A few years back I started a thread here about scale speed vs scale mph in which I argued that speed doesn’t scale and that an N-Scale train moving at a 40 scale mph would appear to be moving at near warp speed. This is especially true on smaller layouts and as I get more and more detail and scenery down I find that I must run my trains even slower or they look like bullet trains. My point is we can talk about scale miles and how many feet make up an N-Scale mile so we can tell people we have five or six scale miles of mainline. But in N-Reality our miles are pretty much whatever we say they are. A twelve inch bridge separates two of my towns/scenes. In N-Miles this is only 160 feet or .03 miles. However in N-Reality it is many, many miles. Now would you like to hear about the blue lines in hocky?
It is too bad that the two of you are yard challenged. Both of your yards are IMPRESSIVE. Thanks for sharing. Gary
How many feet in an N scale mile? Hmmm. Well first I would gather up a whole mess of N scale sized people. Then I would have them line up in a straight line all facing the next persons back. Their feet would be positioned heal to toe. Each persons toe would be touching the next persons heal except of course the first and last person. Just keep lining them up until you get a length of one N scale mile. Now all you have to do is count the number of people in line and multiply the amount by two, assuming each person has two feet. Now you have the number of feet in an N scale mile. Now of course if you tried the experiment another time and had a different group of people the number of feet could be different. The chances of getting another group with the same size feet would not be vary likely. Hence the number of feet in an N scale mile will never be the same. Drum roll please. :tb-biggrin: Boo :thumbs_down:
