Rhubarb Loop
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Hello,
I hope this is the right place to ask this question, but with Martin Wynne being the main peddler of the OO-SF standard I’m hoping it will be?!
I’ve been collecting various bits of American (Maine Central) and German (GDR Deutsche Reichsbahn) N Scale over the past couple of years as a diversion from my usual stagnated 2mm Finescale modelling. My model railway plans always end up being too ambitious and I move on to pondering something else before making any real progress. However, for the past 6 months I’ve been getting very close to coming up with something that feels like it might go somewhere.
Thunderbird II as I’ve dubbed will be a 1500mm long “vicarage study” proscenium arch box with fold out 750mm staging train tables roughly 640mm in diameter at each end. The box will be able to take various modules, perhaps 2mm Finescale, perhaps American N, etc. The idea being that I’m constrained by the 1500mm length, so it can’t get out of hand, and when I suddenly find myself more excited by say the Southern’s withered arm, than the Reichsbahn in Thüringen, I can swap the module out and dabble with that project for a while.
Anyway, I digress. I was originally intending to keep it simple and not bog myself down like I have done in 2mm Finescale and use Peco Code 55. However, while I think it doesn’t look too bad “in the flesh” I’ve noticed it’s not a patch on Code 40 handbuilt track in photographs. Most importantly perhaps, I don’t like the clunk / drop as the wheels pass over the nose/frog.
I really don’t want to get distracted by fs160. I’d love to be able to run newer RTR Atlas / Fleischmann etc pretty much out of the box, with just the odd bad example wheels having to be tinkered with.
As far as I can tell the European FiNeScale N is just hand built track NEM standards using Code 40 rail? I was wondering, has anyone considered adopting the OO-SF approach of narrowing the gauge so that even better looking track can be produced with RTR wheels? Is there a mathematical approach to working this out based on NMRA / NEM wheel standards, or so I have to just build something and see if it will work?
I’d love to hear anyone’s thoughts!
Cheers,
Alex
I hope this is the right place to ask this question, but with Martin Wynne being the main peddler of the OO-SF standard I’m hoping it will be?!
I’ve been collecting various bits of American (Maine Central) and German (GDR Deutsche Reichsbahn) N Scale over the past couple of years as a diversion from my usual stagnated 2mm Finescale modelling. My model railway plans always end up being too ambitious and I move on to pondering something else before making any real progress. However, for the past 6 months I’ve been getting very close to coming up with something that feels like it might go somewhere.
Thunderbird II as I’ve dubbed will be a 1500mm long “vicarage study” proscenium arch box with fold out 750mm staging train tables roughly 640mm in diameter at each end. The box will be able to take various modules, perhaps 2mm Finescale, perhaps American N, etc. The idea being that I’m constrained by the 1500mm length, so it can’t get out of hand, and when I suddenly find myself more excited by say the Southern’s withered arm, than the Reichsbahn in Thüringen, I can swap the module out and dabble with that project for a while.
Anyway, I digress. I was originally intending to keep it simple and not bog myself down like I have done in 2mm Finescale and use Peco Code 55. However, while I think it doesn’t look too bad “in the flesh” I’ve noticed it’s not a patch on Code 40 handbuilt track in photographs. Most importantly perhaps, I don’t like the clunk / drop as the wheels pass over the nose/frog.
I really don’t want to get distracted by fs160. I’d love to be able to run newer RTR Atlas / Fleischmann etc pretty much out of the box, with just the odd bad example wheels having to be tinkered with.
As far as I can tell the European FiNeScale N is just hand built track NEM standards using Code 40 rail? I was wondering, has anyone considered adopting the OO-SF approach of narrowing the gauge so that even better looking track can be produced with RTR wheels? Is there a mathematical approach to working this out based on NMRA / NEM wheel standards, or so I have to just build something and see if it will work?
I’d love to hear anyone’s thoughts!
Cheers,
Alex
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