What scale would be N or Z scale in a G gauge world? Modeling a backyard layout in G gauge

[Anonymous]

Imagine that you have a modle house on your G gauge pike and that lilitputen house has what else....A backyard railroad composed of N or Z gauge trains!

Or you want to model a hobby shop that has trains on display in the window...So you put on display N or Z gauge trains in the window or running in a loop?

Would N be then Standerd gauge in G land? Would Z be O scale?

 

 

[vsmith]

Actually Z would be more like 3 1/2" ride-on in G scale, N would be more like 7 1/2" ride-on scales, and both have been done as such.

I have seen On30 used as Carnival type trains also...

[ttrigg]

Sam;

If you will go back through some older postings (about a year ago or so) You will find a little posting from me when I did this:

This was a garden railroad in my garden railroad.  The photo shows "Z" scale cars in the backyard of Mr. Douglas Flatbottom, CEO, Rosebud Falls Scenic Rail Ways
It can most definitely be done, practicality of it outside is a different story.  In my case as the dogs went running through town (real dogs, scale town) their fur just latched onto the Z scale people, cars, and track. The GRR inside my GRR was all over the garden and lawn,  All of the Z scale people were "combed out of dog tails".  After looking for several days I found the last piece of track with the lawn mower.  A "scale layout" inside an indoor layout would be very feasible, as there are no weather concerns, UV Light issues, pieces being snatched by dog fur, etc.

[trainboy414]

a while back in garden railways the C&A railway had a z sacle garden railway.

[Gandy Dancer]

Would N be then Standerd gauge in G land? Would Z be O scale?

It would depend largely on what Scale your G-gauge represents!

[vsmith]

Sam;

If you will go back through some older postings (about a year ago or so) You will find a little posting from me when I did this:

This was a garden railroad in my garden railroad.  The photo shows "Z" scale cars in the backyard of Mr. Douglas Flatbottom, CEO, Rosebud Falls Scenic Rail Ways
It can most definitely be done, practicality of it outside is a different story.  In my case as the dogs went running through town (real dogs, scale town) their fur just latched onto the Z scale people, cars, and track. The GRR inside my GRR was all over the garden and lawn,  All of the Z scale people were "combed out of dog tails".  After looking for several days I found the last piece of track with the lawn mower.  A "scale layout" inside an indoor layout would be very feasible, as there are no weather concerns, UV Light issues, pieces being snatched by dog fur, etc.

One way you could consider would be to model the Z track and surrounding "garden"  on a small plywood panel just like a small indoor layout that could be set down in a 'backyard" when your operating, then when you done for the day, just pick up the whole "garden RR" and store it inside.

 

I have also seen somewhere where someone with deep pockets have one those tiny 1/400 scale train layouts set up as a operating model train layout inside a large scale layout. It looked like an O gauge tabletop layout.

[Anonymous]

It Looks like in that picture that Z is still very large in G gauge land bigger then even standred gauge

[kstrong]

If you divide the scale ratio of the larger trains by the scale ratio of the smaller trains, you get the scales relative to one another.

For example G = 1:22 (for simplicity sake)
Z=1:220

So, 22/220 = .10, or 1/10. So in G scale, a Z scale train would represent a 1:10 model. (close to 1" scale trains 1:12)

N scale is 1:160, so 22/160 = .1375, which works out to roughly 1:7 (close to 1.5" scale trains 1:8)

In 1:29 - Z scale would be 1:8, N scale would be 1:5.

Later,

K

[vsmith]

Thats nice work Kevin, too bad its doesnt mean much to me.

Never was to good with them ratios

So what yer saying is that Z would actually closer represent 7 1/2" guage ride-on. and N would be closer to 12" guage ride-on  or possibly 15-18" industrial lines