Utility railcar, scratch build (1:28 approx.)

[tac foley]

Do you not have any compadres over the border? If not, you will be the first Canadian I've ever met like that. On this forum we have Sean and Dan, both over there - give them a call!

Living here in UK has its own hazards when buying small metal components like these. Trackside Details and the other one, Precision Scale, are both rightly renowned for the incredible quality of their wares, but ordering stuff from them is fraught with woe.

A US$24 order became £78 here - why? Because the words 'lost wax castings' were mentioned, that HMRC therefore classed them as 'jewelry'.......

 

[tac foley]

Thanks for this. I never really understood all the various scales and dimensions (until now!).

This MIGHT help - but on the other paw, it might not - give it a whirl, and we'll resplone to any querations you might [well] have -

Fer'instance - THIS is one of my Gauge 1 locomotives, from Aster, in Japan. Gauge 1, running on 45mm gauge track, is usually 1/32nd scale, although there is a growing move toward 10mm to the foot - the mix of metric and imperial designations is common in the model railway world.



and here it is compared with the other common scale - please note that the maker of THIS illustration screwed up - it is NOT G scale, but Gauge 1 and 1:32 scale.........



...and in action a few years ago - the usual consist is ten cars, but I only had the two-seater with me that day, so five is all you get...

Later on, there's the more usual ten-car set.......

Here's Accucraft's iconic 'Royal Hudson' 2860, the 1939 Royal Train loco, almost a yard long, meths-fired and manually-operated. Sadly, nobody makes a Gauge 1 model of the sole running Hudson #2816, that made an epic 10,000 mile journey from North Vancouver to Mexico City and back over four months last year....