Faller

[Matt/Wisc]

Hello all,

I have a question about the Faller E-Train. Is it a "G" scale train that runs on "O" guage track?

Thank you,

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Matt/Wisc

Hello all,

I have a question about the Faller E-Train. Is it a "G" scale train that runs on "O" guage track?

Thank you,

Hi Matt,

If you consider anything between 1:32 and 1:19 as G - yes, then it is "G". [;)][:)][;)]

In a nutshell Faller's e-train was a 1:32 narrow gauge item, the 32mm (O gauge) track represents Meter Gauge in 1:32.

There are quite a few modelers who use it to represent field railways.

BTW "G" is anything that will fit on 45mm track gauge - regardless of scale ratio. Or at least that's the gospel according to "Saint LGB" and a few of their cohorts. It doesn't clarify what scale an item is - not even by approximation - but it is "excellent" marketing!

[Bucksco]

"G Gauge" as oppossed to "G Scale"? [;)]

[TonyWalsham]

Jack,
There is no such thing as "G" gauge.
45mm gauge is, and always has been, #1 gauge. So named by Maerklin over 100 years ago.
It is irrelevant that some wi***o invent a confusing term like "G" gauge.
Why they should attempt to do so I have no idea.

The closest anyone can get to using the letter "G" to describe anything is "G" scale.

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Bucksco

"G Gauge" as oppossed to "G Scale"? [;)]

Well hi there Jack,

Frankly if you and your employer call it "G Gauge" or "G Scale", it's all the same to me i.e. "G - wie Gummi".

The slogan I coined (G - wie Gummi) found a very nice and widespread resonance with the German speaking Large Scale fraternity. If an item has an ill-defined or incorrect scale (or several of them in the same item [;)][:)]) it is termed as being "Gummi-Maßstab" (Rubber scale).

BTW when EPL/LGB produces reasonably accurate scale models of RhB prototypes, I mention that too in my reviews and the comparison charts.

Like this one:


I even noticed that the 30340 RhB C2012 has a new type of brake hose. It only took four years of harping on that item to get results. Slowly but surely, eh!?!

[Bucksco]

We're Listening!

[Capt Bob Johnson]

[The closest anyone can get to using the letter "G" to describe anything is "G" scale.

[TonyWalsham]

No Bob.

I do get to pluck one now and then.

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TonyWalsham

No Bob.

I do get to pluck one now and then.

Hi Tony, [;)][;)]

You too?? Must be a guitar player![;)][:D][:D][:D]

For the non-players: G string, the string on which the wound wire unravels most often. Of course I have no idea if this was the reason to also call the other item "G String".[;)][:D][:D]

[TonyWalsham]

G'day HJ.

The "G" strings I like to play with do not unravel on their own.[;)]

They do not always stay in tune either. Some are downright off key.

Just like some sound systems in our loks.

[Anonymous]

As one 'fallen lady' remared to a querulous guest, "I'm not prone to argue."

Guitars do not have a lock on G strings; violins, violas, cellos, string basses, ukes, banjos, and mandolins have 'em, too, but the pie-anner trumps them all.

Art

[Tom The Brat]

Funny you should mention the cello!

Sometimes, the G string tends to vibrate when it's not supposed to. To stop this, they use a long rubber cylinder. "You put it next to your G string so you don't hear any wolf notes."

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by artschlosser

As one 'fallen lady' remared to a querulous guest, "I'm not prone to argue."

Guitars do not have a lock on G strings; violins, violas, cellos, string basses, ukes, banjos, and mandolins have 'em, too, but the pie-anner trumps them all.

Art

Art,

I suspected as much. [;)][:)] The question is: are the others as cantankerous as the one on the guitar?

[Capt Bob Johnson]

and my wife says I'm a dirty minded old man!

[Anonymous]

RJ, - on the violin they're just as cantankerous as they are wound, too, being the lowest sounding string. I was tuning up my daughters just before a concert and one came apart and we searched frantically for a spare..

But it's the highest on a string bass and I don't remember my brother ever having trouble with one except for cutting into his fingers. He looked weird with fingers taped - on both hands as he also worked in local dance bands pluckin' the thing.

[toenailridgesl]

A few years ago I had a young female patient who had hurt her coccyx (tail bone) after a fall while skating. Noticing that she wearing one of the afore-mentioned garments I warned her that she would have to avoid direct pressure on the area while it healed but it would still be sore for quite a while.
In other words "The thong is gone, but the malady lingers on...."

[TonyWalsham]

1. I don't have a wife to chastise me.
2. I am not a dirty old man. Although an expatriate Brit, I do wash regularly.
3. I'm too old for the other interpretation now.

More is the pity.