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Any O 2-Rail Folks Out There?

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, February 22, 2018 4:47 AM

I guess it depends on what you mean by challenge.

O scale 2-rail runs on DC power so the wiring is no big deal, unless you plan on setting up blocks.

Two issues are cost and space.

Check out this link for a discussion of O scale 2-rail, pro and con.

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/162032.aspx

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Thursday, February 22, 2018 4:08 AM

Lots of encouragement over in toy trains but no O 2-railers (mostly O 3 and S). Since so few folks are O 2-rail and new locomotives are scarce as I am told in this thread, I may do this just because it would be fairly unique and a real challenge. Thanks for all the advice!

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 9:53 PM

tankcarsrule

What's the story on the tank car you use in your icon?

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My wife gave it to me.

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Posted by tankcarsrule on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 8:26 PM

What's the story on the tank car you use in your icon?

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Posted by zstripe on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 7:26 PM

Classic Toy Trains link:

http://ctt.trains.com/

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Posted by DSchmitt on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 4:53 PM

This is a bad time for 2 rail O scale US/Canadian prototypes.  New locomotives are currently pratically non existant.  The situation was better in the past but  used 2 rail locos are hard to find.  The situation with 2 rail freight cars is better and many 3 rail cars are fairly easy to convert.  

Group promoting 2 rail O scale

http://www.oscalekings.org/

Northwest Shortline http://www.nwsl.com/ is the only company (that I know of) in the US offering drive units for 2 rail O scale.  There are some companies in England also. 

The old timers often converted 3 rail locos to 2 rail by changing the wheels and wiring and that is probably an option for some locos. 

If you are going to the trouble of 1/48 scale 2 rail you might want to consider consider proto48   http://www.proto48.org/ which uses corectly gauged track and finer standard wheels.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 4:10 PM

rrinker

 Well I'd wager scale O 2-rail is more appropriate to here, CTT is more tinplate and hi-rail. Scale O is kind of down there on the list of popular scales, but surely SOMEONE here uses it. 

                               --Randy

 

 

I posted over there so I'll see if anyone responds. One of our hobby shop employees has this scale and he only knows of one more person in the city. Guess that's one of the things that captures my interest.

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Posted by rrinker on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 3:20 PM

 Well I'd wager scale O 2-rail is more appropriate to here, CTT is more tinplate and hi-rail. Scale O is kind of down there on the list of popular scales, but surely SOMEONE here uses it. 

                               --Randy

 


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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 3:12 PM

Excellent thanks.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 3:09 PM

Try your qestion over in the Classic Toy Train forum, that's where all things "O" are going on.

Mike.

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Any O 2-Rail Folks Out There?
Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 2:27 PM

Saw a nice O 2-rail locomotive and track today at Maritime Hobbies and Crafts. Going to buy an Atlas O 2-rail track layout, probably start with Twin Cities Central. Anyone use this or any of the other Atlas complete O 2-rail layouts?

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