John Clutterbuck wrote a series of three articles about building accurate trackwork which was originally published in Roy C Link’s Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling Review issues 63, 64 & 65. As Roy has now sold most of the relevant back issues, John and Roy have collaborated to produce an updated electronic booklet [...]
RP25 and ScaleSeven Wheel Comparison
This shows a comparison of the NMRA RP25 110 wheel profile commonly used for O14 and the ScaleSeven wheel profile for standard gauge locos, established from published web sources.
Given that most narrow gauge locos had a similar flange profile to standard gauge locos often with a slightly narrower tread, the profiles [...]
The first published O14 standards appeared in ‘Model Railway Constructor’ magazine, September 1951. The article was titled ‘A Narrow Gauge Layout’ and was by Douglas Clayton. He advocated HO standards, less 2.5mm coupled with coarse scale ‘OO’ wheelsets set to 12.5mm back to back. A subsequent article in 1953, provided details of his layout. Very [...]
