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A good friend of mine dropped by yesterday and dropped off a little gift, this Backmann On30 Train Set.
I did take it out of the box to look it over, but until I figure out a place, I put it back in for safe keeping. Given that the size of On30 is supposed to be 1:48, the size of the locomotive and tender was surprising, they're pretty tiny!
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Pretty cool John! I sure do miss having Tom here on the forum. It's good that you two live close and can visit each other.
Maybe he can help you install some HO track for your gift. 
I'm looking for a place to install it. 
How about a 3rd level? 
Well, that ain't happening!
John,
Where's your sense of adventure?
You can always lay some dual gauge track, O/On30. If you shift the center rail of your 3-rail track just 0.073" toward one side you'll get On30 track. I recall some years ago there was a thread on one of the Forums discussing this topic. You would likely have to make your own frogs.
Jan
I see a mountain and a small town going up in the middle of the upper level loop of John's empire.......
Cool set John!
@Jan posted:You can always lay some dual gauge track, O/On30. If you shift the center rail of your 3-rail track just 0.073" toward one side you'll get On30 track. I recall some years ago there was a thread on one of the Forums discussing this topic. You would likely have to make your own frogs.
Laying my own track sounds like way more work and time than I'm willing to sign up for. 
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Laying my own track sounds like way more work and time than I'm willing to sign up for.
Yes. As someone once said, "Nothing is so easy as the job you imagine someone else doing."
@gunrunnerjohn posted:I'm looking for a place to install it.
Build a small layout and keep it under your bed! Like the old days! Lol
Tom
That’s not a gift it’s a few hundred dollar bill
@Krieglok posted:Build a small layout and keep it under your bed! Like the old days! Lol
Tom
I think I'd get some push back from the boss!
Tom, if I looked like that now, I could probably get away with it.
What’s the engine number? I have the OR&W one, but there’s also a Waynie set (Waynesburg and Washington #4, Pennsylvania #9664.) Were there others?
ETA: To simulate either railroad’s track, have a drunken snake crawl around on the layout board and use that for your track pattern. If you do OR&W, be sure to add improbable tunnels on absurdly steep grades. For W&W, you can do slightly more usable grades, but throw in some turns so tight they look like trolley tracks. Narrow gauge railroading wasn’t easy on the crews, but it sure is fun to read about and look at.
The road number is 9587, and the locomotive is a 2-6-0 Mogul.
If you have the dimensional space, this set could be an effective use of forced perspective. For example, an elevated mountain scene in the background.
How timely!
Check the new magazine edition editorial from @Allan Miller encouraging adding gauges to layouts like the club in Australia did.
This may be GRJs ticket to a magazine article?????
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