My son is working on his Boy Scout merit badge in railroading and one of the requirements is to show the difference in the four most popular scales. I remember seeing a photo that showed an engine in 4 scales on the same page to illustrate the difference but that was a long time ago. Is there someplace where I can get a picture that shows this? Also would a switching layout be considered a point to point layout?
Thanks for any information.[:D]
A self contained city block is not a point to point.
John Allen’s Timesaver for two people can be considered a extremly compressed point to point railroad as the players need to transfer a freight car from one side to the other.
A point to point can be done in … 8 feet or less if you left one depot with a engine and a passenger car and traveled the main to the other depot with the option to run around the passenger car and tow it on the return trip.
Any point to point railroad operationally needs to take a passenger car or a freight car loaded with something from point A to a defined point B that is unique from Point A and has some distance between both.
Most railroads are point to point, out and back and continous run.
Any number of books in the hobby shop should illustrate scales. I think even this website has a few images for begineers. I dont know if they survive the change over when the old website was scrapped.
I have a magazine from the World’s Greatest Hobby Campaing and it shows a picture of Large,O,HO and N scales. -dekruif
Well, I found this on wikimedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Train_scales_vert.jpg )
Here’s an HO and Z scale comparison ( www.artm-friends.at/rm/train/ )
