Quite a bit of railroad china is the Econo Rim shape by Syracuse China. EconoRim has a narrower rim which allowed the train dining services to place more food into the plate while using up less room. I think this was all part of the master plan to squeeze all of us into ever narrower spaces. If you really want to see small and lightweight plates, check out Airline china. Personally can't stand the stuff. It is the antithesis of what I love about commercial china. It is lightweight and tiny to help save space and weight on aircrafts.It is just not fun (to me) to make a big 3 egg omelettte and French Toast and then try to spoon it into either a matchbox sized airline dinner plate or one of these tiny EconoRim plates. But then again, I see the logic in not flying around in an airplane loaded down with 4 pound dinner plates. Don' get me wrong about Econo Rim, I actually like it very much. I hate flying, airline food and airline china is all. Yes, the Little Spoon can be Little Grumpy Spoon sometimes. I don't collect Airline china for the same reasons I don't buy Precious Moments or reissued Roseville. I simply don't like it (this coming from a man with an extensive collection of Black Velvet paintings from Tijuana, Mexico).