grid miles

[winston]

I am tring to figure out the miles... For example. i'm tring to use the grid on the new map. without the paint for land. and I need to know for one board how many miles is that. two boards will be what to miles? and extra. or try it this way. 2 engines with 12 cars will = in a half mile or a mile? please help. thank you. please add me to ichat. winston

 

[HiBaller]

Each board is 750 Meters square. That's 0.75 KM. To convert KM to Miles, multiply the KM by 0.6213.

You can also use a ruler after you set the units to US values. The ruler will show in feet.

EDIT: If you have a track plan in miles, you can convert it to KM by multiplying miles by 1.609 to get KM.

Bill

 

[whitepass]

The grid is 10 meters square.

 

[HiBaller]

And in 2010, each grid square can be cut down to 5 meters. Each board is 75 ten-meter squares on a side.

Bill

 

[Dermmy]

And in 2010, each grid square can be cut down to 5 meters. Each board is 75 ten-meter squares on a side.

Bill

Close Bill, but the real answer is 72 x 10 meter squares = 720 meters ...

Andy

 

[HiBaller]

Cheeze, I knew that. Wonder why the heck I said 750? I need more 'brain food' I guess.

Bill

 

[Euphod]

And he grounds out to first....:wave:

 

[gparker]

grid size

If you check either with the ruler under 'tools' or by counting, you will find that each basic square on the 'baseboard' is 10m by 10m and there are 72 (not 75) in each direction. So the base is 720m by 720m.

This is probably not all that important unless you are trying to reproduce a real railway system.

Graham

 

[SuperFudd]

Each base board is a tad less than 1/2 a mile so I just use two base boards as a mile. This gives some mild compression but it works for me and keeps things simple.

 

[SuperFudd]

More to the point, one base board is 2361 feet by 2361 feet.

 

[mezzoprezzo]

Remember never confuse metric and imperial measurements lest your board gets flipped.

Imageshack

 

[TRAINMAN206]

how many baseboards for a mile

the answer to how many baseboards for a mile equal 2.44 baseboards.i usually just round it off to 2 1/2 baseboards when im doing routes.

 

[mrreet]

I just use rulers.