You get more bang for your buck, especially with under the tree stuff, with N gauge. Two levels, a siding, houses, factories, etc. Oh, and Santa's Sleigh! :) All on a two foot square elevated piece of 3/4" plywood with a 8" hole under and through the mountain.
On Oct 28, 2013, at 21:14 , Alan C wrote: > Thanks for that, George. I over-estimated the size of the chess pieces & > thought it might be O Gauge. The vintage Lionel was actually S Gauge, a bit > smaller than O. I have Lionel, Hornby, Rivarossi & Big-Big plus about 80m of > self made track. When I still lived in Rhodesia, there were 3 of us but I > never got going again after moving here. Yes, the modern stuff is very high > quality & expensive, as you say, like our photography. > > Alan > > -----Original Message----- From: George Sinos > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 9:10 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO - (and VESO) The Christmas Train > > Thanks for the comments everyone. > > Alan - the train in this photo is HO scale, roughly half the size of O. > > When I was in the hobby shop buying the circle of track for these > trains I saw some modern O. Wow, nothing like the old Lionel stuff > that I remember from when I was a kid. Much more detailed and very > much made to look as real as possible. Also, very expensive. $50-$80 > for a boxcar. Engine prices were in the Hundreds of dollars. That > would add up pretty quickly. Of course, O is pretty big, so you > wouldn't need much. Then again, from the conversation I overheard > while there, I'm guessing the train hobbyists have the same issues > with rolling stock as photographers have with lenses. > > gs -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
