For an O gauge layout how wide should a two way road or street be? Thanks
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Bob Nelson
On my Plasticville layout with Plasticville cars: 3 1/2" Of course, Plasticville is not really an exact scale! I would suggest that, unless you are a "scale" person, you place your vehicles on the layout and get a "visual". If it looks good to you then it's right.
I also use roughly 3 1/2" for my road width. I used a piece of 1 x 4 and traced where the roads were going to go, so the roads might be a bit wider, but likely less than 4" Here's a picture of what they look like with lots of vehicles on them:
I'm also a big Plasticville fan traindaddy1 !
J White
Decide what you want in feet and here is a link to a Scale Conversion Calculator
http://jbwid.com/scalcalc.htm
Hope this helps,
Kevin
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
KRM Decide what you want in feet and here is a link to a Scale Conversion Calculator http://jbwid.com/scalcalc.htm Hope this helps, Kevin
And here is a guideline chart.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
most cars are 1/43, it looks better if the road width is increased from scale IMO .
Bill D
model in O. the Western NY and Ontario Railroad
I live in an older residential area and the road in front of my house is 24' wide. Actually, this is too narrow for curbside parking. Nevertheless, I use 6 " for a curb to curb measurement which looks good with the 1/43 vehicles.
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