New to G gauge

Nicholas said:
I clicked on the link you provided and that cleared up a lot. What is the name of the book this came from? This message is for maxi-model.
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There is no book involved in my link, just a website with general garden railway information.

The thing to remember here is to forget about predetermined gauge/scale combinations in this part of the model railway hobby. Unless you are going the "finescale" route where there are accepted predetermined scale/track gauge and rail height combinations. Depending on your preferences, what your main priority is settling on a track "system" that will best suit the subjects/products you want to run. Your starting point in the US should be something that has the rails gauged at 45 mm given what you already own and what the bulk of product is made to run on there in a wide range of scales. Max.
 
 
Good, sound advise Greg. I may not agree word for word, but as you say, we all differ. It is a good grounding for our Nicholas
 
And I am open to correction and suggestions... that stuff is up there to help others... I have to periodically go through the pages to update as vendors come and go.

For example, I'm not sure if you can still get the nickel-plated LGB track new (i.e. still manufactured)... and apparently Train Line 45 does make it.

What helped me most when I started was to resist the impulse to just buy stuff, and think it through. I read a lot of forums, and listened to all the people that said "If I had to do it over, I would have ..... " that's where I started learning pitfalls, and ways to avoid "painting myself into a corner"...

Regards, Greg
 
I very much agree with your last paragraph,
 
The problem we seem to have made for ourselves is the idea of scales. 45mm is about as near as dammit 13/4 inches and LGB prior to being bought by marklin based their products with some exceptions on metre gauge systems of which there was a lot in Europe and 1/22.5 is very close to metre gauge at 45mm. 1/20 gets close to British Empire 3ft on 45mm, but the cock up seems to be you Americans using 45mm to run 1/29 or 1/32, where the hell does that come from? At least with American outline 45mm track you get more ties(sleepers) to the foot, What a tangled web we weave ourselves, do you want to learn the rules of Cricket!
 
With great respect - were talking track for new-comers here.
 
maxi-model said:
Apparently Bachmann's steel alloy track is the one 45 mm track system that is not compatible with any of the other code 332 brass "compatibles" :mad:
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Well, I found a way to fix that. Basically, you take out the metal joining tounge from the steel track, and use ordinary rail joiners. I inherited some of this track, and use it in my train shed on the storage tracks.
 
chasaitch said:
1/20 gets close to British Empire 3ft on 45mm, but the cock up seems to be you Americans using 45mm to run 1/29 or 1/32, where the hell does that come from? At least with American outline 45mm track you get more ties(sleepers) to the foot, What a tangled web we weave ourselves, do you want to learn the rules of Cricket!
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The British Empire adopted the so-called Cape Gauge of 3ft 6in, not 3 feet.

45mm track is the correct gauge for Gauge 1 [in either 1/32nd or 10mm scales].

1/29th was the scale 'invented' by Lewis Polk of Aristocraft to give his trains the so-called 'WOW!!' factor - his own words. Some cynics also noted that it made designing models for this new scale a whole lot easier than in 1/32nd scale, as the new scale of 1/29th is exactly three times larger than H0 scale, making it easy to use the many thousands of existing models and their scale drawings.

tac
 
tac foley said:
The British Empire adopted the so-called Cape Gauge of 3ft 6in, not 3 feet.

45mm track is the correct gauge for Gauge 1 [in either 1/32nd or 10mm scales].

1/29th was the scale 'invented' by Lewis Polk of Aristocraft to give his trains the so-called 'WOW!!' factor - his own words. Some cynics also noted that it made designing models for this new scale a whole lot easier than in 1/32nd scale, as the new scale of 1/29th is exactly three times larger than H0 scale, making it easy to use the many thousands of existing models and their scale drawings.

tac
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Exciting :emo::emo::emo:

I think there are examples of both 3ft and Cape gauge (3ft 6ins) in the locations of the globe that used to be coloured pink.

And yes, 45mm is correct for 1:32 and almost correct (near as dammit) for 10mm:1ft.

I also understood that 1:29 also had the advantage that standard gauge models of that scale were a similar physical size to 1:24 narrow gauge, and thus had a certain amount of interchangability.

But I'm happy running 1:20.3 (15mm:1ft) as that gives me an accurate 3ft narrow gauge with a realistic overhang, and boy, do we love an overhang :cool::cool::cool::cool:
 
Nicholas, as you have read, there are lots of ways of doing things. All with the same end result, your enjoyment. Don't forget that no one is born an expert and everyone makes mistakes. And don't forget 99.9% of people will be helpful, as for the 0.1% left who may point out that the undercarriage of your way on is the wrong shade of muck colour, you can ignore them with the contempt they deserve!
 
Paul M said:
Nicholas, as you have read, there are lots of ways of doing things. All with the same end result, your enjoyment. Don't forget that no one is born an expert and everyone makes mistakes. And don't forget 99.9% of people will be helpful, as for the 0.1% left who may point out that the undercarriage of your way on is the wrong shade of muck colour, you can ignore them with the contempt they deserve!
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Fortunately I think Nicholas had managed to grab a fair bit of info before we degenerated into the rules of cricket :swear::swear::swear:
 
I'm in Nid!


Nicholas...
Decide what you want to model / run..
Then get a bit of track down. - ANY track..
Run a train.. Did you smile? - Then you have it about right.

Enjoy!
 
Then explain the offside rule!
 
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