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Title: true to scale?
Post by: NarrowMinded on February 06, 2010, 11:04:35 PM

Hi HO Guys,
I don't usually do ho scale or diesel's, but a friend asked me to do a little circle layout for his office. He only wants a Loco and caboose since it is such a small layout. So I picked up a Athern SW1500 UP, my normal shop didn't have any UP Cabooses in stock so I stopped by another shop and found a Atlas trainman UP cupola caboose, when I look at them together the Caboose looks sorta small. does anyone here know how these scale out ?

Thanks

Title: Re: true to scale?
Post by: Guilford Guy on February 06, 2010, 11:06:22 PM

They're both 1:87.1, but the Athearn SW1500s have a high riding look to them which is probably what is throwing you off.

Title: Re: true to scale?
Post by: NarrowMinded on February 06, 2010, 11:24:15 PM

Thanks Alex, it does seem to be the Height of the SW1500.

NM

Title: Re: true to scale?
Post by: Tylerf on February 07, 2010, 12:10:58 AM

Those cabooses are also pretty small in comparison to say a more modern wide vision one if it is the one I've got in mind.

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