N Scale?

[Harry_James_Potter]

Unfortunately I sold my Eurostar collection quite a while ago when I moved house I bought a Jouef Eurostar set in France around 1996 and whilst even the "train set" version looks 10x better than even the joint Hornby / Jouef one, it's a shame that neither manufacturer has produced any standard intermediate trailers for it (particularly as Jouef already do / did this for the rest of their TGV range). I was once told that Lima had manufactured a HO Eurostar with proper intermediate trailers, however I've never seen any evidence of this and think the person was getting confused between the cross-channel Eurostar and the FS Eurostar which runs in Italy and is a completely different train....

I also had a HO Jouef TGV with five or six "proper" intermediate trailers and I have to say they do look quite good at that scale, shame you can't make a long Eurostar without either a) a lot of modifications or b) it looking a bit silly.

JB

How long is a Resin Rocket (eurostar) anyway? I'm thinking it's about 400m roughly. That would make it about 5.3 metres long in OO (going on the 1 in 76 scale conversion factor).

 

[jivebunny]

Yep you're pretty much spot-on, the exact length is 394m so that's 5.18m in OO or 2.46m in N (they're built to the international 1:160 rather than the UK's 1:148)

JB

 

[m3henry]

Bachman do seem to have a wee bit of trouble with 'N' (uk)
although their HO/OO models are the dog's gonads
if your looking for good 'N' models, try Dapol

 

[Heppy]

I wouldn't mind collecting a pair of Eurostars but in the scale that I model, I'm sure that a certain company would have something to say about it that wouldn't be very nice...

regards

Harry.

Ps... you could always let him have one of yours on a lease deal...

The Eurostar is still available in N Gauge. M.G.Sharp quote £150.00 for the 8 car set. http://www.mgsharp.com/Kato_European_N.htm but you might get it from somewhere else in Europe for less.

Peter H.

 

[enrique1]

For European stuff: Roco, Minitrix, Kato, Fleischmann....

And the prototype model of the American Talgos (not the Cascades) was make by Electrotren (now in the Hornby Hobbies group) few years ago.