HO vs OO

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- Mick Bryan
  
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18 years ago

Tue, Nov 15, 2005 11:22 PM

And then ask the H0 modellers about Proto-87...........

Cheers, Mick

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- denjo02
  
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18 years ago

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 2:11 AM

Not quite the same thing. There is no difference in _gauge_ between H0 (or as most of the world writes it, HO) and Proto-87. The cheap US train sets you (used to be able to) buy are all, if nothing else, correctly scaled with respect to gauge.

John Dennis

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- Jane Sullivan
  
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18 years ago

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 7:19 PM

And the merkins know about Proto87 because there have been some articles in Model Railroader about layouts in P87.

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- Wolf Kirchmeir
  
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18 years ago

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 8:43 PM

Proto87 and proto48 are merkin inventions.

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- Greg Procter
  
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18 years ago

Wed, Nov 16, 2005 9:02 PM

I first came across Proto87 via Europe (Germany) AFAIK they use/used British P4 wheel profile on 16.5mm gauge. Proto48 of course would be US as most other O scale modellers use 1:43.5 or

1:45.

Regards, Greg.P.

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