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Re: Shay #5
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:24:47 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> Ah, well, you lost me. I never said anything about 36"; the "3" in On3 is
> short for 30"... Actually, I was shooting from the hip in my initial post-- I
> just found that link after your post-- weren't you blathering something about
> HOn3? :-)
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> Basically what happens is that to model narrow gauge, you take track from the
> next smallest scale and call it 30"-- it's not perfect, but close enough.
I thought that when numbers like this were used for narrow gauge they were
in reference to the gauge of the rails in feet? As in On3 for 3 feet or 36"
gauge while On2&1/2 was two and a half feet or 30" gauge. I've also heard of
On2, but never On30, perhaps that's just an easier way of expressing On2&1/2?
Jeff Christner
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| (...) Ah, well, you lost me. I never said anything about 36"; the "3" in On3 is short for 30"... Actually, I was shooting from the hip in my initial post-- I just found that link after your post-- weren't you blathering something about HOn3? :-) (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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