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size of garden trains

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size of garden trains
Posted by Bubbles 09 on Sunday, March 7, 2010 10:54 AM

A general question, new comer to the construction world of garden trains, just looking to know, what general deminsions are the trains for a gauge 3, gauge 1 and gauge 0 tracks.

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Posted by cabbage on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 11:17 AM

 The simple answer is : anything you feel like!!! Some people (myself included) run multiple scales on fixed gauge track. But if we take the case of a pure std gauge locomotive then the following applies.

Gauge '3'  205mm high by 105mm wide. 13.5mm scale.

Gauge '1'  152mm high by 78mm wide. 10mm scale.

Gauge '0'  106mm high by 55mm wide. 7mm scale.

Strangely enough it is often CHEAPER to build in the bigger scales than the smaller scales...

 regards

 ralph

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