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

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

Some things just grow during incremental edits and sometimes get out of hand. The "External links" section, one of the optional appendices, was expanded to 10 entries, which is excessive. Three seems to be an acceptable number, and of course, everyone has their favorite to try to add for a fourth. Consensus needs to determine this. A tag indicates concerns.

However, none is needed for article promotion.

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Moved links:

• G-Scale Society
• Garden Trains
• Garden Railways magazine
• History of G gauge & other gauges (N, Z, OO, etc.)
• myLargescale.com G Scale online community
• G Scale News
• The World of LGB
• Garden Chuffers -- Otr500 (talk) 22:45, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

The current title is ambiguous. It would make more sense to rename G scale model trains. -- Otr500 (talk) 22:51, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

It appears that the term "G gauge" unambiguously refers to the subject of this article and is more WP:CONCISE. CoronalMassAffection (talk) 03:23, 11 July 2025 (UTC)Reply