Commuting in 1:100

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I am sure you have seen the trains in the museum in old union terminal. Perhaps you could interest them in some kind of display depicting this railroad? Building in any weird scale would not be that difficult, so long as you can use track and mechanisms from another scale. But, I would be more inclined to start in a known scale, and then just re-gauge the mechanisms. Re-gauging a few locomotives and cars seems much less work than having to custom make all the accessories - automobiles, street lamps, structures, FIGURES... Since you are talking about pre-1900, you will wind up scratching all the buildings and rolling stock anyway, but I am not sure where you could find 1:100 figures.

You are familiar with our Museum Center's layout. I was shocked by it on my first trip a few years back. (especially since I used to be a tour guide in the control tower...and never knew there was such a layout!...and S scale of all scales!?!?)
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What a layout. And then there were all the other pieces throughout the facility...such as the 3/4" scale NYC 4-8-4 (or 4-8-2?). Wow.

I found a little more info today...perusing my father's book on a brief visit before a birthday part...the three narrow gauge locomotives all had 30" drivers...so they were smaller than the CC engines. The first, which was too weak, would be accurately depicted with Grandt Line's On3 Steam Dummy. There were indeed two 0-6-0ts...a 14t and a 16t...these were lighter locomotives than the Grandt Line 0-4-0! I will definitely think about them as a practical matter in On3. The passenger cars (and accordingly, probably the freight cars as well) were from Barney & Smith.

I wonder for figures, in 1:100, about the availability of 1:96 military modeler figures. I also wonder about doll house hobbyist figures...and TT scale figures would be pretty close to usable...a 6' TT figure would be 5' tall.

The time period on this road with be the late 1870s...no vehicles, no electric, no gas lights. Horseys, a difficult matter in any scale, would be needed for the stations...while only the CH&D track would be represented. If a suitable mechanism was available in HO...then HO figures and horseys would be great (besides...I have HOn3 stuff already!).

Michael