Running separate scales/gauges

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By Coincidence when steaming at my garden get together last Friday we had a situation when we had three engines running in parallel, each of which varied in scale or gauge.
First up and approaching on the middle road is a gas fired Aristocraft gas fired Micardo at 1:29, followed by a Gauge 3 coal fired BR standard class 5 at 1:22.5 on the outside road (64mm track), and finally an Aster West Country Pacific 1:32 on the inner.
It would be interesting to hear of similar multi scales on your railway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCF5zN3onL0&list=UUjUA51QsBdV8jf0f2fUIfBA
 
The size of Gauge 3 is fairly impressive. It would have been interesting to see a narrrow gauge loco of similar scale next to it ;D
 
Hi Dunnyrail
O gauge as well?
That's sounds like a good idea, I'll ask the wife
OOPS....She just said NO.....!
All the best Trevor
 
I had a G scale layout for ten years and then wanted to expand to include standard gauge trains. I chose Gauge 3 simply because the scale is the same and so I could use all the same buildings (for which I had made resin mouldings), etc. Yes, it can be expensive but I have limited myself to a battery powered Pannier tank kit from GRS and a live steam GWR railmotor which I kit bashed from a GRS autotrailer using Roundhouse components. This has kept the cost down.

I would sum up Gauge 3 by saying that there is little ready to run available and only a few kits from GRS, some of which are of only moderate quality. Therefore most successful Gauge 3 enthusiasts seem to be people with well equipped workshops and machining skills or a big hip pocket.

Mind you, Gauge One would not have been much easier or cheaper. I, and my grandchildren, get much more pleasure from my narrow gauge G scale railway. I prefer to operate a "real" railway with station stops, shunting, etc. rather than just watch trains go round and round.


Regards
Peter Lucas
MyLocoSound
 
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