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The 45 mm gauge originated from 1 gauge or "gauge one" which was first used in Europe and Britain and used to model standard gauge trains in the scale of 1:32. LGB were first to adopt the term G scale and used the gauge of 45 mm (1.772 in) to model 1,000 mm gauge European trains in 1:22.5 scale.
There are three cabooses originally built for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Texas and New Orleans Railroad, and Union Pacific Railroad, as well as two streamlined Union Pacific passenger cars that saw service on the City of Los Angeles (train). The 4.75" and 3.5" gauges are configured in a ground level shared dual-gauge format.
The line was given the designation G in 1921. [3] [4] The G line followed the same route through to Griffin until 1926 when that segment of track was taken over by the A-2 line. The Angeleno Heights Shuttle Line was absorbed into the service and served as the G's new north end
Owned by PRS, stored at the Southern California Railway Museum 2445-2446 Pullman articulated coach Owned by PRS, stored at the Southern California Railway Museum 2473-2474 Pullman articulated coach Undergoing restoration; Niles Canyon Railway, Sunol, Ca. 2979 Pullman lounge car: Undergoing restoration; Niles Canyon Railway, Sunol, Ca
Thus the scale and approximate prototype gauge are represented, with the model gauge used (9 mm for H0e gauge; 6.5 mm for H0f gauge) being implied. [ 2 ] The scales used include the general European modelling range of Z, N, TT, H0, 0 and also the large model engineering gauges of I to X, including 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 , 5, 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 and 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 ...
In later years his own modelling moved outdoors, and to the larger scale of Gauge 1. [40] Minories: C. J. Freezer: 00: 1957 An influential design, more than as a single instance of a model; this is an attempt to model an interesting urban passenger terminus in the minimum space, allowing much opportunity for operating trains, more than scenic ...
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The Los Angeles Cable Railway (later named the Pacific Cable Railway, and incorporated in Illinois) [7] owned many exclusive franchises (agreements with the city to use public streets for transportation purposes) and by 1889 had constructed four major cable lines crisscrossing the growing downtown area, from Jefferson and Grand to East Los ...