I think we need to remember two things here. First... When the original Standard Gauge stuff was being built... Lionel, Flyer, & Ives were competing for sales in the "Toy Train" market place. As such, they took liberties using selective compression of the real world locomotives, to make them fit on Standard gauge track. What counted was making them "Look Right" to prospective customers walking in to their local hobby store, hardware store, general store, Etc. Secondly... Since a good number of today's Standard Gauge products are based on previously existing items ( Hence people using terms like reproduction, tribute, or re-release ) I'm not certain there's much incentive for today's Standard Gauge train makers to make "True Scale" items available. Oh yes, they may be making improvements in the area of creating a more "Scale Like Appearance" for the trains they offer. But a real effort to establish a scale presence in today's Standard Gauge would have to be driven by the market. And sadly, I doubt there's enough of a market for that stuff to warrant such an investment. So for now, the manufacturers will probably leave things the way they are. Which in the case of Standard Gauge Scale, just happens to be a grey area.
|
|
