[modeleng] Re: Track guage

  • From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:42:13 -0800 (PST)

Harry, you build a 3.5 track and I'll be GLAD to help lay track and drive 
spikes, etc.

Al


--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Harry Wade <hww@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Harry Wade <hww@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Track guage
> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 1:23 PM
> In a perfect world I would prefer 3.5"ga, for all the
> usual reasons, and the fact that there were (are) so many
> attractive designs and castings available for 3.5"ga. 
> I have always been perplexed though by why there was never a
> 57XX Pannier design published in 3.5"ga, condsidering
> the popularity of both the locomotive and the gauge.
> 
> However, in the imperfect world in which I live the only
> track facilities anywhere within reasonable driving distance
> are 7.5"ga., hence my current project is 7.5"ga. 
> Whether that one will ever be followed by another in
> 7.5"ga I don't know, the next one will be in
> 3.5"ga and I'll worry about where to run it when
> the time comes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Harry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >For those of you that build or run locomotives, what
> guage(s) do you prefer?
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