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Post by clubcar on Aug 16, 2024 12:41:46 GMT -8
Hi,
are Brits ever going to have true 1:76 OO scale trucks (bogies), and axles riding on true 1:76 gauge track ? I know if I were a Brit I'd always feel slightly jipped in that my 1:76 trains had to run on 1:87 gauge HO track; that I'm technically running narrow gauge.
Many there have converted to knuckle couplers (stead of those horrendous types put on their models and not prototype miniature hook and link (which'd be just too exhausting to make and break up trains with. That's good.
And, finally, do there exist 1:76 fine-scalers who do, say, scratch build to get 1:76 axle length/truck width, and then lay their own track for such ?
Thanks, M
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Post by theengineshed on Aug 16, 2024 13:23:11 GMT -8
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Post by edwardsutorik on Aug 16, 2024 13:36:47 GMT -8
OO scale/gauge is still around in the US: www.nmra.org/oo-scale-sig-pageI'm surprised about modelers using knuckle couplers in Britain, as the prototype doesn't. Of course, hooking up the chains between cars isn't for everyone. I wonder if anyone in the US is using link-and-pin couplers, in HO. Years ago, I knew a guy who dabbled in that, along with handlaying Code 40 narrow gauge track. |
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Post by ambluco on Aug 16, 2024 14:32:23 GMT -8
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Post by grahamline on Aug 16, 2024 18:48:28 GMT -8
Hi, are Brits ever going to have true 1:76 OO scale trucks (bogies), and axles riding on true 1:76 gauge track ? I know if I were a Brit I'd always feel slightly jipped in that my 1:76 trains had to run on 1:87 gauge HO track; that I'm technically running narrow gauge. Many there have converted to knuckle couplers (stead of those horrendous types put on their models and not prototype miniature hook and link (which'd be just too exhausting to make and break up trains with. That's good. And, finally, do there exist 1:76 fine-scalers who do, say, scratch build to get 1:76 axle length/truck width, and then lay their own track for such ? Thanks, M They have had it for decades. Look up EM gauge and P4 standards. |
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Post by ictom on Aug 17, 2024 3:31:07 GMT -8
The loading gauge is already so narrow in the UK that most of their real-life locomotives already look like they're on stilts. However, their OO gauge gives them a real advantage, I believe, that exists even today.
They've been having a quite active renaissance in pre- and turn-of-the century locomotives that I wish could be replicated here in the states. Bachmann seem to be the only ones here who are interested in 4-6-0, 4-4-0, and tender-less (tank) older locomotives, where color and detail abounded. Yet, the Bachmann locos are positively puny and many were originally tender-driven because of the size. I think something like Hornby's upcoming "Locomotion" might be difficult in true HO scale.
Yeah - N gauge is even smaller but successful, but N-scalers seem to have learned to live with a lower level of detail that HO-ers can't.
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Post by talltim on Aug 19, 2024 4:46:27 GMT -8
OO scale/gauge is still around in the US: www.nmra.org/oo-scale-sig-pageI'm surprised about modelers using knuckle couplers in Britain, as the prototype doesn't. Of course, hooking up the chains between cars isn't for everyone. I wonder if anyone in the US is using link-and-pin couplers, in HO. Years ago, I knew a guy who dabbled in that, along with handlaying Code 40 narrow gauge track. Quite a lot of modern stock has knuckle couplers now, most passenger stock has since the 1950s. Of course most multiple units have other sorts of automatic couplers. In model terms the UK standard coupler is horrible to look at AND doesn't work very well, so if you want an off the shelf alternative that works even if it doesn't look prototypical then Kadees fit the bill. There are other autocouplers that have advanages and disavantages, the most unobtrusive is probably the Alex Jackson, but you have you to make them yourself and they need maintenance.
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Post by jonklein611 on Aug 19, 2024 9:24:46 GMT -8
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