06-12-2013, 07:08 PM
nkp_174 Wrote:For S scale, is there a difference between hi-rail and scale trucks? I'm sure the wheelsets are different, but I don't know anything about high rail trucks in S or O.
In the world of S scale and gauge hirail track is too tall to be scale and sometimes will be compatible with both scale and hirail wheel sets where as tinplate AF track will only be usable for tinplate/highrail wheels which have realy big flanges, now as for trucks hirail most of the time has a coupler pocket built in on the truck or the truck some times has a coupler sandwiched between truck and car chassis. In S scale the trucks have scale wheel sets and the coupler more than likely an S scale Kadee mounted to the body of car. Also the trucks can be diecast or plastic. O scale has the same Hirail / scale properties only bigger.
O and S hirail wheelsets = HO pizza cutters
Played with sketchup and drew a 40' side of a car so I could try out the work around for the smaller circles...that is a pretty slick trick
