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About Model Railroading In American OO, 1930-68
At the start of the 1930s, two smaller gauges, HO and American OO, were competing in the model railroading marketplace. Adopting a scale of 1/76 running on 19mm gauge track, American OO models were produced in commercial quantities by firms including Nason Railways, Scale-Craft, and Lionel, with interest in the gauge peaking in 1939. While HO ultimately won the “battle of the gauges,” that did not stop a group of dedicated modelers and manufacturers who continued to produce a wide variety of models in American OO. Model Railroading in American OO, 1930-68 examines every product commercially offered in this scale and gauge, framed by the first and the last magazine advertising for American OO products. This volume also documents the lives and experiences of select “OOldtimers” as well, telling the fascinating story of a forgotten gauge.
