 | | Re: Scale - it's all in the aspect ratio —James Powell
| | | | (...) No. We know that most of _continental europe, the UK and North America_ are 4-8-1/2". However, there is a lot of narrow gauge stuff around, and a fair amount of broad gauge too. All of Russia is 5' something. Africa is mostly 3'6", Australia (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Scale - it's all in the aspect ratio —John Neal
| | | | | | (...) Wouldn't LEGO models look more like wide gauge trains? If they were narrow, the trains would have to be the size of G scale (although something tells me we are not on the same page here). Example: If I wanted to model, say 30" gauge, I would (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Scale - it's all in the aspect ratio —James Powell
| | | | | | | (...) the (...) are (...) or (...) Yep, although the aspect ratio starts to come into play, for _any_ railway, about 3:1 width of stock:track is maximum ratio for comfortable running. (for example on 7.x" track, a 20" wide loco/car is about as wide (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Scale - it's all in the aspect ratio —John Porter
| | | | | (...) Just for the record, Australia has an Interstate network of 4'8-1/2", and state networks of 4'8-1/2" (New South Wales, South Australia), 3'6" (Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania) and 5'3" (Victoria, South Australia) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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