What scale is the Monorail

An eight inch car would be a thirty-foot car in 1:48.

I tend to think they are a bit small for Std Gauge, closer to O, but then tinplate and toy are oblivious to scale fidelity. Just go with cool looking

Steve

What scale is monorail?

A - Monoscale  ( sorry I couldn't resist )

They weren't...real. That is, no hanging monorail existed in Detroit.

  There was a huge number of trolleys before GM bought and then "sabotaged" the infrastructure of public transit here.

 The Detroit Monorail System, is a late 20th century creation, and rides on top of the track, and only serves as a shuttle for the Downtown business district. 

 I've had my eyes peeled for an original Leyland since I was about 8. I've only seen one, & that was then.

So measure a door (common "close enough" measurement), do some math, and let us know what you come up with.

As Adriatic says, there is no scale as such because there is no prototype. As far as compatibility goes, IMHO it's a bit better with 0 but it works fine with Standard Gauge as well. We have one in our Standard Gauge layout at the toy train museum and it's a very popular attraction. Looks fine where it is. We have 0 gauge on an upper level and we are working on a redesign where the 0 gauge track would be extended a few feet to where the monorail is and we'd have an elevated transfer station so passengers could transfer between the monorail and 0 gauge passenger trains. 

The prototype could be the Wuppertal Monorail in Germany. The cars and rail look very similar.

To me this toy looks much closer to O-Gauge than Standard gauge.

i don't have this set, but i did find this picture online...

i gather from a few responses that these cars are 8" long.

measuring the doorway height, i get ~1.25".

this would be a standard 80" door in 1:64, 3/16" scale.

in S scale, these would be 42' length.

cheers...gary

Jim,

You are in a elite group of individuals. You had no idea that your honest question would invoke so much thought. Speaking for myself, I've never given any thought about what scale it is supposed to represent. I like most in the distant fringe of the toy train hobby have always considered it,"nO-Gauge". Tinplate trains be they Std. or O-Gauge are toys. You will find all shapes and sizes. Anyone wanting know how large the prototype for the 400E, 408E, 33 or #7 would be? The same holds true for the many different sizes of tinplate in O-Gauge. Gary"overlandflyer" did a good job figuring out that the monorail would be closer to 3/16 scale.

Jim, I commend you for raising so much interest in this seldom seen rarity in modern tinplate, Thank you!

How do you arrive at that?

1/4" =1 foot

8 inches = 32 feet

No scale folk around to witness this phenomenon? What a shame()

I don't "care", but it is very interesting. Seems like scale comparison is more important to folks than it has been in the past, so being able to answer? Bonus trivia points! 

(sorry I used up my Artie Johnson link quota for the year yesterday.)

I run tin next to PW.

Then again, I don't mix my 6" & 7" cars much in one train either

I think the resemblance to Wuppertal is a stretch. The general shape is similar to the newer version of the Wuppertal cars, but not that close. I agree that the size is closer to 0 than Standard, but it's a toy environment so it doesn't bother me that it's somewhat out of proportion.