Quote from: Terry Toenges on October 06, 2018, 11:08:53 AM
In the pictures - the figures and structure are 1/72 and the locos are HO. Right?

The rolling stock and locomotives are Roundhouse with new details.

The structures are HO some are modified with new doors and the figures are 1/72.

Doug Tagsold's layout is very large.



to quote from the article in "Model Railroad Planning 2018"



Harold

This idea really does work.



If you have imagination and not rigid in thinking.

Harold

Doug Tagsold's Colorado & Southern layout is really outstanding.

Looks great!



Harold

Got my copy of "Model Railroad Planning 2018" and Doug Tagsold's Colorado & Southern is a really great layout. Scale1/72 gives inexpensive almost ready-to-run narrow gauge.

The Roundhouse/MDC/Athearn equipment looks really great.

Went into the seventh level of my ungodly abyss of a train room and extracted some Roundhouse cars:









What more can I ask narrow gauge 4-4-0's and C-class 2-8-0's? Cheap, available narrow gauge in a large enough small scale to permit viable layout building.

Thanks Doug for bringing this brilliant idea to light. Can smell layout building.

We have a scale to download:

http://www.chainsawjunction.com/172n4/172scale.pdf

Thanks if you visit the website.

http://www.chainsawjunction.com/172n4/

Harold

Have been running the Mogul on 18" since 1998 and the Winter Wonderland trainset.

Check out my video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REwPeD9ELm8

Runs and looks great on 18" radius.

Thank you if you visit
Harold

Found this idea on the net but was written up in Kalmbach's "Model Railroad Planning 2018". The issue featured Doug Tagsold's Colorado & Southern. The premise is using HO gauge equipment to represent 1/72 scale narrow gauge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzTH795P5w

http://smallmr.com/wordpress/doug-tagsolds-colorado-southern-narrowgauge-modelrailroad-modelrail-train/

Liking out-of-the-box thinking this is my take on the idea:

http://www.chainsawjunction.com/172n4/







Thank you if you Visit

Harold

Hard to believe that I bought my first Bachmann On30 Wonderland Express train-set 20 years ago. Wow, twenty years ago.

Have a "what-I-did" about lowering the Bachmann On30 freight cars to eliminate the funky draft gear look.

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/lower_cars/







Engineer Bill is excited to be back on the net.

I know that lowering the cars has been done before. Never did it because most used the Bachmann On30 logging truck which is expensive and scarce. Found a really cheap On30 truck at Shapeways.

Speaking of time, been spouting my garbage on the internet for 15 years. Next March is the 15th anniversity of pacificcoastairlinerr.com. Have refreshed some of the "moving" stuff on the website to reflect On30 today.

https://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/

Thanks everyone who has visited
Harold

Don't buy hobby packs of screws.

http://www.microfasteners.com/home.php?cat=579

Harold

Referring to my previous post about the Bachmann passenger cars being 10'-3" in Scale55 brings up a question.

Were there any 10'-3" narrow gauge cars?

Going south of the border the answer is yes. The Mexican narrow gauge lines had tall narrow gauge cars in both wood and steel.



The Bachmann cars work as issued.

As far as the MTH figures go. They are probably undersized for the MTH shorty "tinplate" cars.

Harold

Quote from: Terry Toenges on September 21, 2018, 06:57:15 PM
Those are Railking's "O" figures  Are you saying they aren't "O"?
MTH RailKing O 30-11043 Unpainted Figure Set (120)
I guess as long as they fit, it doesn't matter what scale you call them.

They ain't "O".

The women all the way to the right is only four foot tall in O scale.

She is 5'-3" in Scale55.

They are Scale55.

Harold

Wanting to retain my PcalRwy passenger car lettering that I had done earlier in On30.



Searching references the Bachmann passenger cars are 10'-3" high in the body, most narrow gauge cars are about 9'-3". Standard gauge cars match the 10'-3" height of the Bachmann cars.



Works for me.

The Bachmann passenger car's interior is actually Scale55. These Scale55 figures fit the seating. O scale figures are too big.



Harold

Feeling in the mood to think about building a 55n3 layout, I re-examined PECO 0-16.5(On30). Love PECO track, sturdy, robust and available. Something for the ham-handed.



How close is PECO track to 55n3, the ties are 8 inches wide x 6 feet long on 26 inch centers?

The D&RGW had these specs:

"The ties have a cross section of (HxW) of 6"x8" (15.25cm x 20.32cm), regular ties have a length of 6' "

"It seems that 30' long sections of rail were most common, 16 ties were used for such a section, resulting in a distance of 22 1⁄2″ from mid of tie till mid of tie. For 33' long sections of rail a distance of 22" and for 39' long sections of rail a distance of 21 1⁄4″ had been defined."

The Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette Nov/Dec 89 had an article on track and the PECO track fell within many railroads parameters.



Even got some figures painted.

Harold

Got my cab from Shapeways. Did the cab as a basic shape to see what could be done initially.









Came out really well.

Also got some figures from Modelu in the UK, he is on the left, very nice.



Harold

Spent the day creating a 3d cab:



Should have it in about two weeks from Shapeways.

Geez, that was easy.

Harold

How does it stack up against another Sn3.5 locomotive?

Found my "HO" Ken Kidder mogul that I got as a kid for Christmas, now a basket case. It is a larger "next gen" 1880's loco.



Yeah, it is an Sn3.5 Japanese 7100 class locomotive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JGR_Class_7100



Harold