HO Narrow Gauge

adnelson · February 14, 2003, 4:00pm

OK, I am a little confused. Which HO narrow gauge scale will fit on N scale track. I think it is HOn30, but am not sure.
Thanks,
Tony

Anonymous · February 15, 2003, 7:13am

Hello Tony,

That’s right. N standard gauge track is 9mm wide (hence the name for “N” scale), while HOn3 is 10.5mm.

Paul

Anonymous · February 14, 2003, 9:30pm

Hello Tony,

You’re right, N scale track has the same, or almost so, width as 30"-gauge track in HO scale.

There were protoytpe 30"-gauge railroads, by the way, mostly in Central and South America, as well as Germany, but two were in California.

Regards,

Paul Schmidt
Contributing Editor
Trains.com

adnelson · February 14, 2003, 10:39pm

Thanks Paul, I guess then that HOn3 would be a tad bigger at 36" and would not fit N gauge track.
Tony

joseph2 · February 15, 2003, 6:14am

Hi.If you type HOn30 into the Yahoo search engine you should get some results.There are a few HOn 30 modelers out there.One of the difficulties is finding a N scale steam loco that runs good enough.