11-07-2009, 05:51 AM
THe track would be ballasted with dirt most likely laid flat on the lightly graded ground. The dirt would be removed from each side in the form of a drainage ditch and deposited between the ties to keep them in place.
Trucks-wheel sets, figures, vehicles etc. are available in Scale 55:
![[Image: obj22geo22pg1p33.jpg]](http://www.55n3.org/image/obj22geo22pg1p33.jpg)
![[Image: pi_266.jpeg]](http://www.55n3.org/image/pi_266.jpeg)
a truck from the 28mm Military world
Visit the website at:
http://www.55n3.org/
On3 cars should scale up to Scale 55 standard gauge box cars with regauged O std gauge trucks, the Bachmann On30 boxcars also are the same size as the small box car from the 1879 Car Builders Dictionary.
Not to speak ill of Bachmann because that is where I get my 55n3 equipment, but their selection of On30 motive power in relation to US narrow gauge is pretty lame. The Tweetsie 4-6-0 is too huge and late for the "narrow gauge era" , 1875-1895. I have seen the 2-6-6-2 and is once more a South American export model. The Uintah locomotive is too large and most participants in On30 don't really care about prototype. It won't be a big seller because On30 loves the HO Mantua 2-6-6-2 with a Big Cab.
Why no track in On3 and HOn3? San Juan has On3 turnouts now. HOn3 had Shinohara but HOn3 has too small of a constituency. Bachmann introduced the On30 for the Dept 56 crowd, that is why it succeeded. There aren't enough On3 people and the cost of tooling track is too expensive for a big corporation.
Harold
Trucks-wheel sets, figures, vehicles etc. are available in Scale 55:
a truck from the 28mm Military world
Visit the website at:
http://www.55n3.org/
On3 cars should scale up to Scale 55 standard gauge box cars with regauged O std gauge trucks, the Bachmann On30 boxcars also are the same size as the small box car from the 1879 Car Builders Dictionary.
Not to speak ill of Bachmann because that is where I get my 55n3 equipment, but their selection of On30 motive power in relation to US narrow gauge is pretty lame. The Tweetsie 4-6-0 is too huge and late for the "narrow gauge era" , 1875-1895. I have seen the 2-6-6-2 and is once more a South American export model. The Uintah locomotive is too large and most participants in On30 don't really care about prototype. It won't be a big seller because On30 loves the HO Mantua 2-6-6-2 with a Big Cab.
Why no track in On3 and HOn3? San Juan has On3 turnouts now. HOn3 had Shinohara but HOn3 has too small of a constituency. Bachmann introduced the On30 for the Dept 56 crowd, that is why it succeeded. There aren't enough On3 people and the cost of tooling track is too expensive for a big corporation.
Harold