justme igor
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I was building in prototypical p-32, however this is not going to fit the bill, sort of speak.
For the loco's i would like to have, with the room i have, it is simply not possible to go even near those dimensions.
Minimum radii is 3 meters, max i can do is 8 meter radii, but it will be 5 meter radii(oke will be six?)
There will be 3 loops in my garden layout, one loop is special for the bigger loco's!!!, those will go around the house and can only drive on the outsides of the garden.
Outer loop: AA20, big boy, challenger, red devil ect.
Inner loops all smaller but incl the flying Scotsman.
But the smaller ones will run also on the outer loop, this means turnouts crossings ect.
Some fiddle yards and for storage a trestle.
I read on a other topic that between the stock rail and the guard rail is a gap of 3 to even 4!!mm(brand dependent)
In between the stock rail and the points also?
And the gaps by the frog between the wing rail and the point rail is also 3 to 4 mm gap.
I was like: WHAAAT?
What would you suggest to keep as gap?
Mimic:
Prototypical: not to do when it comes to drive a loco(out of my league and out of what i can afford or want).
G1mra: to small for what i want.
Nmra standards: i can get away with it for my bigger loco's, but there will be probably trouble ahead.
Lgb or similar standards.
Or grandfathers "all around big gap" standards?
Combine nmra with lgb/similair gaps?
(thanks to
Greg Elmassian
for fine tuning on your site)
What would you suggest for my scale 1:32, according for the gap?
And any suggestions about the back to back flange would be welcome aswel.
I have been experimenting with back to back flange 42mm and with a flange thickness of 1 mm, this works perfect with one(1) boogie on a prototypical scale turnout(1:8-1:10), but now a 5 or a 6 wheeler non articulated frame loco.... let alone the AA20 a 7 wheeler?
As you already tasted, i overthink to much and regarding this topic/subject i am really swimming in the dark for the measurements, what to do???
For technical execution....oh man just wait, start to drool now and lick your fingers, you aint see nothing yet....
Any advice is and will be very appreciated.
With best regards Igor.
For the loco's i would like to have, with the room i have, it is simply not possible to go even near those dimensions.
Minimum radii is 3 meters, max i can do is 8 meter radii, but it will be 5 meter radii(oke will be six?)
There will be 3 loops in my garden layout, one loop is special for the bigger loco's!!!, those will go around the house and can only drive on the outsides of the garden.
Outer loop: AA20, big boy, challenger, red devil ect.
Inner loops all smaller but incl the flying Scotsman.
But the smaller ones will run also on the outer loop, this means turnouts crossings ect.
Some fiddle yards and for storage a trestle.
I read on a other topic that between the stock rail and the guard rail is a gap of 3 to even 4!!mm(brand dependent)
In between the stock rail and the points also?
And the gaps by the frog between the wing rail and the point rail is also 3 to 4 mm gap.
I was like: WHAAAT?
What would you suggest to keep as gap?
Mimic:
Prototypical: not to do when it comes to drive a loco(out of my league and out of what i can afford or want).
G1mra: to small for what i want.
Nmra standards: i can get away with it for my bigger loco's, but there will be probably trouble ahead.
Lgb or similar standards.
Or grandfathers "all around big gap" standards?
Combine nmra with lgb/similair gaps?
(thanks to
Greg Elmassian
for fine tuning on your site)What would you suggest for my scale 1:32, according for the gap?
And any suggestions about the back to back flange would be welcome aswel.
I have been experimenting with back to back flange 42mm and with a flange thickness of 1 mm, this works perfect with one(1) boogie on a prototypical scale turnout(1:8-1:10), but now a 5 or a 6 wheeler non articulated frame loco.... let alone the AA20 a 7 wheeler?
As you already tasted, i overthink to much and regarding this topic/subject i am really swimming in the dark for the measurements, what to do???
For technical execution....oh man just wait, start to drool now and lick your fingers, you aint see nothing yet....
Any advice is and will be very appreciated.
With best regards Igor.
