P64 is code 86. NWSL offers a P64 wheeel at code 87. This represents 5"
THe PBL coined wheels are code 95.
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On Sep 8, 2008, at 3:59 AM, Tom Hawley 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
Talmadge C 'TC' Carr
Sn42 and Hn42 somewhere in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest
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