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Russo Loco

January 13, 2010 11:00PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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In the olden days, before I discovered 12"/foot scale, I had a couple of HO and HOn3 track gauges
that had a single pin on one side and two pins on the other. The single pin was placed against the
inside rail, and the outer rail was then "automagically" bowed out just a bit to widen the gauge on
curves. In principle, this should work in 12"/foot scale, whether the gauge is 4'-8½" or 3', but have
such three-point gauges ever been used in 'real life' to make it unnecessary to add spacers to two-
point gauge bars on curves?

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What is your gauge bar setting for 36" track?	Keith Berry	January 13, 2010 05:01PM
Re: What is your gauge bar setting for 36" track?	Garrett Augustus	January 13, 2010 10:15PM
Re: What is your gauge bar setting for 36" track?	Russo Loco	January 13, 2010 11:00PM
Re: What is your gauge bar setting for 36" track?	Garrett Augustus	January 13, 2010 11:10PM
Re: What is your gauge bar setting for 36" track?	John E. Bull	January 14, 2010 09:52AM
Re: What is your gauge bar setting for 36" track?	dougvv	January 14, 2010 04:03PM
Re: What is your gauge bar setting for 36" track?	John E. Bull	January 14, 2010 01:35PM

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