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Model Railroading > It ain't much.....Date: 10/15/16 00:09 It ain't much..... Author: markloos ...but finally a place to meet! Got a 200 year lease (HO scale), Comes with electricity and water. Convenient to all right down at the end of Railroad Avenue!
Hey! Is Bobby drinking a beer?!   Date: 10/15/16 06:46 Re: It ain't much..... Author: boejoe Hope those logs don't tumble onto the white vette. Any room inside the club house for a layout?
Date: 10/15/16 07:39 Re: It ain't much..... Author: RustyRayls NICE!!
Bob Date: 10/15/16 08:33 Re: It ain't much..... Author: wabash2800 What's the guy doing with an axe behind the building?
Date: 10/15/16 08:48 Re: It ain't much..... Author: markloos OK, guys. Trying to answer Joe's question. Have room for a layout in the building, but having trouble calculating the gauge. The building is HO scale 1 1/4 inches by 1 3/4 inches. So, an N scale 4'x8' layout inside this HO scale building would result in a Alco RS-1 switcher being how long?
and the actual "real world" gauge would be?? .....Must go take my meds now and lie down.......... Mark <>< Date: 10/15/16 09:01 Re: It ain't much..... Author: markloos The guy with the axe is weeding - only tool he could find for the job and heaven knows, no one else in the club ever wants to do any maintenance around the place.......
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/16 09:02 by markloos. Date: 10/15/16 09:56 Re: It ain't much..... Author: RichM I'm counting on my fingers but to make the calculation easier, if the locomotive is 5 inches long, dividing that by 160 gives you 1/32" or 0.8 mm. And I'm thinking 5 inches is a big locomotive in N scale.
microscope, please... Date: 10/15/16 10:40 Re: It ain't much..... Author: pmack The HO scale N scale layout would be 1.10"x0.55". The loco would be 665.75"/ 87/160 = .047" about 3/64th of an inch. The final scale to use when working with full size dimesions would be 1/13,920, about 1/30 T scale.
Date: 10/15/16 11:45 Re: It ain't much..... Author: markloos Hey, thanks Rich & Paul for the calculations. You'd think with my pea brain, I wouldn't have trouble calculating these small measurements. Got a call from Japan - They're ready to start tooling in this scale if we can assure a marketplace. Hmmmmm...... ;-) Mark <><
Date: 10/15/16 11:56 Re: It ain't much..... Author: markloos Joe, regarding your concerning smashing the 'vette, the only good news is that the log cars are stationary on a siding waiting to be unloaded. The parking area you see is actually the unloading area for Eagle Pass Lumber and we only get to use it for parking during off hours. That's why the rent is so cheap!. Mark <><
 Date: 10/15/16 16:54 Re: It ain't much..... Author: santafedan Don't let the guy with the beer sight the track for alignment.
Date: 10/15/16 17:49 Re: It ain't much..... Author: RichM Paul is right and I'm wrong. I essentially divided by 160 twice, rather than starting with an HO dimension.
I was wondering how I could be off by 1/64". Semiconductor chip dimensions! Date: 10/15/16 19:14 Re: It ain't much..... Author: markloos Just answering another question that came in off line. Photography was nothing special - just used my iPhone, point and click - what you see is what you get. Mark <><
Date: 10/15/16 19:20 Re: It ain't much..... Author: wabash2800 1.25 x 1.75 inches would be about 9'-1" x 12-'8.5". A 4 x 8 would be about 9/16" x 1-1/8". A real RS-1 is about 55 feet in length and if it is N scale on that 4x8 layout it would be about 3/64".
Victor A. Baird http://www.erstwhilepublications.com Date: 10/16/16 09:58 Re: It ain't much..... Author: chakk I give it a week at most before some microphysicist will post a photo of an Alco for the layout in that Model Railroad Club building. They routinely make such small stuff in their jobs.
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