Talk:G scale

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This article is confusing, misleading, I think mistaken, and seems to show bias. Seriously, I don't need a lecture on the puritanical. I don't need to hear about all of the misnomers in sacrifice of the facts. This article fails to answer the question it is titled for, "What is G-Scale?". Gauge 1? No - that is not G-scale! What is G-Scale?

Maybe someone with more expertise than I can answer the question, "What is G-scale", and leave the "what g-scale is not" to caveats after the fact.

And it is important. The subject of G-scale alone represent close to 100 million in Mag circulation and product in the US - much less the UK.

I was here looking for historical fact, current fact and reference. I got none. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.173.128.75 (talk) 05:53, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What about indoor use?[edit]

Why does this article make no mention at all of the fact that G-gauge track is also used indoors with trains run against the wall near ceiling height? Is it because no one does that in the UK? (I smell a British-centric bias in the model rail articles.) JustinTime55 (talk) 20:42, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The article's omission of "trains around the ceiling" may just be an oversight (unlikely, I think, a deliberate one). But it may also be because trains-around-the-ceiling is something you can do with any scale, and therefore not a particularly defining trait of G. See, for example, ceilingtrainkit.com: "...run G Large Scale, Standard, O, On30, HO trains." Or this (UK!) Pinterest board with photos of trains-around-the-ceiling in various scales. Even Lego fans do it. Unless there's a reliable source out there saying that most trains-around-the-ceiling are G scale, I think we need not include this in the first sentence. PRRfan (talk) 16:13, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]