Model Trains

"G" scale is the largest scale, often used for garden railways

The answer is yes. Lionel and Atlas O scale trains are 100 percent compatible. You differentiate model and toy trains according to their scale and their gauge. "Scale" relates to the comparative ratio of measurements between the model and its full-size counterpart or prototype.

"Gauge" the second aspect of a model's size, refers tp tje space betweem tje rails of the track, For O gauge this measurement is 1 1/4 inches. These same models are built to a ratio of 1:48 so a 50 foot long real (prototype) locomotive would be 12 1/2 inches in length on the model.

Atlas model trains will run on Lionel track and vise-a-versa. The two companies also use the same style and type of coupler along with the same hieight for holding their trains together. I hope this helps and if you need more information e-mail or call me, thanks.

Jerry Kimble

jkimble@atlaso.com

1-908-687-9590 ext. 7118

Atlas Model Railroad Company

0n3 .. that's O scale (1:48) running on .75 in gauge track (1:48 = 1/4" = 1ft.) ... On30 runs on HO track (meaning that HO track represents 30" track in O scale)

It was partially funded by government grants of land along the route. The railroad companies had to sell the land in order to receive the money. The railroads thus funded were required to pay back the government by giving discounts on shipping of government goods until the 1940s when it was recognized that they had "paid back" far more than they had originally received.

I did some research and found that the train was made only for the movie and is not available for public sales. The website I was on said the train is located in the US archives. - under the Smithsonian museum.

Watts are a unit of power, so you know how much power the unit will draw when it is "on." More details on that later. First, you are billed for electricity in kilowatt-hours (KWH). (Look at your latest bill to see how much you are charged per KWH. It probably varies: so much for the first so many KWH, then a different rate for each KWH over the first threshold.) Next, a kilowatt-hour is 1,000 watts times one hour. To run the 1500 watt heater for eight hours (assuming full on, but more details on that later) would consume 1,500 times 8 divided by 1,000 = 12 KWH. Compare that to your electric bill to estimate how much it would cost. Finally, if the heater has a thermostat, it will not be "on" all the time. When the temperature around the unit rises above its thermostat setting, the heating elements will turn off, so it will no longer consume its rated power. While in this mode, main switch on but heating elements turned off by the thermostat, it wil draw some power, but only on the order of miliwatts (thousandths of a watt). It is not possible to predict its "duty cycle," how much time it will be "on" as a fraction of whole time, without either a) some impossibly complicated engineering formula and equally impossible to get figures regarding the size of the space it is heating, how drafty it is, how well insulated it is, and the ambient temperature outside the space; or b) try it out and time how long it is on and how long it is off over the course of a couple of hours. Anyway, the power rating in watts times the length of time you expect to turn it on per month divided by 1000 will give you a maximum figure for how many KWH it could possibly use. Actual consumption will be somewhat less, but impossible to predict.

The Lionel company is most famous as a producer and seller of model trains and model train sets. The vast majority of the companies sales come from the O Gauge Trains line.

Many of these Lionel trains are valued in price close to $50 each. The exact amount will depend upon the exact train and its condition.

Woodland Scenics offers a great product line for making roads. check out their website. go to products>terain & lanscape>road system

No, there is not unfortunately :/

Try these well-known model train stores:

1. William K. Walthers, Inc. - largest model train suppliers worldwide

2. Caboose Hobbies -one of the world's largest model train store located at Denver, Colorado.

3. For good list of supply you might want to check on ScaleModel.net.

added to these excellent response try googling HORNBY - They have distributors worldwide and have web based suppliers also - good luck with it

The O gauge was a zero - and so "smaller" than 1 gauge.

HO was "supposed" to be "half-O" but not quite.

In the 1940's there was quite a battle over what scale HO should be, and you'll note that British HO runs on HO tracks but is bigger than US HO.

S was supposed to stand for "standard" - but nobody but Gilbert used it.

Smaller than HO was another fight ... but I never followed it.

Lubricate the track on a monthly basis.

TiteBond 2 will do the quite well, PL300 works also, but is thicker.

Yes it is an O Gauge made in 1941 first and after the war in 1945-46. It is a 4-4-2 Atlantic. It was built by the AC Gilbert Company in 3/16 scale. Later the die was used for the S Gauge trains built by Gilbert from 1946 on.

Answer Scale, in this sense is the replication of an object, in this case, a 1/3 scale model of a car, will be 1/3 the size of the original car. building cars out of scales

As long as the transformer is capable of 12 Volts DC output, you can use any transformer with HO scale equipment.

how ever much u put in it

Jenna wants to make a park bench as part of her family's miniature railroad train display. If the display is built to scale where 2 cm = 1 ft, and Jenna is modeling her bench after a bench with a length of 6 ft, what will the length of Jenna's model be?

Check eBay, or contact Lionel Trains about it.

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The first Lionel train was the electric express. The electric express was basically a small sigar box with wheels and would roll on a track. It was made to display products in the store window.

yes

You can't use a transformer.

HO models all run on DC current, AC will destroy them.

You can buy HO power supplies, and for 30 ft of track almost any one would do.