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Re: Scale - it's all in the aspect ratio
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Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:10:25 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.net^IHateSpam^
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James Powell wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
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> > > 1) Rail width
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> > Good way IMO to determine scale. We know that proto is 4' 8 1/2" and so it's
> > easy to figure out.
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> 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 is 5' something, 4-8-1/2 and 3 something, India is 5'6" or NG
> (750mm often)
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> So, where do we pick for the Lego company to have based its trains on?
> Anything from 15" (R&ER/RD&HR) to 7'1/4" is possible as track gauge. I would
> say wider than 4-8-1/2,because a lying minifig goes most of the way between the
> tracks, so if we take 4 1/3 bricks high=6ft, then the gauge is broad, not
> narrow, even though the models look like narrow gauge models (the Lego ones) to
> my eyes.
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 build my train 14 wide or
so, no?
-J-2
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> James
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| (...) 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)
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| | Re: Scale - it's all in the aspect ratio
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| (...) 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)
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