Dear Jim,
I sent letters to Sunset (Mort Mann?) with a list of the models OMI produced
with code 110 wheelsets. But, they decided to use the NMRA standards. One
argument we posed was that you could not build a layout to the NMRA standards
as they were not supported with a currently available NMRA track gage. I think
by then we had Wayne Pier's NASG milled gages.
Of course the first models with code 110 wheels was the NASG ACF covered
hoppers. Jim led that committee to start the code 110 ball rolling.
A funny twist is the S Scale company that currently produces items using
code 125 wheels gaged to the NASG standards. And, I do not think anyone has
noticed this odd combination.
Best,
Don
--- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The S Scale Sunset UP Big Boy was built back in the day to the NMRA S
Scale wheel gauge. The NASG soon thereafter approved a slightly
different set of standards. <SNIP>
Bill:
Just a minor point of clarification... The NASG standards were adopted
in 1981, I think the Big Boy came a few years after (1983?). Overland
also built their first S scale model, the SD40-2, in 1983 using the
NMRA wheel standards.
Don Thompson and Wayne Pier did a lot of "proselytizing" with each new
manufacturer/ builder to have subsequent models built to the NASG
dimensions. I know OMI did; I have no recollection as to how Sunset
responded.
Jim K.
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