I was thinking something different for wide gauge, a timber/pole logging road. I actually have an area of my layout which is not yet built, where I was planning on expanding a logging branch, but lately I've been thinking of doing it with timber rails. Since, from what I can tell most of the roads using pole or wooden rails used wide gauge, I would probably make it Sw6. Six foot gauge seemed common from the production listing in the Climax book for locos built for pole roads. I'd like to run it with a Class A Climax, and thought it could run it on battery power with radio control. Maybe have an enginehouse with metal straps on the rails for recharging. The hard part will be figuring out how to build the Class A Climax. I'd like one gauged for Sn3 also, but that one could be a little larger. Cars would probably just be some wooden disconnects and I'd use link and pin couplers.
Wheels for wooden track are also an issue, but I figure worst case, I would have to turn them myself. Dave Heine From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Sn2 Crew Hickory NC 2011 - Question about S narrow gauge I wonder if there is anyone who models in Sw5 or Sw6 -- something like the early Erie wide gauge, or the 5-footers that were common in the South at the time of the Civil War. Lee Rainey <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97476590/grpId=252190/grpspId=1705346731/msgId= 84261/stime=1329787818>
