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| Subject: | Re: 1/35 railroad tracks? |  |
| Date: | Apr 9, 2007 |
| From: | James Bilbrey | |
I've should have warned you that my other hobby is model railroading. So, sometimes numbers just come naturally for me with me offering any proof or supporting information.
One source that I got the information from is Woflgang Sawodny's "German Armored Trains in World War II: Vol. II 1939-1945". On page 7, the author states, "...several armored trains built to the wide Russian Gauge (1524 mm)...The available normal-gauge (1435 mm)..." Converting that over to english is. The 1524 mm measurement converts over to 5-foot gauge.
A little harder for me to provide reference (simply because I don't have a particular book handy) is that the U.S. locomotive manufacturers (ALCo, Baldwin, etc) produced some locomotives of the 2-10-0 wheel arrangement for the Czarist railroads prior to 1917. Some of the locomotives were never delivered. Rather than scrap them, the companies replaced the 5-ft. gauge tires on the drivers with wider tires for standard gauge and sold them to various U.S. railroads. These locomotives became known as "Russian Decapods".
I hope this helps and explains things somewhat.
James Bilbrey |
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 | 1/35 railroad tracks? - James Wallis - Apr 8, 2007 |
| . . . Re: 1/35 railroad tracks? - Rick Wolfe - Apr 8, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: 1/35 railroad tracks? - Gerald Owens - Apr 9, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: 1/35 railroad tracks? - Andy Shaw - Apr 13, 2007 |
| . . . Re: 1/35 railroad tracks? - Howard Freeman - Apr 9, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: 1/35 railroad tracks? - James Bilbrey - Apr 9, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: 1/35 railroad tracks? - Howard Freeman - Apr 9, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: 1/35 railroad tracks? - James Bilbrey - Apr 9, 2007 |
| . . . Re: 1/35 railroad tracks? Soviet gauge - Danny Egan - Apr 9, 2007 |
| . . . Re: 1/35 railroad tracks? - Howard Freeman - Apr 10, 2007 |
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