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    Stop the 8 Wide Insanity! —John Neal
   Okay, I am going to cease and desist on the topic of 8 wide, maybe forever, if all you naysayers would just consider this: -8 wide is no different in scale than 6 wide-- same minifig, same track. -8 wide is plain and simply 6 wide plus a row of 1xs (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Stop the 8 Wide Insanity! —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Correction, 8 wide is the same gauge but either represents stock proportionally larger to the gauge or is a different "scale". However there is no "LEGO scale" so your assertion is technically of null semantic content. But, as this imprecision (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Stop the 8 Wide Insanity! —John Neal
    (...) I would argue that they are the same scale, based on the minifig. It's just that 6 wide is compressed widthwise, which is different than it being a different scale. (...) I stand corrected:-) (...) I never said I was trying to lobby TLC-- (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
 

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