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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> Okay, okay. I was wrong thinking 0n3 meant 30" (dropping the "0"), but what fouled me up was your initial incorrect correction: Me: sort of like the popular scale On3, where you'd model in O scale (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
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(...) Oops. That should be the long leg and the hypoteneuse. John (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
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(...) What does work is 1-13-3. It's close enough that Track Designer will consider it a closed loop. You can turn it into a triangle with a 5-13-7-12-4-5 pattern (starting with curves and alternating with straights). Then it's easy enough to see (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Scales and Gauges (was Shay #5
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(...) No, John. If you'd pay attention you'd learn something. The 3 means 3 FEET or 36 inches. NOT 30. This would be the third or fourth time you've been told that, and not just by me either (Jeff C is exactly correct). (...) And subsequent ones... (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Shay #5
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(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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