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"HONGZ" stands for HO scale, N scale, G scale, and Z scale.

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Jacobpaul81 posted:
Engineer-Joe posted:

not much G scale outside yet, it just keeps snowing!

Putting KDs and wheel bearings in the G scale USA Trains autorack.

 

Seems you run an awful lot of 1:29 equipment given your MTH 1:32 locomotives.  Do you just put 1:29 right behind the engines or do you put some 1:32 in-between?    

I put freight together anywhere in the consist. It just does not bother me about the size difference. I see so many differences on the real trains that I get a kick out of some comments on my videos.

 I do admit, that for some reason I can't stand putting 1/32 and 1/29 scale passenger trains together. I really wonder if some of the so called 1/29 passenger equipment is oversized? The LGB Genesis and cars are definitely built to a larger scale.

Engineer-Joe posted:
Jacobpaul81 posted:
Engineer-Joe posted:

not much G scale outside yet, it just keeps snowing!

Putting KDs and wheel bearings in the G scale USA Trains autorack.

 

Seems you run an awful lot of 1:29 equipment given your MTH 1:32 locomotives.  Do you just put 1:29 right behind the engines or do you put some 1:32 in-between?    

I put freight together anywhere in the consist. It just does not bother me about the size difference. I see so many differences on the real trains that I get a kick out of some comments on my videos.

 I do admit, that for some reason I can't stand putting 1/32 and 1/29 scale passenger trains together. I really wonder if some of the so called 1/29 passenger equipment is oversized? The LGB Genesis and cars are definitely built to a larger scale.

The 10% volume difference might be more present in a passenger train where you have uniform cars throughout as opposed to a mixed freight where you don't necessarily have uniform cars one after another?   

The width is the big question for me with the freight.  AML and Aristocraft have produced a number of models I like but the 1:29 width dimension seems more noticable with 40' cars.  

I buy all different eras of freight cars. That's where the big problem comes in mixing them and different scales of each. I'll have a couple of big consists outside where one might be a coal drag and another a mixed freight. The next session I may put them together to create a bigger train. All the cars and eras get mixed in. When a larger modern car made in the larger 1/29 scale, gets next to an older era smaller car made in the smaller 1/32, it can look much worse. It still can be prototypical!

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