New Member from Dorset UK

[Chris Vernell]

Take a look here -

7 1/4" Garrett - Steam Workshop Services

Here we have a little used and fairly huge, 7 1/4" gauge Thomas II Garrett. Based upon the Thomas II basic design and format, although the valve gear has

www.steamworkshop.co.uk

Hmmm ... if I knock down all the backyard fences in the neighbourhood, I might be able to build a line for one of those

 

[korm kormsen]

i love these beasts.

but why do we dare, to call ourselves large scalers or Grossbahner?

 

[David1226]

What I like about 7.25” is that you can sit in it if it is a 2ft prototype of suitable size or with a tender. This beuty being such a beast, very desirable. I believe in the USA they have a different gauge 7.5”?

Having spent some time talking to a 7 1/2 inch owner at a model railway exhibition at The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee, a few years ago. He was telling me that in the US, half the country runs 7 1/2, the other half runs 7 1/4, that’s why it makes organising a national event next to impossible.

David