Re: Why three feet?
| August 16, 2007 02:35PM |
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DickSnider Wrote:
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> They were just thinking ahead to the days when we
> would be trying to re-create everything in 1:48
> scale and didn't want us to have to call it On35
> or On3 1/2.
Besides, running 2.5" to the foot scale live steam on 7 1"2 gauge track makes a perfect 3' gauge.
But Richard, for the indoor stuff the correct ratio is 1:64.
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> They were just thinking ahead to the days when we
> would be trying to re-create everything in 1:48
> scale and didn't want us to have to call it On35
> or On3 1/2.
Besides, running 2.5" to the foot scale live steam on 7 1"2 gauge track makes a perfect 3' gauge.
But Richard, for the indoor stuff the correct ratio is 1:64.
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