--- In [email protected], Michael Ostertag <wsmwrr@...> wrote:
>
> I'm going to be putting Northwest Shortline wheels on all my scale
> equipment. Which tread will give me the most prototypical looking
> wheels. I am going to begin building my layout in a week or so and
> want it to be very high quality scale layout. Thanks for the patience.
>
There's only 2 choices of NWSL wheels as far as I know, regular S scale code
110 and Proto64 code 87. The P64 wheels will look the most prototypical because
that what they are, exact prototype size. The code 110 wheels are the usual S
wheel and are quite forgiving in their needs when it comes to trackwork
accuracy while P64 wheels like any prototype width and flanged product need
more care in building the track.
I've worked with P48 O scale and P87 HO scale and found P48 easy to use while
P 87 is pretty fussy so my guess is P64 is harder than regular S scale but not
much harder than normal HO or N scales when it comes to builder effort
required.
If prototype appearance is really your first goal then I'd suggest getting a
couple of sets of P64 wheels and installing them in some cars and see how you
like them before making a big commitment. Personally I would be using P64 on my
S stuff but it all already has the code 110 wheels and I don't want to spend
the extra money. If I could trade code 110 wheels for P64 wheels I would not be
afraid of using them but my goals are different than a lot of S scalers when it
comes to scope of layout and type of operations desired. If you test some P64
wheels and don't like them you can always run the code 110 wheels like most of
us do with little thought about their appearance, once the cars are built and
on the layout the code 110 stuff looks decent, much better than the standard
wheels on HO models that most model railroaders are content with...DaveBranum
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