I didn’t jump on buying the Roundhouse Katie back a year ago. Rather today, I made a purchase of the 7/8″ scale Davenport made by Back to Bay 6 in the UK. I have been following the SE Lounge Forum rather religiously in the last couple of years and have always been impressed by the size and quality of the scale models presented there. Seven Eighths scale (also can be written as 7/8″ scale or 1:13.7 scale) uses 45 mm G gauge to represent 24 inch narrow gauge gauge and so is a very popular scale for people modeling the Maine two-foot railroads (for example, the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes , the Bridgton and Saco River, and the Monson Railroads) and the Welsh slate railways (for example, the Ffestiniog , the Corris, and the Talyllyn Railways).

I don’t have too much invested in 1:20.3 rolling stock at the moment and several people have kitbashed Regner locomotives like my Konrad into 7/8″ scale. Here’s one example done by Chris Bird: