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Help identifying Scale - track is just less than HO width (.625") Track and electrical/DCC
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New member 21 posts sonofLWVmodeler New member 21 posts
sonofLWVmodeler

I came across some model freight trains of my late father. wheel width is a little too narrow to run on HO, but I found track that they do match, and it is just less than the HO width of .625 (see pic). I checked web and can't find a standard scale/gauge that matches. Any suggestions?

As always, thanks in advance for review and comment. This is a very helpful forum for newbie like me
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maclatchymr Active Member 46 posts
maclatchymr

Possibly Sn3

The track proportions in your photo and your description of slightly less than HO gauge suggest Sn3 (S scale 3 foot gauge), S Scale has a proportion of 1:64th, or 3/16 of an inch to the foot. If it is Sn3, the track will be 0.5625" (9/16") actual gauge, inside to inside.

Sn3 is a specialized scale/gauge combination used by narrow gauge modellers, and has a small but dedicated following. I used to be active in it.

HTH,

Mike MacLatchy
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wp8thsub MRH Author 3,348 posts
wp8thsub

Sn3

The length of the ties vs the gauge is a giveaway.  It looks the the old Tomalco Sn3 track that was manufactured by Micro Engineering.

Rob Spangler MRH Blog
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AzBaja Prolific poster 2,096 posts
AzBaja

.625 is like 5/8 of an

.625 is like 5/8 of an inch...

 

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Ken Rice Super User 5,947 posts
Ken Rice

Ruler shows a little over 17/32

A visual estimate off the ruler in the picture on the first post puts the track gauge a little over 17/32, or 0.53125, so 0.5625 is probably right.  It certainly looks like narrow gauge track, and Sn3 is the closest scale and gauge to that measurement.

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Janet N Prolific poster 1,180 posts
Janet N

How about a photo of some of the rolling stock?

If you posted a photo of the locomotive and of the various rolling stock, especially next to a ruler, it would give everyone a better chance at identifying what scale and gauge those trains and track are.

Based on this,  I think that in the morning I will go stick a piece of paper denoting the proper scale in each of my boxes of Lionel  O27 and N scale trains that are in my storage room.  Make it a little easier on my grandson when he has to clean out all my crap after I shuffle off the mortal coil.

After all, I had to pick up all his stuff when he was little.  It's only fair he has to pick up after me in the future.  But I'll be a sport and label the mysterious stuff.  



Janet N.
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ianm42 Regular poster 157 posts
ianm42

One Day ...

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Lancaster Central RR Frequent poster 574 posts
Lancaster Central RR

My dad ^ LOL.

He used to say that all the time. I was thinking  “holy cow that is a lot of crap to get rid of when you’re gone”. I really don’t need any of the stuff he has saved up for decades and I don’t have any space in my house if I did. 

Lancaster Central Railroad &

Philadelphia & Baltimore Central RR &

Lancaster, Oxford & Southern Transportation Co. 

Shawn H. , modeling 1980 in Lancaster county, PA - alternative history of local  railroads. 
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packnrat Frequent poster 758 posts
packnrat

kids

for those with kids - grand -great grand kids. be happy you have them, to dump all your things into the trash.

when i die, there is no family. just some local junkies to clean out my place.
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