Having established a rough track plan for Pete’s Pumpkins, I next needed to decide what scale I would be modelling in. I knew that I was going to use N scale track and motive power for the railroad, so I decided to draft up some freelanced engine designs in various scales to better assess how plausible it would be to transform my old Bachmann Plymouth MDT Switcher into a narrow gage gnat.
The three scales I chose to explore were O Scale, #1 Scale and G Scale. I was able to come up with some fairly pleasing designs but was most intrigued with the plans designed in #1 scale (1:32). The current track plan features tracks Pete’s pit ‘ the tunnel beneath the ‘mainline’ track ‘ which will have limited clearances, so the G scale plans are a bit too big. Likewise, I’m considering modelling the figures for the railroad myself, so the O Scale plans ‘ while decent ‘ might prove to be too challenging when it comes time to model some O scale people.
Here are the possibilities I came up with. Enjoy.