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Delton made a fair number of 1/24 scale roling stock, a semi-accurate C-16, a freelanced gas electric, and other equipment several years ago until financial troubles caused the company to go thru a couple of hands and eventually be picked up by Aristo Craft. There passenger cars were okay, and I'm not sure if they were even of a US prototype, for they had a bit of a Central American NG look to them. Their reefers and box are close approximations of DRG&W equipment, they have a free-lanced side braced low sided "hopper" not unlike a Quincy & Torch Lake" prototype, a nice long DRG&W offset cupula caboose, and some decent flat cars. Their trucks were too long a wheelbase for most applications, but Ryan Co. made accurate DRG&W prototype replacements. Metal wheels are a must, because there wheels sets sucked. too, although Ryan offered metal ones and Delron ones w/ closer to scale flanges, and in correct diameter. Another company made replacement and enhancing hardware for the reefers and the boxcars. Kadee couplers are easily body mounted. Some of the paint schemes were semi-accurate, while some were silly. Strip off the lettering, repaint w/ either Krylon ruddy brown primer or their gray primer, and you'll be close to accurate narrow gauge colors for the era. Microscale makes accurate and complete decals for several NG railroads. By the way, the Ryan trucks were designed as replacements for Delton's and were )are?) avail. w/ and w/out brake beams and shoes, and in 3'6'' and 3' gauge. According to earlier reviews in Garden Railways and Outdoor Railroader, the box cars and reefers were very close to correct dimensions for 1/24 scale. The C-16 was close too and details out nicely, esp if one rearranges the domes and the bell. All the correct appliances are avail. in either resin or brass - generators, air pumps (single and double, pop off valves,blow down cocks, stanchions, marker lites, grabs, etc. Also, MDC flirted w/ 1/24 and introduced a very nice approximation of the short DRG&W center cupula caboose about ten or more years ago. Do not know if still avail. It too needs new trucks and some details, but scales out nicely. Prescision Scale made specific brass details for a number of 1/24 scale items, as did quite a few other manufacturers. I have (temporarily ?) shelved my involvement w/ G scale for the past several years and am not up-to-date on what is / what is not available now. I got into G scale to also compliment model car modeling, and have built a number of rail-powered gas-electrics, rail inspection trucks, an extended bodied '39 Chev rail ambulance, and a little industrial diesel on an MDC "Lil Hustler" motor block. NWSL makes single and dual axle repowering units and they are first rate. There are items avail, from USA Trains, Bachmann and LGB, among others, that can be readily kitbashed into 1/24 narrow gauge equipment, because there was so little uniformity in the sizes of narrow gauge equipment across the US. Frankly I lost interest in G scale because it it is such a mish-mash of scales, and non-scale equipment, and mostly caters to either the toy train market, or at the extreme high bucks and very limited end of the market. It is very satisfying to kitbash and scratchbuild in 1/24 scale, however. (It helps to start out real young because it'll take you a lifetime to complete a roster ! ) I suspect if some manufacturer introduced a product line consisting of 1/24 scale flex track and some turnouts (kit or RTR) w/ truer to scale rail sizes in something other than brass (ugh), there may be a resurgence of interest in this scale. There are several people already making more accurate and smaller code rail, available in bulk to "roll your own". All that is needed is a properly gauged tie strip (w/more typically longer and more widely space ties than the silly LGB- and clones- trackwork) and the same for the turnouts. . .How hard would that be?
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