What are you buying this Month?

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AemJaY1 said:
wow @Smudge617 thank you! will check the Rapido and Atlas one out. <3

i have to say, i like the rapido one.
will contact my canadian dealer (Otter valley) maybe they have one and send them over the pond. my GPR9 is also from otter valley :)

thnx for the links.

UPDATE:

ok i think i should really stop ordering stuff in the early mornings ahahaha. i was login in in my customer account from otter valley. well what should i say ahahahaha. i have the GMD-1 already in pre order :rolleyes: ... well i guess i should have a look into all my accounts, whats sitting there xD
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I've bought a few locos from Otter Valley, he has stuff I can't find elsewhere.
 


My other July order came in late yesterday. Got some awesome deals on these bulkhead flat cars via Walthers' summer sale. This will more than double my fleet of these cars. Got one more item for the layout itself, but it's on backorder. :confused:

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the space for the railroad would maybe not be the problem. but i think my girlfriend would not be happy if i start this project before the house :D
 
never saw S Scale o.O
where in the world is this "common" ?

there is a proper garden version of a Big Boy in switzerland. iam still in the hunt to see this engine, but they only let her run some days in the year. but this big boy is really massive and if iam remembering correctly all self build!
 
Smudge617 said:
I get it, I made a mistake it's gauge 1

G scale, FYI, is 1:22.5

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This diagram has technical mistakes in it. Like i said, there is no such thing as "G scale", the bottom part gives you clues, even though it still has the same mistake. "G" is just simply a gauge between tracks; 45mm. So everything that can run on that gauge tracks is identified as G gauge (mistakenly called "scale"). Scale is a mathematical term. The Marklin Big Boy is scaled down 32 times, or 1-32nd or simply live size divided by 32 from the real thing. Reffered to as 1 gauge, it represents standard gauge equipment scaled down 32 times. Few other high end manufacturers create such equipment, and the prices are high. Your LGB stuff was originally a narrow gauge rail equipment running on 1000mm gauge tracks. But in the US everything was turned upside down with clients wanting standard size locomotives running on narrow gauge tracks.
 
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AemJaY1 said:
never saw S Scale o_O
where in the world is this "common" ?

there is a proper garden version of a Big Boy in switzerland. iam still in the hunt to see this engine, but they only let her run some days in the year. but this big boy is really massive and if iam remembering correctly all self build!
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The S gauge is very popular with older generation of American modelers. Think "half of 1 gauge". There are new models in that scale (1:64), and they are very nice and well detailed. It seems that the S gauge is becoming more popular as the years go by.
 


KriegslokBR52 said:
This diagram has technical mistakes in it. Like i said, there is no such thing as "G scale", the bottom part gives you clues, even though it still has the same mistake. "G" is just simply a gauge between tracks; 45mm. So everything that can run on that gauge tracks is identified as G gauge (mistakenly called "scale"). Scale is a mathematical term. The Marklin Big Boy is scaled down 32 times, or 1-32nd or simply live size divided by 32 from the real thing. Reffered to as 1 gauge, it represents standard gauge equipment scaled down 32 times. Few other high end manufacturers create such equipment, and the prices are high. Your LGB stuff was originally a narrow gauge rail equipment running on 1000mm gauge tracks. But in the US everything was turned upside down with clients wanting standard size locomotives running on narrow gauge tracks.
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I'm not going to argue over a scale/gauge that may, or may not, exist depending on which side of the ocean you live.
 
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