I'm looking at a Flying Scotsman set on eBay. The set is listed as OO. Is this the same as HO or a different gauge altogether? I'd really like to find an HO Flying Scotsman but they seem hard to come by here in the States.
I'm guessing it would take a wider curve radius though?Russ Bellinis said:Ho is scaled at 3.5mm to a foot. I think oo is scaled at 4mm per foot, but runs on the same track as ho.
60103 said:Cannonball: since you said "set", I'm going to assume it's one by Hornby, who make a Flying Scotsman in OO.
The track gauge is 16.5mm, which is HO. The body is scaled to 4mm=1' which is OO. The loco may run through North American turnouts and such, but the wheel standards are not NMRA, and nowhere near RP25.
The track in the set is probably 18" radius or a bit less. The loco may run on curves as small as 13.5, but I think the newer ones have been tightened up a bit. Probably won't like O27. Hornby have made 3 main series of models; the first ones ran on tight curves.
The scale may be bigger, but the prototype is smaller, so the train is about the same mass as HO.
AFAIK, there are no HO Flying Scotsmen. HO scale British stuff is extremely scarce. There are occasional movements for HO, but it would mean producing all the accessories from scratch. Rivarossi made an exquisite Royal Scot in HO, and nobody bought it.
The track and wheels are not compatible with Lionel's pre-war OO, which was the accurate gauge.
Any ideas what caused this?Mike14xx said:I should know this, most of my collection is hornby. You can run them on the same track but I do not advise using the same controller. I have a bachmann Acela train set and when I used one of my hornby trains with its controller and went to use it with Acela it almost broke it. Acela was going top speed even though the speed control knob was at zero. So there is my very useful 2 cents.
Well, poo.Collyn said:different voltage and amps. the hornby is meant for a 220v controller at half the amperage.