11-02-2009, 11:21 AM
The cars can be narrowed in a few hours. A gondola in an hour.
![[Image: narrowed_gon.jpg]](http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/image/narrowed_gon.jpg)
The house cars only fault is the width and that is easily corrected. Just narrow it by 4 boards. I converted a On30 box car into an S scale standard gauge car in an evening. That was lowering, narrowing and changing the trucks. So the house cars should only take about an hour.
The compromise in gauge is too serious to use O scale on HO track. The track whether handlaid or ME it looks like what it is, 31inch gauge too narrow, for American Narrow Gauge. If the difference doesn't bother then you need a new hobby. Bachmann's On30 line has such a limited range of motive power for American Narrow gauge in the 1880-1890 period. It is too big, too new , or too foreign. The inside frame locomotives look malformed with the drivers too far under the super stucture.
Converting models is the fun part of the hobby.
![[Image: 280A.JPG]](http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/image/280A.JPG)
A Jeff Saxton model in "On30" using an HO chassis, sure looks like 55n3 to me.
Sorry your thought box is so limited.
"Scale 55 - We Don't need no stinkin' letter"
Harold
The house cars only fault is the width and that is easily corrected. Just narrow it by 4 boards. I converted a On30 box car into an S scale standard gauge car in an evening. That was lowering, narrowing and changing the trucks. So the house cars should only take about an hour.
The compromise in gauge is too serious to use O scale on HO track. The track whether handlaid or ME it looks like what it is, 31inch gauge too narrow, for American Narrow Gauge. If the difference doesn't bother then you need a new hobby. Bachmann's On30 line has such a limited range of motive power for American Narrow gauge in the 1880-1890 period. It is too big, too new , or too foreign. The inside frame locomotives look malformed with the drivers too far under the super stucture.
Converting models is the fun part of the hobby.
A Jeff Saxton model in "On30" using an HO chassis, sure looks like 55n3 to me.
Sorry your thought box is so limited.
"Scale 55 - We Don't need no stinkin' letter"
Harold