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Re: Reopening "Why don't they make?"...
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 11:13 am
by Walkingthedog
I think TT is going to do well. Some new locos being introduced soon.
Re: Reopening "Why don't they make?"...
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 3:49 pm
by bulleidboy
sandy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 11:08 am
Englishbob wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:32 am
From the cheap-seats...(All will become apparent if you read on...). I am returning after 55 years. From the days of "Hornby super 4". I am at the planning/drafting/drawing stage of a DC, 9.5 metre, end-to-end layout, in OO. I will be using Peco code 100 with electrofrogs. My question is..."Why don't they make a code 100, electrofrog double-slip?" There may be a perfectly simple explanation. After all, I freely admit to being below-novice at all this!
Oh, and be warned...I have several hundred other dumb-questions!!!
I have a SL-90 Double slip on my mainline and it works just fine. Perhapse that is why they dont make an Electrofrog version.
I have two SL-E190
electrofrog Double Slips and they work fine - albeit Code 75.
Re: Reopening "Why don't they make?"...
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 5:19 pm
by yelrow
WTD, TT is fun, even the old locos.
Re: Reopening "Why don't they make?"...
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:18 pm
by sandy
Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 11:13 am
I think TT is going to do well. Some new locos being introduced soon.
Agree with you that it will probably do well. But I could never understand why oo gauge did so well with it being the wrong track gauge in the first place. Everyone bought it because there was no other choice at the time. Triang tried TT years ago but it fissiled out. If it gets popular it could challenge oo gauge. But I am keeping mine.
Re: Reopening "Why don't they make?"...
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:52 pm
by Walkingthedog
If you wanted British outline at a reasonable price OO was really the only choice. Got my first OO set in about 1959 and the stuff was readily available in the local toy shop and it just got added to for about 60 years. Had no idea about the gauge being incorrect and neither did my dad, why would we, we weren’t rivet counters we just wanted to play trains.
Re: Reopening "Why don't they make?"...
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 2:07 pm
by sandy
Yes I was the same playing trains in the late 50s with Hornby doublo 16.5 track. Trouble is my dad was not interested. I got my interest from watching the trains though a missing paling in the fence near our local station and waving to the drivers who mostly waved back while my Mum was shopping. But even then in the 50s the EM modellers were busy trying to convince the OO gauge followers that 18 mm was the way to go. In fact even that was 1 mm short of the correct 4mm conversion I think. Near as dam it.
Re: Reopening "Why don't they make?"...
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 3:20 pm
by Mountain Goat
I don't know why they didn't go down the American 00 gauge route and use 19mm gauge.
Re: Reopening "Why don't they make?"...
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:20 pm
by Walkingthedog
Or why didn’t the Americans go down the UK route. I really don’t think running UK OO on HO track is a problem. Looks OK to me. We know why OO is a bit over scale for HO.
Re: Reopening "Why don't they make?"...
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:36 pm
by sandy
Could say the same about TT
Re: Reopening "Why don't they make?"...
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:51 pm
by Walkingthedog
Never really taken much notice of what TT runs on. Is that out of scale.