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Large Scale Railroad Survey - What are you using?

D M W

D M W

E N W Z

I have no layout here in my apartment, if I did have a layout, D and F would be of great interest. For the short stretches of track there are, E works fine.

What I’d like to have is a layout with switching opportunities & some kind of carry-with-you controller would be good for that.

With having autism and a couple endocrine and mitochondrial diseases, sound is too much, even took the speakers out of all but one or two of the several Bachmann Big Haulers bought from a disability settlement.
Kept it/them to run at model train club and/or a friend’s outdoor layout. In several of the 4-6-0 I use the 9v battery for the sound system for on-board headlight, or at least class light, power. Which came in handy a couple nights at Mike’s when the track power died in the dark, the train was immediately locatable by all the class/marker lamps PRR used and the track-powered headlight told us when track power was restored.

Sound with the ability to simply turn it off as desired/needed is welcome idea.

Z - about that, the other G scale variation I do is Gn15, G scale with HO track and wheels/mechanisms to represent 15inch and 18inch gauge farm, mining, industrial, trams: available HO systems work fine for it.

F, M, “Z” with “Z” being 1:29 which is among the most popular scales that you omitted. If you don’t differentiate by scale, W and Y are the same thing.

From Wikipedia:

From Wikipedia

Z scale is one of the smallest commercially available model railway scales (1:220), with a track gauge of 6.5 mm / 0.256 in. Introduced by Märklin in 1972.

My own are:

F scale

Bachmann in both G and F

Accucraft in 1:24 and F

LGB, Aristocraft and Bachmann rubber scales

Z, as I explain at train shows and Vermont Flower Shows where the Vermont Garden Railway usually displays, when asked what scale we are running today:

Z ist zo klein you can’t hardly Zee it!

N is no-see ems…

HO = Half Observable.

S = Sometimes Observable

O = Observable

G - GOSH I can see it!

(0r Garden Scale, as we see today)

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Don Howard

Webmaster

My letters are: A E L V W

Regards, David Meashey

F L W

Bruce Chandler said:

YMMV. (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)

DMZ (1:20 scale). But is there any practical difference between Gauge 1 and G Gauge? I mean 44.45 mm vs 45 mm? …

Gauge 1 / Spur 1 are nearly identical twins in Scale 1:32

the infamous “G” was introduced by LGB and stood for “big”, “tall”(“gross” in German) and for “Garden” for their more or less 1:22.5 scaled narrow gauge trains. but it did not stand for any gauge or scale. standard gauge in “G” would be 64mm. (almost, what the Brits call “Gauge 3”)

D F L W/Z (1:20.3)

FNW

“F” often used with Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), so this mode going from zero to max, max to zero could be considered digital rather than analog.

-Ted

BDFLW

DELW

Tommy

Rio Gracie

BDLZ Z=Fn3 1:20.3

E. N W but would like to change to battery with radio control. Also no steam only modern 4 axle diesels, but maybe an F7 if one come available in the scheme I want

A, D, E, N, W

Thanks to everyone who took part in this survey which is now closed. We will publish the results shortly.

Regards

Peter Lucas

MyLocoSound