09-17-2009, 10:00 AM
tv_man Wrote:Allright, I'll try to guess.
a. You have a layout room with room for a pretty big layout.
b. You have a number of European high speed trains of about 1,30m in length and need stations for those. I assume you want some German-style cities with a few large stations, maybe one on each level with a town. Do you have any other trains you want to run? Goods? Local passenger trains? Do the 6 high speed trains need to fit into one station at one time (thus requiring at least six track wide stations)?
c. what is the 54 number you need in platforms to stop?
"54 in" is the original poster's way of writing "54 inches". One inch equals 2.54 centimeter. A 130 cm train is 51.1 inches long. Or about 4 feet, 3 inches long. The 54 inches the original poster is talking about is about 3" (about 7.5) centimeters longer than this - 137-138 centimeters or so.
I notice that all measures (except that "54 in") are given in millimeters. Which is not necessarily the best idea when the original poster is asking a group consisting mostly of Americans for help - they tend to think in inches and feet rather than in centimeters and millimeters.
Good luck in helping the original poster.
Stein