Kato Track Planning Template

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Fellow modellers,

I am designing an N Scale railroad and have a wonderful tool donated by Kato that was designed to be used with their N-Guage Unitrack system. The drawing scale is indicated as 1/10mm. I am wondering if anyone can give me a conversion to 1/160 inches. For instance a curve is labelled as R249 on the template. Would that equate to a 9 inch curve? And is their #4 and #6 turnouts the same as Peco #4 and #6s?

Thanks,

Jim

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1/160 inches = 0.00625 inches = 0.158750 mm…the other way 0.10 mm = 0.003937 inches, but I dont know the Kado or Peco nomenclatures or equivalencies

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R249 249 mm = 9-3/4" radius

information here: http://www.katousa.com/N/Unitrack/g-single.html

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I know this is a radical idea, but you can get rulers and scales that measure stuff in millimeters and centimeters without having to convert to 1/16ths and 1/64ths and whatnot. You can even do most of the calculations in your head.

Try it, you might like it.

Robert