Bud, You are right about the difference between 126 rail S scale rail
and 125 O scale rail. I bought the Miller tie strip and his rail in the
middle 60's and it is my mainline on my present layout. I use 100, a
few feet of 83 and some 70 on sidings also. I don't know if I built a
different layout now if I would use the 126 again but I'm not tearing it
up because of that 3' rule--works for me too!
Bob Werre
Bud Rindfleisch wrote:
> Hi,
> I think this rail height discussion came up before on our list.
> There is more to rail "weight" than just the height. Obviously code 125
> in S equals rail to a height of 8". True, that was the limit to
> prototype rail height as used on portions of the Pennsy main. However,
> model rail rolled to code 125 can take on different rail head widths,
> base. etc. I've seen some rail sold as "O" scale code 125 that has a
> much heavier cross section than that used by S Helper. This rail truly
> looks too big for S.
> Years back in S there was rail sold as code 126, I think by Robt. L
> Miller labs, maker of fine tie strip and Alco switchers. This rail had a
> finer cross section and a head width about equal to that of most code
> 100 today.
>
>
> Bud Rindfleisch
>
>
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