OO Standards

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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(Edited with corrected links.)

OO Modelers -

Hello,

I am working on a project focused on North American OO Scale Trains. I am looking for people who have OO locomotives, cars, track, switches and wheel sets. With track and switches, the track code would also be of interest.

What I need are accurate measurements using the same points of measurement as found here:

https://www.scalefour.org/p4-standards/

(Choose PDF or HTML and then navigate to the lower section of page.)

Accuracy is very important for this project.

If you could detail the manufacturer of the parts or item, and as much information as you can, that would be great.

The goal is to discover the manufacturing deviations in the vintage products of the 1930’s, 40’s and fifties - even 60’s if there are some available.

You can either post it in the community and also email it directly to development@00scale.com.

As there are stories of great variation in track gauge and equipment wheel gauge, I am trying to see what the extremes of the deviations are.

Thank you.

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Hi, Scale76, and welcome to the Forums.

It looks like you attempted to provide a link to a document that exists only on your computer. There’s no way anyone on the Forums can see that document.

Also, the e-mail address you provided has zeroes (00) instead of the expected capital OOs. Is it correct?

Also also, don’t get your hopes up for too many responses – OO is a European (mostly British) scale, and I’d be surprised if you find any American-outline models in that scale.

Good luck, though.

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I think triang is the only one that I know of that made OO. Scale North American (continental) stuff. And that was mostly for the European market. And wildly out of scale and perspective. For the 60’s Iff I recall. if there is any other north american outline than just triang, it is very much rare here. Having to do with physical model size and the size of the motors at the time ment OO scale wasn’t really needed here

shane

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There have been US modellers using OO here (using a larger track gauge than HO so it’s in scale with the 4mm = 1ft linear scale.) The NMRA website has some interesting information:

https://www.nmra.org/oo-scale-sig-page

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Thank you -

I am reposting the post and making the corrections.

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To the OP: No need to repost. All you had to do is edit your original post, which I did for you.

FYI: This is the forum that this type of thread is appropriate for. The Prototype forum is for asking queries about the 1:1 prototype.

Tom

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The Peco code 100 is designed to the European 00 gauge. I believe Faller and and other European manufacturers did do some American type locomotives and cars.

Pete.