Michael,
WHERE in San Jose?? I used to live on Williams Road around the
corner from
Billy Wilson's Bottle Shop (and Queen of Apostles Church). Worked
for the Gummint in all those
places up by Moffett NAS, and the Geological Survey in Menlo Park,
and in San Bruno. Over span of thirty years
I parked my behind in Menlo Park, Cupertino, Foster City, Fremont,
Orinda, Walnut Creek & Concord.
You KNOW you're old when you remember Hiway 24 as TWO lanes<g>
Glad to see that On30 isn't the only place where one clobbers up an
HO drive, pretending it's something else.
Glad to see you all are happy snobs, not the rivet counting kind.
JR, wanting to move home, to be with Governor Moonbeam, again . . . . .
On Nov 20, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Michael wrote:
> Just my math brain kicking in here:
> In the US, most narrow gauge was 36", so let's assume that someone
> from the Pacific Northwest might be interested in US 36" gauge
> railroading. Bachmann builds mostly RGS in On30, meaning that it is
> off by -13.4% (since HO track really scales to 31.17 inches in O).
> HO track used as Sn3 is off by 15.5%, about the same error but the
> other direction. If someone is OK with On30, they should be OK with
> Sn42 to represent US narrow gauge.
>
> We S scalers are snobs, but maybe we could be gracious and allow JR
> to use HO mechanisms under S Scale superstructures. I'd say for a
> first step, get an HO locomotive that looks narrow gaugey, and put
> an S Scale cab on it. If you like it, and evolve into a snob, you
> can come back later and remodel the superstructure with S Scale
> fittings.
>
> -Michael the Snob Rivet Counter
> -San Jose, CA
>
>
>
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