Any suggestions for HO gradient?

You know, Greg, the depth of your ignorance is astounding. You have no idea what actually happened in the toy/model train industry and hobby. None. Nada. Zip. Zero.

I would recommend that your read a couple of books on the subject, but the infusion of correct information might blow your brain to smithereens. Oops, come to think of it, though, nobody would notice.

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Wolf K
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Yup!!! Not everyone did that. Chuck D.

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Charles Davis

Unfortunately, an explosive charge of that magnitude might at most produce an ear twitch.

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Steve Caple

"Model Railways" are not restricted to present day prototypes. In fact models are a very suitable means of representing historical subjects. Any MR that has a fixed era is in fact a historical model (other than those set in the future ;-)

Good to see you have some variety! ;-)

Greg.P.

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Greg.Procter

Wolf, ol buddy, check out the lists that wander the internet in regards to scale and gauge. You will find that more than half of them originate from my research. Just a little thought on your part would lead you to the conclusion that I have done my research and that I have worked my way through many of the myths and legends that permeate the subject. British books almost always claim model railways started in Britain, US sources usually ignore anything from outside the SRUSa. Where a "first" is preceded by an event elsewhere and a causative link can be demonstrated, that "first" is no longer relevant.

Regards, Greg.P.

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Greg.Procter

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:35:11 +1300, Charles Davis wro= te:

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Hi Chuck, the myth I was attempting to debunk there was that 1/4":1' followed from=

7mm:1' as used in the UK. It followed from the gauge, the US citizens who founded it didn't look at what was being done by scale modellers in Britain, compare 7mm on their old school rulers with their brother's old school ruler inch fract= ion scale and say "1/4" is near enough to 7mm". More likely they measured th= e toy track gauge and decided 1/4" : 1' was close enough for their purpose= s. For goodness sake, give yank modellers of the past some credit!

Regards, Greg.P.

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Greg.Procter

Maerklin set the gauge for "O" at 35mm (rail center to rail center) in 1900 at the Leipzig toy fair. As their rails were 3mm (or 1/8") across the head this gave 32mm gauge in present day terms.

The gauge is right, the scale (irrelevant in 1900) is wrong.

Greg.P.

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Greg.Procter

How can you destroy something that does not exist?

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a_a_a

Wolf, your assumption that _you_ are the font of all wisdom places you firmly in the "ignorant idiot" category.

Regards, Greg.P.

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Greg.Procter

Somehow I don't think that Märklin "0" in 1900 has much to do with modern-day British Scale7.

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Erik Olsen

Those old guiys were so bad at things that they considered that the track gauge was a scale 5'! Rather than change the gauge or the scale of the tinplate track, they just used the combination as it was. There are a lot of this kind of problems all through the S3 standard and nobody has any intention of changing any of them. Those taht are doing superscale stuff have done a fair bit towards making the wheel and track standards close to what the prototype is as well as following the basic form of the prototype design.

-- Bob May

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Bob May

Actually, as soon as somebody builds some track in any scale, there will be those that will build equipement to fit the track. All they need to do is to figure out what the scale is that they have to work with for that gaguge and off they go. Approximations work out fine for most and thus you find that the gauge and scale don't exactly match, especially after it come out to the thrid digit.

-- Bob May

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Bob May

Sure, in the same way that a Ford 1925 Model T has little to do with a

2005 Ford Mustang.

- Ma set the gauge.

- Henry Greenly set the British scale ratio. for Ma's gauge.

- P7 uses Henry Greenly's scale with scale prototypical gauge.

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Greg.Procter

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