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Originally Posted by Mikado463
cool vid, thanks for sharing !
Tom, 'G' Gauge, also known as Garden Gauge, Gauge 1 is larger in scale but I believe the actual track gauge is about the same. The old Standard gauge, tin plate stuff was never about accurate scale, rather toy like.
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Joshua Lionel Cohen was a marketing genius. Instead of making his trains in one of the common gauges of the period. He came out with a new gauge, 2 1/8" and he called it standard gauge. Thus implying that all other gauges were non standard. And by the mid 1920's most electric train manufacturers in America were making trains in his new gauge. And standard gauge trains are grand looking in their bright colors with the nickle and brass trim. Like classic cars of the time. They also take a lot of room to run and they are very heavy. A kid would have a very hard time lifting one of the bigger engines like the 400E. The state set with four cars is around 10 feet long.