How do you determine the size of streets and sidewalks | O Gauge . . . Jay- Start with size How big are the roads and sidewalks going to be? If you want to get close to scale, an 8' wide sidewalk would be 2" wide at 1:48 scale A 24' wide road would be 6" wide at scale I use a scale calculator on my phone to do the calculations Check out ScaleCalc in the app store play store Bob
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New offerings from Buco - O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum Hello Gentlemen (and Ladies): It has been some time since posting We (my good wife and I) have just returned to "the land down-under" from a two month driving holiday in Europe While we were in Switzerland I went to the new Buco tinplate train factory in Bauma (a small town to the north-east of Zurich), and saw how they still manufacture tinplate wagons, passenger cars, and electric
How do you determine the size of streets and sidewalks | O Gauge . . . Here is another hint for making and taking “scale” dimensions Get yourself an “architectural scale” which is marked in a number of different ratios For instance, there is a 1 4” to a foot scale This is perfect for us O Gauge guys As an old school Structural Draftsman, I have quite a few Donald
Returning to O-Scale Gauge – Decisions Hi! I am returning to O-Scale Gauge after being away 30 plus years Recently I sold all my high-quality N-Scale Katy coupler equipment Then I bough a L N K-Line Hudson TMCC for display After receiving the Hudson, it triggered my interest to get back into O-scale I am looking for some advice and guidance to get up to get up to speed with all the changes that have occurred in O-Scale over the
NE Ohio O-Gaugers Group - O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum NEXT (Correction from original post!!) Saturday April 27 We have a group that meets in NE Ohio, about every month We started last November after a Jeff James' post in Fall 2018 Since that initial meeting we have met several times, each with the following format: - Local group member sets up - breakfast at a restaurant chosen by the local member - topic at breakfast group discussion - tour or
Lets hear, see and learn about your 3-Rail Traditional Toy Train . . . As this is the "3-Rail Traditional Toy Train" OGR forum, we need to hear from those with that style of layout We are a small minority of viewers and participants on this, our forum, so it will be helpful and interesting to learn more about our layouts, and their operation So please post a small, short introduction to your "3-Rail Traditional Toy Train Layout" to include a few pictures and an
How do you determine the size of streets and sidewalks | O Gauge . . . My streets are 6 inches wide (scale 12 feet) which fit my 1 43 cars very well I used foam core board and the sidewalks are from Bar Mills models I avoid the MTH buildings because I don’t like the out of scale clunky bases that they’re mounted on Used Woodland Scenics asphalt topcoat paint with some light gray chalk for weathering Lines are 1 8” auto striping tape
G-Gauge | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum I am not sure if I am posting this in the right spot or not or if I am going to get chastised for asking, but here goes I have a 6 year old and a 3 year old and they are into trains, at Christmas we put up the P E O gauge train around the