So, this could be ok then… just learned many other locos seem to have “short” doors.
Regards, Greg
The door stands 2 15/16 inches
That puts the door right at 5’ tall in the 1:1 world.
This is one of my favorite examples of tiny cabs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTtncKnS9k
Love the “1941” profile pic BTW.
Alrighty then! I would be ducking also at 6’3"
5’ 9" door openings on models of wooden NG boxcars always bothered me but it’s true, some prototypes had 5’ 9" doors and only 6’ 1" headroom inside.
Walt
Even the doors on the Uintah mallets were barely over 5’ tall. (5’ 3" give or take, according to the drawings in Bender’s “Uintah Railway.”) And those were the largest steam locos built for US narrow gauge railroads.
The door on Bachmann’s Heisler scales to 5’ 8".
Later.
K
If you want to buy scale models , you must pay scale price .
Stand a Hartford carriage alongside Bachmann carriages and you will see what I mean .
But why the navel gazing ? If you like the look of a model and can afford it , why not buy it and enjoy life ?.
The very basis of our hobby , the track , is by no means accurate , scale curves are difficult to contain ,and so on .
How many of you run unsignalled trains ?
So wossa 1/24 scale doorway on a 1/20.3 to bother about ?
At least the driver has a cab to stand in .
Mike M
Something that I think most might be overlooking is that people today are taller then a couple generations ago. As an example I have an antique double bed in our guest room. The matress is 5"9" long and anyone over then about 5’5 is not going to be confortable in such a bed. Later the standard size of a mattress increased to 72" then 75" (3/4 size) and today mattresses are 80" long. CLearly my old bed is out of Scale 
Stan Ames
Stan Ames said:
Something that I think most might be overlooking is that people today are taller then a couple generations ago. As an example I have an antique double bed in our guest room. The matress is 5"9" long and anyone over then about 5'5 is not going to be confortable in such a bed. Later the standard size of a mattress increased to 72" then 75" (3/4 size) and today mattresses are 80" long. CLearly my old bed is out of Scale :)Stan Ames
'Stroo thing. I have a shell jacket that was formerly owned by a corporal in the Confederate States of America who was a ‘bonny well-set-up’ gentleman. The chest measurement is barely 35 inches - I am 45 inches.
We had this conversation at home a while back, and I stood in front of a decorated brick wall where my grandfather had soot in 1943. I remember him as having big strong hands and good shoulders, and towering over me, but I am only 5’ 11", and he would just have cleared the top of my nose.
People in the western sphere of influence ARE between 7 and 11 percent taller than they were in 1900, but a whopping 205 heavier.
tac
www.ovgrs.org
And on the west coast, a king size mallet is 84" long. (California King as opposed to East Coast King)
West coast people are taller?
Well, looks like the cab is plausible, as the Mythbusters would say.
Greg
Tim,
Just wave your wand over it and turn it into standard gauge. That’s what I did with my Sumpter Valley mallet.
Now you can use a 1/29 or 1/32 or 1/22.5 or 1/24 figure.