Quote from: atlanticcentral on March 22, 2007, 08:53:51 AM

Do you personally know anyone in that scale? Ask them what scale/guage they model in. 99.9% of them will say "On30" not "On2-1/2". Every manufacturer who makes it calls it On30. I am personal friends with a number of noted and published modelers in that scale. They all call it On30 and share this same complaint about MR.

I don't really care what they call them.

Model railroader has been publishing articles using the nFOOT nomenclature at least since the early 1970s, which is a far as my collection goes back to, maybe earlier.

As for people currently using nINCHS, there will always be inadequately educated people who don't know the proper term making up some half assed description because they don't know any better.

Just watch news people talking about tanks when standing in front of self propelled artillery pieces.

Quote from: atlanticcentral on March 22, 2007, 08:53:51 AM

Who died and left Model Railroader in charge of "correcting" a whole segment of the hobby?

Since they first defined the term they obviously get to. That's how things work in the real world.

I don't agree.

O scale models using HO track  to represent narrow gauge has always been called On2-1/2 in MR.  MR has always used the foot nomenclature for narrow gauge, not inches.

They're not renaming anything.

Quote from: atlanticcentral on March 05, 2007, 01:59:04 PM


But it seems now more than ever they have lots of agenda's but no real direction. They have latched onto some supposed trends and tried to make them gospel, or they jump into niche areas with no respect for established conventions in those groups. Some examples:


Trying to "rename" On30 to On2-1/2.