OO Gauge Across the Pond > ScotRail from the Scottish Highlands to the Appalachians

The train looks great running on the club layout, Kevin.  Am I right in thinking the OO scale train is running on an HO layout.

UK OO should probably be called OOnsomething as it does run on HO track which is somewhat narrower than true OO track. I'll leave it to the mathematical wizards to figure out exactly what it should be!

I have a Hornby OO 1934 "Brighton Belle":

I think that it would look good up there in Appalachia.

@Mark Boyce posted:

The train looks great running on the club layout, Kevin.  Am I right in thinking the OO scale train is running on an HO layout.

Yup Mark.

The Brits OO shares the same gauge track as HO in the rest of the world. Where the difference lies in the scale size of rolling stock, structures, vehicles etc.

OO is 1:76 to HO's 1:87.1

Funny how scales differ around the world. For us, O is 1:48, for the UK it's 1:43. N Scale is even more fun with 1:148 (UK), 1:150 (Japan), and 1:160 (US), all using the same gauge track regardless of scale.😄

Thank you, Dave, Kevin!  
I knew OO was 1:76 but didn’t know it shared the same track gauge as HO.  Now I know why so many vehicles are 1:43.  I did not know that N track has different scales in different countries.

Brighton Belle looks great, Dave!

Correct its too narrow. Some UK modelers use EM which is 18.2 mm gauge. Similar in spirit to proto 48 modelers in the US. It came about because there were no motors small enough to fit in UK outline locos that tend to be much smaller the in the US.