All.. It's fun to remember that Sn3 actually began as S narrow gauge running on HO track. The New Mexico NG Club had an extensive layout running this gauge in the 1970's with lots of nice scratch-built rolling stock, including a work train and San Juan train set. The earliest Tomalco 2-8-0's were all gauged to HO track. The "Cascade" car kit line was designed to be used for HO trucks before Bill Peter bought it. We made do with cardboard & wood based structure kits from Mini-Structures. There were lots of articles in the S Gaugian on how to convert HO cars to S ng. Don even wrote a soft cover book on it.
Then we rivet counters took over and look where Sn3 (and more recently scale S) is. Some things do improve with age. As already mentioned, the folks down under in New Zealand run their S scale models of the NZR on HO track to approximate their 42" Cape Gauge prototypes. South African modelers of the SAR started out the same way but have now pretty much universally migrated to HO scale models running on HOn3 trackage. Too bad, as I wanted one of the GMA/M Garrets they were going to offer in S. I did get a 19D in S, at least. Bob Hogan --- In [email protected], "Michael" <meldri...@...> 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 > > --- In [email protected], "John" <armstong5717@> wrote: > > > > Look into New Zealand Railway modeling. It is S Scale running on HO track. > > Locos (in kit form) are available and go from small suburban tank locos > > to those almost like Hudsons, or larger. Beautiful detailing. > > > > John Armstrong > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: switcherjoe > > To: [email protected] > > > > Howdy! from the Pacific Northwest > > > > I will keep the HO code 83 track in place, which I suppose make me Sn42? > ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
