any N scale C-C with a 47 -48 foot wheelbase between truck centres ???

[scaro]

Gday busty cougars!

I know some of the bigger SDs and GEs crept over the dash-2 43'3" measurement, by a couple of feet, SD50 and so on, but did anything hit 47 foot or thereabouts between truck centres? 

And is there an N model of it?

[peteski]

I know that you don't model in N scale, but since this is a very N scale dimensions specific  question I'll move it to the more appropriate section.

[Point353]

I know some of the bigger SDs and GEs crept over the dash-2 43'3" measurement, by a couple of feet, SD50 and so on, but did anything hit 47 foot or thereabouts between truck centres? 

And is there an N model of it?

46' for SD70MAC.  Model by Kato.

[scaro]

I know that you don't model in N scale, but since this is a very N scale dimensions specific  question I'll move it to the more appropriate section.

thank you peteski

[scaro]

46' for SD70MAC.  Model by Kato.

thank you.  do you know what is the truck wheelbase on the kato model is ?

[Albert in N]

  Hope that these N scale photos help.  I fell and busted my right hip and femur spending 22 days total in 2 hospitals, but home now.  Naturally, I cannot readily find my precision ruler, but did find this 6 inch one.

[scaro]

thank you for the pic and hope you are better soon

one other question to anyone reading.

is it possible to flip a truck on the SD70MAC? i see gear tower is offset to one end

hoping to get 8mm extra between truck centres

[Point353]

thank you for the pic and hope you are better soon

one other question to anyone reading.

is it possible to flip a truck on the SD70MAC? i see gear tower is offset to one end

hoping to get 8mm extra between truck centres

So, you want another 4'+ between (prototype) truck centers?

FWIW, an SD80MAC measures 53' between truck centers.
 

[scaro]

So, you want another 4'+ between (prototype) truck centers?

FWIW, an SD80MAC measures 53' between truck centers.

ohhh. you got me thinking.  do you have a measurement from front axle of SD80MAC to rear axle:   O O O  ___________  O O O

                                                                                                                                                  l_____________________l

like this?

was trying to work out SD70MAC measurements from the only SD70 diagram I can find online, but it's another variant & I wonder if I went a bit wrong in my calculations somewhere

[rail_nut]

Scaro,

Maybe if it is not a secret, you could tell us what you are trying to do.
That way somebody might be able to really answer your real need.

[scaro]

the trouble is that doing this, invites solutions beyond my skill level, if i'm blunt. 

there's stuff i know how to do that may seem a complicated way around ... and things which to most others seem simpler, or more logical, but are a bit beyond me. adjusting N mechs is kind of in my comfort zone

i will go to a couple of shows when back in the UK and measure SD70, SD75 etc. SD70 seems like it ought to be 114-116mm outer axle to outer axle. but no one can say. it is what it is. let's go with the guess

there are a lot at them around. they didn't seem to sell so fast. shouldn't be hard to find & measure one up. thank you all for the pointers

[peteski]

Scaro,

Maybe if it is not a secret, you could tell us what you are trying to do.
That way somebody might be able to really answer your real need.

If you have been hanging around Railwire for several years, you would likely realize that Scaro is modeling in scale larger than N but smaller than H0. Scale which is not popular in the States. He uses N scale mechanisms for his projects.

[scaro]

If you have been hanging around Railwire for several years, you would likely realize that Scaro is modeling in scale larger than N but smaller than H0. Scale which is not popular in the States. He uses N scale mechanisms for his projects.

i think what he's asking is reasonable, tho. part of it is my failure to move on to newer ways of doing things.   in essence, i am trying to find a way to get a chassis for a TT scale US hood locomotive. and it's possible that a chassis may be wrong for one thing but right for another. i usually save the measurements in a table, if i'm sure of them.  serendipity sometimes strikes.

[peteski]

Scaro, I'm a bit puzzled why you are so resistant to receiving advice or ideas from other modelers.  Regardless of how I do things (as you say old or new ways), any advice given by others will be gladly received, even if I'm not planning on taking it.  The advice presented by others often contains useful bits of info which might give me alternate ways how to do things, even at my current skill level.  Of course some advice given might be bad, but I feel I'm intelligent enough to ignore that type of advice.

[scaro]

probably worded it the wrong way. what i mean is that i will get advice that is a bit beyond my skill level eg, for some modelers, making a bespoke mechanism is easy. but tho i've been down that road, i found via experience that it wasn't easy for me.