Would anyone else like to see short coach and combine produced that would go well with the 18' cars?
Vince
I would spring for a pair immediately!
The famous John Allen combine would be a nice starting point!
I would bet the On3 guys would spring for quite a few for converting to On3 - at least the freelancers and short line modelers would.
I bet a short coach and combine would be a real hit with the On30 folks,I remember the John Allen versions and they were much copied over the years.
Royce
Not that hard to just make if you need them.
I was under the impression that the current range of passenger cars are already under scale length!
I was thinking of something like 30' and narrow like the 18' cars.
Vince
That would be hardly worth the tooling costs I would think!
Considering that the current passenger cars are 223mm long over the balcony ends that scales up to approx 32'long at the 0n30 scale of 7mm= 1'
The width of the cars is 47mm which is only around 5mm wider that the width of an 18ft freight car.,
I would ffeel that Bachmann would gain more sales if they were to market a passenger car nearer to scale length, but given tooling costs and the cuurrent slow sales in the hobby markets I don't think theres any chance if it happening.
So would you go for a short four wheel caboose? 8)
Royce
The Sierra Railroad in California was a standard gauge railroad but the Angles branch had such sharp curves so they had a short combine and coach,if you take a look at the Roundhouse overton HO coach and combine they were copied after the Sierra Railroad.
Royce
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of the On30 modellers out there.
I would definitely go for a number of short 4 wheel cabeese in D&RGW, RGS and C&S, even though they wouldn't be prototypical. The usual story about that is " It's my railroad, and even though I want to represent these railroads, I will run what I fancy". On30 for these roads obviously isn't prototypical anyway, but it is great equipment, and is affordable.
Happy railroading,
RGS Goose.
I did not mean to hijack this link so I am sorry and may all of you have a merry christmas.
Royce
I would love to see Bachmann produce shorty passenger cars. I suggest that they should be in the 20-24 foot range. While many american 3 foot gauge cars such as in Colorado and the Maine 2 foot cars gauge were considerably longer, there are prototypes for such cars. In Queensland, Australia the Buderim tramway, a 30 inch gauge line, had a 20 foot 6 inch long passenger car, and a number of 2 foot gauge lines had passenger cars around 24 foot 6 inches in length. I've no doubt there were many others around the world. In the USA the Gilpin tram had 21 foot excursion cars (they had no other passenger cars) and the Yosemite Short lines proposed passenger cars would have been short, their freight cars were 18 foot! There may have been others.
So shorty passenger cars are quite plausible, at least for a freelance layout.
Hamish
These might be better with the inside frame 4-4-0, and even the OF 4-4-0. I think they would be a really nice addition to the rolling stock line.
Hi,
Stevelewis wrote:
- Considering that the current passenger cars are 223mm long over the balcony ends that scales up to approx 32'long at the 0n30 scale of 7mm=1' –
That is wrong.
The American O-scale is 1:48; 1' equates ¼" = 6,35 mm. The cars are in original 35' long.
(The British O-scale is 1:43,5; 1' equates 7 mm)
For more information about scale and gauge see
Bachmann Message Board - FAQ's - On30 - What is On30? and
National Model Railroad Association NMRA http://www.nmra.org/standards/sandrp/consist.html (http://www.nmra.org/standards/sandrp/consist.html)
Railexpert 8)