same fixed scale in any of the three dimensions.  The Postwar Lionel engineers were really masters of this trade.

Rusty