Of course there is also the truck side frame thickness issue. For me, I don't have to take a deep breath and squint to darken the image of my railroad to image I model something that more or less resembles the prototype. Ben Trousdale
--- In [email protected], "Tom Hawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: raleigh > . . . . . . . . it seems that so much attention is paid to couplers and yet > we ignore the very foundation of a railroad car - the wheels! > > > > > > > > > > > > Everything Raleigh said above is true, as far as I know, but what's even > more obvious in the difference between a real wheel scaled down to a 64th > and one of our wheels is the width. SHS's code 110 wheels are an > improvement in that aspect over our 125± wheels, if your trackwork is > precise enough, but even 110 is not really 1/64 real world. If we say a > real wheel's tire is about 6 inches wide, that would call for a "code 094" > wheel. > > Getting back to the back of the wheel, let's wait and see what Mr King's > wheels, soon to be released, look like. > > Tom Hawley > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
