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Re: G scale lego trains
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:29:43 GMT
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He's serious! He saw a pair of G scale trucks in my LEGO room the other
night and I saw his wheels spinning (pun intended)! Then he read my Lugnet
bio: "Someday I will build... A "G" scale train system out of LEGO (14 studs
wide)" and called it GOOFY!
SteveB
In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes:
> Ben Fleskes wrote:
> >
> > A search of lugnet trains didn't get far so and excuse me if this has been
> > discussed before.
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> > What scale have people used when building G scale trains? I understand the
> > following are common:
> >
> > 1:32
> > 1:29
> > 1:22.5
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> > All of which run on the same size G scale track - which really isn't that
> > much bigger then LEGO track.
> >
> > Assuming a 10' wide train:
> >
> > 1:32 gets you a 12 studs wide (11.91 rounded up)
> > 1:22.5 get you a 16 studs wide (16.93 rounded down to the nearest even number)
> > 1:29 gets you a 14 studs wide (13.14 rounded up to the nearest even number)
> >
> > 1:29 scale seems just goofy.
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> Ooh I am looking forward to this one.....
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> Chris
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> P.S. Are you trolling or are you serious?
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> > I'm using LGB wheels that are 1 3/16" in diameter which scales to 38" at
> > 1:32 scale so that seems to be a pretty good place to go.
> >
> > 1:22.5 scale seems a little big. So I'm inclined to go with 1:32.
> >
> > Any thoughts on the subject?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ben
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| I was being cagey because John Neal has built 14-wide trains on G scale trucks. The other day I commented about his caboose. (URL) thought John might make a comment since someone was referring to 14-wide as goofy. Chris (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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