"28mm Train Cars" Topic

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I need to set up 3 rail cars for a BAB Corinth scenario. I see Redoubt has some but it says they sit on "O" scale track. When I search Ebay, the O scale track all seems to have 3 tracks.

Do you think that is what Redoubt means? To I pry off the middle rail?

Are there other period appropriate options?

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here what you want

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Wackmole9, YOU DA' MAN!!!!

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If you are considering O scale, this is the old Lionel train set size, a little large for 25mm figs.
One area to look at is On30, this is the same scale but the n stands for Narrow gauge, the 30 means 30" wide track. This was the smaller lines, used later post civil war for logging and mining lines. Here is the deal, these lines used cars that were smaller due to narrow spaces, so the cars fit better with our 25mm and 28mm. Bachmann makes a lot in this scale, another limited option is railroad "S" gauge or 1/64 which is perfect for 25mm. The problem is this is not popular, hard to find and expense.
We use the On30 and it looks great, the cars run on HO track which you can get in a flex track for even less.

Unless you can nail down the track, or all-straight is fine, stay away from the flex track that Wackmole9 links to. It doesn't stay flexed.

I bought 2-rail O-gauge track from JD Trains. And he has curves in various radii.

jdstrains.com (website)
jdstrains.com/atotrsy.html (direct to track)

Good guy to deal with.

But go with the lightest rail you can find to better replicate 1860s track. A better bet with the flex track is: link

Jim

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If you are going to be a track fanatic, I suspect you'd have to lay your own. Most currently available O scale track duplicates 20th century practice. For 19th century tie plates would not be common and tie spacing was likely to be farther apart. As ColCampbell indicates the rail itself would be lighter, probably something closer to HO sized rail. This is assuming that the track was even T rail. There were other types of rail in use, including in some places strap rail. The final point is that even in 1/48 scale the gauge is off.

For most wargame purposes though you don't have to be a track fanatic and commercially available 2 rail O track is fine.

Also, "O scale" track is 2 rail.
atlaso.com/o2railnstrack.htm
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"O gauge" track is 3 rail.
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sometimes web site will mistakenly call 3 rail track O scale, but people in that hobby are quick to correct you. Expanding on Bill, the truly hard core scale modelers hand lay their track, hand spiking each tie themselves.

You also might want to look at this series of posts as O scale might look too big for your figures. TMP link

various scales explained:

This is S scale
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There's also 'Gauge One', which is (I think) 1/32.