The Sacramento Northern & Southern Pacific in O scale (proto 48) Color Country Railroad Tour

Part three - The Sacramento Northern and Southern Pacific. The Color Country Model Railroad Club’s eleventh annual “Model Train Home Tour” AMAZING DETAIL!

This week we are back to Jim Harper's AMAZING O scale (proto 48) layout of the Sacramento Northern and Southern Pacific in Northern California.


From the web:
The history of model railroading has been one of steady and constant improvement in the quality and accuracy. As more information has become available modelers have attempted to make their models more accurately. In the 1960's a group of modelers decided to change the fundamental relationship of wheel contour and gauge in an attempt to create a more realistic model that would operate better and more reliably than the traditional NMRA O gauge standard. The change entailed the adoption of a scale replica of the AAR standards used by full-sized railroads. The wheel profile was changed to a scale 5.5" in width with a scale flange depth of approximately 1". The gauge was corrected to a prototypically correct 4' 8 1/2" rather than the traditional 5' gauge used by modelers since the scale's inception. To more accurately identify this subset of O scale, the new standards were referred to as 1/4"AAR scale or gauge.

St George Utah's Color Country Model Railroad Club held its eleventh annual “Model Train Home Tour” last November as part of National Model Railroad Appreciation Month.

20 layouts were on the tour including these four Train Layouts in American Flyer "S" scale, "HO Scale and Lionel "O" scale.

Red Cliffs Miniatures
www.redcliffsminiatures.com
2166 Thomas Trail
Santa Clara, Utah 84765

Red Cliffs Miniatures has an extensive line of track related parts and details. You will find turnout kits, switch stands, instructional material on track building.

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