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1:48 scale is popular among modelers both as diecast models, plastic models and construction toys. It is especially famous with producers of scale model airplanes and model railways (where it is known as O scale). 1:48 is also the most popular scale with Lego scale modelers since it is almost the scale of the minifig (1.5 inches: 6 feet).
It is similar in dimension to 1:50 scale and 1:43 scale which are very common for diecast vehicles.
Many producers produce die-cast models of trucks, buses, cars, construction equipment and other vehicles in scales compatible with or similar to 0 scale model railways. These are available in 1:50 scale, 1:48 scale and 1:43 scale. Manufacturers include Conrad, NZG, Corgi, TWH Collectibles and many others. These are popular with collectors and easy to find.
Recently, Tamiya has started to produce a line of military trucks scale models in 1:48 in addition to their more famous 1:35 scale series. This has been seen as an try to step into a bigger market since the stiff competition in the more bigger scale. This is the famous scale for Admiralty Board style models and Shipyard builders scale models.
It is popular with producers of model railroads.
The biggest makers of U.S. 0 gauge model trains today are Lionel, MTH Electric Trains, LLC, Atlas O, and Weaver Models.
In the U.S., producers such as the American Flyer,Lionel and Ives used O scale for their budget line, marketing either Gauge I or Wide scale (also known as standard gauge) as their premium model trains.
The Great Depression wiped out the questioning for the expensive bigger trains, and by 1932, 0 scale was the standard, almost by default. Because of the emphasis on play value, the gauge of pre WW II O scale trains varied. After World War II, manufacturers started paying more attention to gauge, and post-war locos and rolling stock tend to be larger and more detailed than their earlier counterparts.
Since the early 1990s, O scale producers have begun placing more emphasis on details, and the gauge has experienced a resurgence in popularity, although it remains less hamous than N and H0 gauge. However, newer companies including MTH Electric Trains, Lionel, LLC, Atlas O, and Weaver are making very exact 1:48 scale model railways.
0 scale beginnings up until the mid-1970s, the various manufacturers trackside items would interoperate with one another, but the model train cars themselves used couplers of differing designs, often making it difficult or impossible to use different producers cars together. The post War consolidation did little to improve matters. Marx used three different standards depending on the product line. Lionel used 2, so frequently the companies’ own entry-level stock were incompatible with their high-price trains , let alone with the competition. Collectors who wanted differing standards to interoperate had to resort to replacing couplers.
Between 1946 and 1976, the primary U.S. manufacturers of O gauge model trains were Lionel and Marx, with American Flyer switching to the more-realistic S scale and the rest of the producers out of business.
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with a lot of context about o scale Info Model Railway – Railway modelling (UK, Australia, Ireland and Canada) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are built at a reduced scale. The scale layouts include locomotives, rolling stock, vehicles, tracks, signalling, highways, buildings, o gauge, lights and features such as streams, hills and canyons.
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