Yesterday I ran across a yard sale where a guy was sellling a mixture of O scale trains and O 27 scale. His track was primarily O27. Can an O gauge engine run on O 27 track? Also is it possible to mix the two different gauge tracks together?
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Rich
Bingo! Thanks Rich, that's exactly what I was looking for. Not to be a bragger, but the guy had two Lionel steamers, one in O gauge, the other in O27, two Erie Built diesel A units, 5 Freight cars, 3 Lionel stream lined passenger cars and 3 pre WW2 passenger cars all for $100.00. I think I hit a glory hole!
You got bragging rights. Good shopping.
About 1953 when I was a kid, a friend came over to my house with his O scale diesels. I remember his locos did not like my track on curves.
Rich
Bill-
It sounds like you got a particularly good buy, especially if everything works. Heck, you got a good buy even if you have to do some repairs!
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Rich
Please note that there ARE mistakes in the definitions - US n scale is 1/160, NOT 1/16, and Z scale is 1/220, NOT 1/22.
tac
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Quote from: tac on August 09, 2010, 08:59:55 AM
Quote from: richg on August 08, 2010, 10:34:04 AM
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Rich
Please note that there ARE mistakes in the definitions - US n scale is 1/160, NOT 1/16, and Z scale is 1/220, NOT 1/22.
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Yeah, thanks for bringing that up. I saw the mistakes after but have not had time to say anything.
I have found after some years of seearching the 'Net, you have to check things out.
At the time I was only looking forthe O and 0-27 scales.
Rich
Dear All,
I've heard O-27 unkindly called Sw80" (or Sw6-2/3'),
which translates into 1:64 scale locos and cars running on 1.25" gauge track.
n = narrower than standard gauge (< 56-1/2" prototype)
w = wider than standard gauge (> 56-1/2" prototype)
Some post-war Lionel steamers were sold under 2 different road numbers, one for O gauge, the other for O-27 gauge. (646/2046, e.g.)
Most O gauge locos do need the bigger 31" diameter curves, though.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Joe - there were more differences with 0-27 than just track diameter. They had a line called "scout " which had cheaper cars that in some cases were also smaller. For example there is the 6454 box car - smaller than the O Gauge 6464 boxcar.
I believe the cheaper line was an offshoot of the Ives line that Lionel got when Ives went bankrupt.
A friend found O and O-27 gauge trains at several garage sales and wanted to run them together. I told him to run everything on O gauge track.
I still have my first postwar engine, which happens to be a scout engine(haha wouldn't you know) and they're relatively smaller in comparison to my 2046 and other O scale locomotives even the Adriatics dwarf them