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Re: Questions about 8 wide
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:07:56 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Robert Powell writes:
> Hello All,
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> I've just recently gotten into Trains and 8 wide seems to be the best for
> modeling but I have a few questions.
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> 1. What's a good length for a Diesel?
> 2. A Passenger car?
> 3. A Freight car?
> 4. What's a good height?
Robert,welcome to the marvellous world of 8wide! :-)
About lenght: 8wide is as big as O gauge,but the radii of curves are much
smaller(half of smaller O gauge radii)....this is a big limit,because you can't
build trains at their effective lenght,you've got to shorten them.
Talking about european rolling stock (I'm italian),I usually build 40-long
coaches,36-long big locomotives (smaller ones -switchers- are anyway
more than 20-long) and 20 to 36-long freight cars.
These lenghts are ok also for american stock (e.g. I build 32 or 36-long
boxcars)
About height: in my trains,older rolling stock is as tall as 6wide,contemporary
stock is 1 brick taller and double decker coaches 2 bricks taller.
Play well
Gianluca
BTW visit my creations (also 8wide stuff):
http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=gm
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