Model Forum / General / Railroads / April 2006

I would suspect that you will have to do so much butchery that you
might be better scratchbuilding from the start :-)   Peco timbering on
track and pointwork is a law unto itself and is a compromise between
UK and North American standards, between H0 scale and 00 scale
standards and incorporates Peco's own individual ideas on the layout
of points and crossings - so pick the bones out of that :-)

If you're working in 00,  then set up Templot to work in 4mm scale,
16.5mm gauge and you should get a good representation of timbering -
which,  in itself,  will be a compromise since using the 'narrow'
gauge of 16.5mm does not allow you to make an accurate representation
of prototype track timbering in 4mm scale.

Jim.

Trespasser said the following on 26/04/2006 21:22:

Peco Streamline flexi-track is 3.5mm scale, not 4mm, so it isn't right!
 Jim has already given you some useful info, but can I suggest that you
join the Templot email group? Details from http://www.templot.com/

On this subject, I am surprised at the number of otherwise very good
exhibition layouts to 4mm scale that use still 3.5mm scale track.
Assuming there is a reason to stay with OO, the likes of C&L supply more
realistic trackwork than Peco, yet Peco still predominates.