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Reply to "What goes best with Dept 56 buildings - Tradition size O or S gauge."

It depends which village you collect.  Snow Village is very close to traditional  O and  O-27 postwar trains. To my eye it looks a little small for O scale.   New England village is a bit smaller than Snow Village and looks good with O,  O-27 as well as  Flyer and S scale.  The problem with all of the Dept56 buildings is the doors are more often than not out of proportion to the rest of the building.  Dickens village is very nearly the same scale as New England village and I have a  mixture of both.  Many of the multi story buildings in both these collections look to be a smaller scale than the single story houses and shops. My daughter has a massive Snow Village collection I started buying it for her in 1985 when she was six.  My favorite D56 village is Seasons Bay which represents a New England seaside resort. Some of these buildings are what I think  somewhere between O gauge postwar and O scale. They are some of the rarest of the D56 buildings.  However some are always on eBay.   By the way I have a massive collection of D56 and am seriously thinking about selling all of it.  Perhaps I will list it all here on the forum.                           j

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