I have a ho scale ruler was wondering how many ho scale feet in a mile.
One mile = 5280’ One scale mile = 5280 scale feet
That’s pretty funny–yep, I guess that answers his question literally. I think what he really wants to know is how many actual feet would be in an HO scale mile–which would be 5280/87.1 = 60.6 feet.
Jim
I think the question you’re asking is… How many feet “1:1” feet in an “HO” mile?
5280 / 87 is just shy of 60.7 feet for a scale “HO” mile.
Or, going the other way, there are approximately 466,000 HO scale feet in a 1:1 scale mile…[:-^]
Academic to me, since I model in the metric system.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - in 1:80 scale)
5280’ (mile) X 87.1 (HO) = 45,292 scale feet per mile
I think what you want is what an HO scale mile is:
5,280 feet (an actual mile). Divided by 87.1 (HO) = roughly 60 feet (60.61’)
… and your 4X8 is ??
Chuck TT:
Are SHINOHARA turnouts measured in Metric or English ?
Metric. 16.5mm (HO or HOj standard) and 10.5mm (HOn3 or HOJn762) gauge. Tie spacing and proportions are valid for 1:80 scale, aka HOj.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
according to the question literally, thats the answer.
You got some other answers as well, hope they help!!! I hope, I think they do…don’t they, maybe…er well, uh, I’ll slink away…
As ole’ Gary Cooper would say, ‘Yup! Five thousand two hundred and eighty feet! Yup!’
Put this in your Wal-Mart $4.95 special.: 5280 X 3.5 X .03937 ÷ 12 and you should come up with 60.6298 feet which is 60 feet, seven and 9/16ths inches. That’s an HO Scale mile!!
Put this in that Wal-Mart $4.95 special: 1 ÷ 3.5 ÷ .03937 X 12 should give you 87.09 which, by a quirk, happens to be HO Scale; it seems logical to me that it would take 87.09 HO Scale miles to equal one twelve inch to the foot mile.
Whoa, wait a minute. I think you’re missing a digit on that answer somewhere. Chuck was pretty close with 466,000 scale feet in a (real) mile. My calculator says:
5,280 x 87.1 = 459,888
Now, if you’re using nautical miles which is 6076 feet (or 1852 meters exactly, according Wikipedia), then the math is as follows:
6,076 x 87.1 = 529,219.6
I think, however, you were looking for the opposite answer, in which case an HO scale mile is just over 60 1/2 feet.
Brad
Thats what I get as well.
You cannot really trust anything on Wiki sites. Anyone can post and edit anything there. That is the definition of a Wiki.
Very true, which is why I cite my source, so that you may take it with a grain of salt.
If it would make you feel better, I could look it up on my “dead trees” version, but it would take longer.
Brad
If you laid 60.6 of your rulers end to end that would equal a mile
Thanks for your help gang,helps out alot,now my calculator died and I need to figure out .6 of a mile which I know will be alittle over 30 actual feet I am gonna guess 34 feet,won’t be able to get batteries till Wednesday!!Thanks for your help and Happy New Year
Doesn’t your computer have a calculator function? In MS Windows, just open the Start menu, click all programs, then accessories. One of the accessories is a calculator.
Happy calculating
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
6/10ths of a mile is 3168 feet. In HO scale, that would equal (actual) 36.37 feet. Or, you could round it off to 36 feet, 4 inches.
Brad
While it’s true that anyone can post and edit, there is also a group of dedicated editors that work to keep the information correct. Most of the deliberate or slanted information is found in politician entries and other areas where someone has an axe to grind. The editors weed this out, but it can take a while to discover. Factual information like the above tends to be pretty accurate. Value statements like HO scale is the most popular model railroading scale tends to represent the writer’s cultural view which may not apply in all countries. This is no different from books, magazines, etc.; except they aren’t corrected as easily. But with any source, additional sources are better - that’s why your English teacher required several sources for your term papers.
Enjoy
Paul
Nautical or statute miles?
How many meters in a nautical kilometer (is there such a thing)?
Sorry, I just returned from an ocean cruise (where we sank some SUVs and containers when colliding with a barge in the Montevideo harbor channel) and couldn’t help myself.
One nautical mile converts to:
- 1,852 metres (exact)
- 1.150779 mile (statute) [1] (exact: 57,875/50,292 miles)
- 2,025.372 yard (exact: 2,315,000/1,143 yards)
- 6,076.1155 feet (exact: 2,315,000/381 feet)
- 1,012.6859 fathoms (exact: 1,157,500/1,143 fathoms)
- 10 common-definition cables (exact, as one common definition of “cable”)
- 10.126859 “ordinary” (100-fathom) cables (exact: 11,575/1,143 ordinary cables)
- 12.152231 US Navy (120-fathom) cables (exact: 9,260/762 US Navy cables)
- 0.998383 equatorial arc minutes = traditional geographical miles (approx.)
- 0.9998834 mean meridian arc minutes = mean historical nautical miles (approx.)
No such thing as a nautical kilometer.
The length of an HO nautical mile is 69.76 feet in the 1:1 world.