Simon Winter posted:Am I angry.......nope. Do I consider my models an investment....LOL. Despite what you fine folks say, the only difference is the length of the axles, and ALL the other stuff you try and attribute solely to P48 can be done in standard O. You can post all your bogus pictures of large side frames and large wheel profiles, but the only REAL difference is the gauge alone.
Simon
Difference is not gauge alone, but wheel width, tread size and flange. PIctures are not bogus they clearly show the difference and when P48 trucks are placed on an OW5 box car, to me, the difference is striking and I don’t care what anyone else thinks and I certainly don’t care if anyone models in OW5.
I have about 45 pcs of rolling stock and 6 cabooses that have been converted from OW5 to P48 and the conversion was painless except for a few bucks. Also I am willing to spend the $$ to convert some of the locomotives I have to P48, the rest will go on sale/sold.
Once I saw the difference, it could not be “unseen” and I was bitten by the P48 bug. It is true that a model is not a 100% representation of the 1:1 real thing, but if you scale up an OW5 to 1:1, it would look so out of place and scale.
I am not “trying to obsolete thousands of models”, just the models I own.
Larry
