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 Posted - October 29 2014 : 1:47:57 PM
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I was yet again "window shopping" on eBay and I came across this cool old tinplate freight station posted as being a "Hornby Gauge One". What the heck is gauge one and how does it compare to HO scale?
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Posted - October 29 2014 : 2:23:11 PM
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It looks like another way to say #1 gauge (1.75" between the rails).
This would approximately match a 1:32 scale, so compared to HO it's pretty huge.
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Posted - October 29 2014 : 7:02:21 PM
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In comparison the LGB trains are gauge #1. Here is photo from last weekend, Saturday, at East Rutherford train show. The big crane on the left and the 2 red passenger cars, and the steam engine to their right is # 1 gauge.
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Posted - October 29 2014 : 10:10:14 PM
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As I recall, there's gauge 1, one of the original railroad modeling scales. Below that, you have "Gauge 0", also known as "O scale", and then there's "Half 0 Gauge", also known as "HO scale".
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Posted - October 31 2014 : 10:06:45 AM
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LGB Is gauge 2 or II Frank (LBG also called it gauge G , means Garden train) . scale is 1:22,5 - Erich
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Posted - October 31 2014 : 11:06:08 AM
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Originally posted by Erich - October 31 2014 : 10:06:45 AM
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they forgot OO scale
but it is close to HO (half O) anyway
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Posted - October 31 2014 : 11:47:03 AM
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they forgot OO scale
but it is close to HO (half O) anyway
Originally posted by microbusss - October 31 2014 : 11:06:08 AM
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Posted - October 31 2014 : 11:50:19 AM
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Marklin and MTH makes Gauge #1. Marklin was big in it back in day and still are.
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Posted - October 31 2014 : 12:01:14 PM
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| OO gauge or OO scale (also spelled 00 gauge and 00 scale) model railways are the most popular standard-gauge model railway tracks in the United Kingdom. This track gauge is one of several 4 mm-scale standards (4 mm to 1 foot or 1:76.2) used, but it is the only one to be served by the major manufacturers. Despite this, the OO track gauge of 16.5 mm (0.65 in) is inaccurate for 4 mm scale, and other gauges of the same scale have arisen to better serve the desires of some modellers for greater scale accuracy.
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Posted - November 01 2014 : 12:01:40 AM
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I wonder why #1 gauge never faired well. Is it considered standard gauge?
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Posted - November 01 2014 : 06:04:52 AM
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It´s standard gauge but needs a lot of space and is expensive!
Significantly, it is called "king gauge" ! - Erich
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Posted - November 01 2014 : 08:24:06 AM
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quote:I wonder why #1 gauge never faired well. Is it considered standard gauge?
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - November 01 2014 : 12:01:40 AM
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#1 gauge is standard gauge for 1/32 scale. The same track gauge is used as meter gauge by LGB in 1/22.5 scale. I think there is also equipment scaled to 1/20.8 to treat #1 gauge as 3 foot narrow gauge.
Aristocraft either sells or sold 1/29 scale trains in #1 gauge to approximate standard gauge equipment. It's not quite a match, but the discrepancy isn't very noticeable.
Erich, that's a nice video.
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Posted - November 01 2014 : 09:30:12 AM
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quote: quote:I wonder why #1 gauge never faired well. Is it considered standard gauge?
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - November 01 2014 : 12:01:40 AM
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#1 gauge is standard gauge for 1/32 scale. The same track gauge is used as meter gauge by LGB in 1/22.5 scale. I think there is also equipment scaled to 1/20.8 to treat #1 gauge as 3 foot narrow gauge.
Aristocraft either sells or sold 1/29 scale trains in #1 gauge to approximate standard gauge equipment. It's not quite a match, but the discrepancy isn't very noticeable.
Erich, that's a nice video.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - November 01 2014 : 08:24:06 AM
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Erich ; when I said " In comparison the LGB trains are gauge #1. " I was trying to say what Dom here is saying. A friend, Charlie, Use to run #I gauge on his layout. When He got board he would run some LGB. I guess that is the association I meant in my statement. They both run on the same track. When you run full #1 gauge trains like Lionel's SP 4-6-0, or Aristo craft RS3, those are very large engines. LGB also made more modern trains more to #1 standards, then there much larger scale, than the #1 narrow gauge trains. Still all are considered to be G gauge. The same always has been done through the Standard gauge era. With smaller scale tin plate trains running on #1 track. In HO it was and is done also like with that small tin plate Marx from long, and British OO gauge, ago up to Bachmann's On30 line. I guess Bachmann On30 is the B gauge of HO track, but hasn't gotten the recognition ad LGB did.
* Erich, I tried to say all these words above, and many more would be necessary to fully tell of this comparison, in these few words, "In comparison the LGB trains are gauge #1.
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Posted - November 01 2014 : 09:41:43 AM
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quote:As I recall, there's gauge 1, one of the original railroad modeling scales. Below that, you have "Gauge 0", also known as "O scale", and then there's "Half 0 Gauge", also known as "HO scale".
Originally posted by weekendrailroader - October 29 2014 : 10:10:14 PM
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I believe, when N gauge got it's start back in the '50's, they ( magazine writers ) called it triple 0, or 000, as a progression from 0, 00, and then 000. I don't remember where or when the N designation started to be used. But I do remember reading that they called N triple 0 .
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Posted - November 01 2014 : 6:36:18 PM
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I see the terms "scale" and "gauge" are causing some confusion, as they often do. While often used interchangeably, they are not. "Scale" refers to the size relationship of the model to the prototype, while "gauge" simply refers to the distance between the rails. G gauge and #1 gauge are (almost) the same (.022" different), whereas G scale (1:22.5) and #1 scale (1:32) are not.
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Posted - November 06 2014 : 12:54:17 AM
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quote: quote:As I recall, there's gauge 1, one of the original railroad modeling scales. Below that, you have "Gauge 0", also known as "O scale", and then there's "Half 0 Gauge", also known as "HO scale".
Originally posted by weekendrailroader - October 29 2014 : 10:10:14 PM
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I believe, when N gauge got it's start back in the '50's, they ( magazine writers ) called it triple 0, or 000, as a progression from 0, 00, and then 000. I don't remember where or when the N designation started to be used. But I do remember reading that they called N triple 0 .
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HO/Half O scale was the distance between the rails. Half of "O scale" distance.
N Scale... Nine millimeters between the rails.
That's what I learned.
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