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Re: The inevitable leap into 10-Wide Trains...
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Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:39:41 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Daniel Siskind wrote:
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Having been building at to a scale of 1 stud (1 brick width) = 1 foot for
(approx 1:35 scale) the better part of the last 2 decades, I decided it was
past time to upgrade my trains to the same scale. With several years
experience building 8-wides for the GMLTC, it wasn’t too difficult to make
the migration to the next, bigger thing. I’m nearly finished with my first
locomotive, a GP-40 in Burlington Northern colors, and I can’t resist posting
some preliminary photos. I hope to have a complete 10-wide train running
around the Christmas Tree this year... to view some photos of progress so
far, go here:
http://www.brickmania.com/10_wide_1/index.htm
Pictures of the actual locomotive are here:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=10313
Of course the new scale is incredibly time and parts consuming, so it will
probably be another couple of years before anything close to a displayable
layout is finished... Will post more later!
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Excellent Daniel! Nice to find a kindred spirit as I’m also an 8mm scale train
builder (since 1996). http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=62749
I started from the other end - trains first, then scenery. I aim for the scale
given by a LEGO track gauge of 37.8mm and real gauge of 1435.1mm, but allow some
licence because anything more accurate than the nearest 6” probably takes so
much work that the model might never be finished! Consequently some of my
British trains might be based on an 8-wide body when 9-wide would be better for
a 9’3” wide loco, but I reserve the right to improve the models later :-)
Having built a fleet of 8+ wide UK trains to 8mm scale, I was considering 10+
wide models for US trains in the same scale (e.g. boxcar 10’5” wide = 10 + 1
plate SNOT). I got as far as a 10x53 base for an F7, expanding on the SF loco
kit, as well as the chassis for a Shay with BBB wheels
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=147937 and a 4-8-4 Northern
chassis experiment. I have the Model Railroader Cyclopedia books for the
drawings, but all my US train thoughts are still at an early stage.
Most of my British diesels have a motor on each bogie, which works OK with a
train of about 13 straights length behind the loco, but I can see how that
arrangement on 10+ wide US locos is near the power limit. Still, I guess you’ll
be double or triple heading once you have more locos!
For some rakes of wagons I’ve replaced magnet pairs with thin 5L liftarms, since
the magnets can get too weak to pull heavy trains.
Will you be spacing all your curves out with straights and removing switch point
levers to improve clearance?
I like the flexibility of the larger scale, which allows for more detail in the
trains, sometimes as much as in OO or HO scales. Since that level of detail is
possible with the trains, I’m currently rebuilding my large layout
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=77382 , which I was exhibiting
in the UK, so that the scenery is up to the same standard. My small layout
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=77383 , which served as a test
bed to prove the trackbed concepts, is still ready to show in the meantime. The
new large layout will have trackbed, sloping track, modules,...
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=178209 . As well as the
trains taking longer to build, the layout takes longer to build too, probably
another 5 years for mine!
I look forward to seeing more of your trains.
Mark
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| Sounds like we have a lot of building experiences in common. Most of the obstacles to large scale train modelling are familiar to me, since I've been working on GMLTC's 8-wide layout for the past five years or so. We found that the weakness of (...) (18 years ago, 24-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| Having been building at to a scale of 1 stud (1 brick width) = 1 foot for (approx 1:35 scale) the better part of the last 2 decades, I decided it was past time to upgrade my trains to the same scale. With several years experience building 8-wides (...) (18 years ago, 19-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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