Comments on: A Soviet train on eBay!? https://dfarq.homeip.net/a-soviet-train-on-ebay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-soviet-train-on-ebay David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/a-soviet-train-on-ebay/#comment-1167 Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:53:18 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1213#comment-1167 I think with a bit more hype, it could have gone for upwards of $200, seeing the inflated prices people pay for poor-condition Marx and American Flyer train cars. Oh well. It was neat to look at.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/a-soviet-train-on-ebay/#comment-1164 Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:21:06 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1213#comment-1164 In reply to Anonymous.

Toy train and model railroad scales don’t vary from country to country, although some scales that are popular here are non-existant elsewhere. Some hardcore modelers will adjust the width of their track to scale it exactly to match the stretch of track they’re modeling, but that’s fairly rare because then you have to hand-lay your track and build your own locomotives and cars. I enjoy hand-building cars, but not enough to build everything myself, and from what I can tell, I’m in the minority in doing that.

You’re right that track in what used to be the Soviet Union is a different width than here (4’8.5" in most of the United States, and 5 feet in Russia and vicinity) but no, that’s not relevant to these trains.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/a-soviet-train-on-ebay/#comment-1163 Mon, 22 Mar 2004 03:57:20 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1213#comment-1163

Okay, this isn’t really something I know much about, but don’t they have different width tracks over there? Or is that totally irrelevent to model railroads?

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