I'm building a couple af rail cars an the height of them are 16' 8" (real car) not sure if I'm geting it right in HO scale any help?????

kamerad47 Wrote:I'm building a couple af rail cars an the height of them are 16' 8" (real car) not sure if I'm geting it right in HO scale any help?????

How about (16 * 12) +8 = 200" prototype height, 200 / 87 = 2.29" model height

faraway Wrote:

kamerad47 Wrote:I'm building a couple af rail cars an the height of them are 16' 8" (real car) not sure if I'm geting it right in HO scale any help?????

How about (16 * 12) +8 = 200" prototype height, 200 / 87 = 2.29" model height

Or 16 8/12 times 3.5 = 58.333 mm

Real Railcar = 16 feet 8 inches

16 feet x 12 inches per foot = 192 inches plus the 8 inches = a total of 200 inches overall height of railcar.

To convert inches to millimetres, there are 25.4 mm in an inch, so 200 x 25.4 = 5080 mm

Next to convert the overall height in mm to HO scale we divide by 1/87, so 5080 / 87 = 58.39 mm, so 58 mm high overall

58 mm is the answer we are looking for.

I hope that this and the other answers have helped to clear up your maths problem.

Mark
We here in the Land of OZ have supposedly been Metricated since the '70's, however many things used in the building trade are still sized according to the 'old' Imperial sizes, so it can be a problem with hardware like nuts and bolts much of which is still made in Imperial, like Whitworth threads, and other stuff is supplied as Metric threads.

This means that you need double sockets and spanners, taps and dies etc.

Or if you can afford them you purchase a brand called Metrinch which will work with both.

Groan

faraway Wrote:

kamerad47 Wrote:I'm building a couple af rail cars an the height of them are 16' 8" (real car) not sure if I'm geting it right in HO scale any help?????

How about (16 * 12) +8 = 200" prototype height, 200 / 87 = 2.29" model height

Ok, if a metric result is needed (I don't know the origin of kamerad47) the magic number is 2.54. 1 inch = 2.54 cm

"General", makes and sells "Scale Rulers", in 6", and 12" lengths - - - - saves a lot of "Math-Time"

Ask your local Hobby Shop, or check the "tools" section of the Walthers catalog.

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Side Extensions for C&D service.

So can someone inform me as to what C&D service is?

Mark

C & D is construction & demolition waste products . There has been alot of them around the northeast US & basically it is a metal building that a railcar fits in , they dump rolloff trucks or (skip trucks) & reload it into railcars & ship to landfills . I have one of these industries on my layout, because they switch it once a day or a couple times a week

Thanks.

Its so obvious when you know.

Construction and Demolition debris.

Mark

kamerad47 Wrote:I'm building a couple af rail cars an the height of them are 16' 8" (real car) not sure if I'm geting it right in HO scale any help?????

Not to sound like a smarty pants..

A HO scale ruler would save you a lot of math since all you'll need to do is measure 16' 8" on the ruler..