Hello all,
I have a question about the Faller E-Train. Is it a “G” scale train that runs on “O” guage track?
Thank you,
Hi Matt,
If you consider anything between 1:32 and 1:19 as G - yes, then it is “G”. [;)][:)][;)]
In a nutshell Faller’s e-train was a 1:32 narrow gauge item, the 32mm (O gauge) track represents Meter Gauge in 1:32.
There are quite a few modelers who use it to represent field railways.
BTW “G” is anything that will fit on 45mm track gauge - regardless of scale ratio. Or at least that’s the gospel according to “Saint LGB” and a few of their cohorts. It doesn’t clarify what scale an item is - not even by approximation - but it is “excellent” marketing!
“G Gauge” as oppossed to “G Scale”? [;)]
Jack,
There is no such thing as “G” gauge.
45mm gauge is, and always has been, #1 gauge. So named by Maerklin over 100 years ago.
It is irrelevant that some wi***o invent a confusing term like “G” gauge.
Why they should attempt to do so I have no idea.
The closest anyone can get to using the letter “G” to describe anything is “G” scale.
Well hi there Jack,
Frankly if you and your employer call it “G Gauge” or “G Scale”, it’s all the same to me i.e. “G - wie Gummi”.
The slogan I coined (G - wie Gummi) found a very nice and widespread resonance with the German speaking Large Scale fraternity. If an item has an ill-defined or incorrect scale (or several of them in the same item [;)][:)]) it is termed as being “Gummi-Maßstab” (Rubber scale).
BTW when EPL/LGB produces reasonably accurate scale models of RhB prototypes, I mention that too in my reviews and the comparison charts.
Like this one:
I even noticed that the 30340 RhB C2012 has a new type of brake hose. It only took four years of harping on that item to get results. Slowly but surely, eh!?!
We’re Listening!
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Tony, you seem to forget “G Strings”[^], are you THAT old???[:D][:D]
No Bob.
I do get to pluck one now and then.
Hi Tony, [;)][;)]
You too?? Must be a guitar player![;)][:D][:D][:D]
For the non-players: G string, the string on which the wound wire unravels most often. Of course I have no idea if this was the reason to also call the other item “G String”.[;)][:D][:D]
G’day HJ.
The “G” strings I like to play with do not unravel on their own.[;)]
They do not always stay in tune either. Some are downright off key.
Just like some sound systems in our loks.
As one ‘fallen lady’ remared to a querulous guest, “I’m not prone to argue.”
Guitars do not have a lock on G strings; violins, violas, cellos, string basses, ukes, banjos, and mandolins have 'em, too, but the pie-anner trumps them all.
Art
Funny you should mention the cello!
Sometimes, the G string tends to vibrate when it’s not supposed to. To stop this, they use a long rubber cylinder. “You put it next to your G string so you don’t hear any wolf notes.”
Art,
I suspected as much. [;)][:)] The question is: are the others as cantankerous as the one on the guitar?
and my wife says I’m a dirty minded old man!
RJ, - on the violin they’re just as cantankerous as they are wound, too, being the lowest sounding string. I was tuning up my daughters just before a concert and one came apart and we searched frantically for a spare…
But it’s the highest on a string bass and I don’t remember my brother ever having trouble with one except for cutting into his fingers. He looked weird with fingers taped - on both hands as he also worked in local dance bands pluckin’ the thing.
A few years ago I had a young female patient who had hurt her coccyx (tail bone) after a fall while skating. Noticing that she wearing one of the afore-mentioned garments I warned her that she would have to avoid direct pressure on the area while it healed but it would still be sore for quite a while.
In other words “The thong is gone, but the malady lingers on…”
- I don’t have a wife to chastise me.
- I am not a dirty old man. Although an expatriate Brit, I do wash regularly.
- I’m too old for the other interpretation now.
More is the pity.