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Peco sleeper spacing

Killybegs

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Having spent all day ballasting track on Bruckless Junction (and I've hardly scratched the surface!) I got to wondering whether there was an historic reason for the sleepers on Peco(and Hornby) track being so close together. Any ideas? I did get about 70% of the diesel depot ballasted so that's a start anyway.

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- Keep an eye on Shedmasters blog , as he has a handy little gizmo for re- spacing the sleepers on Peco track - which im sure he'll post details of soon (if not , pester him!) it should be exactly what your afterwink.gif

 

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Jon

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I was always under the impression that Peco track is very close to scale. Unfortunately for 00 folks, the scale of the track is H0, i.e.3.5mm to the foot. Hence not only is the spacing a bit narrow, but the sleepers are shorter than they should be as well. This also explains why the proportions look quite good, especially when there is no 4mm model in sight.

 

Nick

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I think Nick's right. Streamline OO/HO track was designed with the international market in mind, and it has been quite successful in some overseas marekts, e.g. USA. It does look poor in comparison with scale OO track, but remains the only choice for those of us with too little time/skill/patience to do the job ourselves.

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