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What is the difference between Scale and Guage in model railroading?

By stanford - Posted on 23 April 2008

Scale refers the the size of the model in relation to the size of the real thing. For example, a model that is to the scale 1:87 is 1/87th the size of the real thing.

Gauge, on the other hand, refers solely to the distance between the rails.

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