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If you want to join the fun, I can't see why you can't go 32mm for this project Mr B.Mr. Bond of the DVLR:78910 wrote:I am thinking of making up a "Living section". As I'd like to have a go at Bonsai it would be a shallow tray
It would have to be 45mm gauge though so I am struggling to justify it
At home it could be a display populated with re-gaugeable stock??
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I thought the whole concept of a modular layout was that individual elements could be joined together to create a single entity (which wouldn't really be possible with a 45mm gauge module amongst a host of 32mm elements?) - or am I missing something here??it would be even nicer to do a 45mm gauge one.
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Zach, why not build a dual gauge module?
That way you could connect use it in either a 32mm layout or a 45mm one if that appeared in the future. It seems to be that 32mm is more popular and therefore more likely to get off the ground first, there is no reason why, spured on by the sucess of a 32mm version a 45mm won't appear later?
That way you could connect use it in either a 32mm layout or a 45mm one if that appeared in the future. It seems to be that 32mm is more popular and therefore more likely to get off the ground first, there is no reason why, spured on by the sucess of a 32mm version a 45mm won't appear later?
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The usual for three foot gauge was 10' between centres - 160mm in SM45. 2'6" and 3' gauge stock runs anywhere up to 8'2" wide (130mm) Zillertalbahn coaches on the W&LLR, so 150mm might be cutting it a bit fine for Mr V Isle, and even then Tranny Wagons will be a problem..
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Traffic Pattern? What pattern? Spuds out; grain in, but cattle, sheep and passengers are a lot less predictable.
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not unless your modeling a passing loop because I'd have thought most modules would be single track as that it more normal in narrow gauge! If the 45mm version had the rail nearest the front in the same position I see no reason why dual gauge modules couldn't used on either layout.
Only thing is... is the rail a similar profile between 32 & 45?
Only thing is... is the rail a similar profile between 32 & 45?
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