Why are O Scale products so hard to find?
The overall market for O Scale is very small compared to HO or N Scale. In addition, many of the product manufacturers are small time operations; literally someone who is working from their garage or basement in many cases. Due to the niche aspects of the O Scale marketplace, the production runs are often very limited in quantity and once an item is sold out it’s often considered to be gone forever. This is why many O Scale modelers tend to be pack rats in nature. Go back to the Index What is P48 all about? P48 represents prototype modeling standards where the wheel and flange profiles are direct reductions from the AAR prototype standards. P48 also correctly models the track gauge of 4′ 8-1/2″ instead of the more commonly available wide gauge of 5′ which we refer to as Standard O or 1-1/4″ gauge. People working in P48 do so because they want to faithfully model a given prototype car or locomotive as accurately as possible. Most, but certainly not all, P48 modelers model the Transition
