The child appears to be one to one, but what scale is the locomotive? A friend sent me this asking me about the loco; the picture is of him as a kid. He thinks it might be Idaho Springs, but if anybody recognizes the location that would be good too. The cribbing kind of looks like the Argo, but not really.

Thanks!

I dunno, but it looks kinda like it would be about 15 inch gauge, or 5 inch scale.

David Maynard said:

I dunno, but it looks kinda like it would be about 15 inch gauge, or 5 inch scale.

Could be Maynard…was thinking 12" gauge myself

Rooster ’ said:

David Maynard said:

I dunno, but it looks kinda like it would be about 15 inch gauge, or 5 inch scale.

Could be Maynard…was thinking 12" gauge myself

I agree…more like 12 inch gauge. Way too small for 15 inch standard gauge. 12 inch gauge was usually for smaller estate size home railroads. 14 and 15 inch gauge were common large estate layouts in the early 1900’s.and even today. The photo shows a standard gauge locomotive on 12 inch gauge or roughly 2.4-2.5 inch scale. BTW, 5 inch scale on 15 inch gauge is considered narrow gauge in the “Grand Scale” sizes. (anything above 7.5 inch gauge). There are quite a few 15 inch gauge NG locomotives running the Bay Area around Berkeley, CA and even those engines are larger than this one.

Either way I wouldn’t want to move that thing ….(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-yell.gif)

Okay, so let me get this straight. We think it’s a 2.5 inch to the foot scale locomotive on a rail that is 12 inches apart?

Do I got that right?

Thanks guys.

Yes… the rail is 192/16ths on center. Now as for the rest of the math it’s on you !

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Actually that kid is 15 feet tall…