HO TRACK WIDTH INQUIRY

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Anonymous

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HO TRACK WIDTH INQUIRY

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 8, 2002 12:04 PM

Greetings. A quick trivia question from someone with no experience with model trains. WHAT is the width, in milimeters, between the tracks in HO
scale?? (Obviously we don't have a sample of HO track handy or we'd measure it ourselves.) We purchased 3 sets of toy trains during a close-out sale at KB toys for our 5-year-old son. The sets came with their own track ... molded in plastic.
We're working on a small layout and rather than taking our dremel tool to the existing toy track and modifying it for a pair of scratch-built
bridges, we were hoping that we could add some conventional HO scale track to supplement the toy set's track. Any assistance would be appreicated. - Eric

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thirdrail1

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January 2001
From: Niue
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Posted by thirdrail1 on Tuesday, January 8, 2002 3:35 PM

The distance between tracks can be any width in any scale, but if you mean the distance between RAILS in one track, it is 16.5 MM in HO scale.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 9, 2002 2:32 AM

Hi Gregg,
Acknowledged. Thank you.
Eric

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