Tips and Tricks
Pitfalls in model-speak: The Facts on track, measure, track and driver
The model considers a number of linguistic jargon such traps ready - so you avoid the nasty four most common pitfalls
The model scene is usually a severe jargon, as you know it so well by others, very specific areas of knowledge here. Feature here is that mingles with the jargon of the hobby Echtbahner slang and colloquial names. That is part of anything but precise, what can be confusing especially for beginners. It is therefore more likely to be conceptual - and sometimes unintentionally funny - inaccuracies. If you are a say "want to give you the following four fundamental examples of impressions in the language model and pitfalls around Echtbahn:
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" Scale ": The scale means for each type of model construction the reduction factor of the model compared with the original model. The scale has, however, even in model railroad rolling stock nothing to do with the track. A "Scale H0" does not exist, even if it is heard colloquially often. Example, you can drive on the H0 scale with 16.5 mm gauge cars with very different scales. In addition to replicas of standard gauge vehicles (1:87 scale), for example, narrow vessels of the scale 0e (e zero, scale approx 1:43,5 / 1:45).
"H0 scale": This is with the far most widely used gauge of 16.5 mm. For historical reasons, it is called a "half zero" or "Ha zero" and spoken, as it has evolved from the 0 gauge which maps the standard gauge railways in gauges of 32 mm. So it is not "Ha Oh.
" Rail ": Actually a very simple word. Unfortunately, it is jargon used in the model - sometimes even in printed material - equal in sense to "track", which are simply wrong. A track is the infrastructure of rail, which is formed from the substructure and the superstructure. Then, the two tracks that lead to the wheels. No major auto manufacturer sells model railroad "tracks", it sold the elements of a track system.
"Engineer": A current trend is to equip, model locomotives with a driver figure. Looks really nice and prototypical. But the driver is in many conversations simply made to "drivers" - here were wrong in the past already ARD Tagesschau spokesman. The driver is the driver, the "boss on the train" is the platoon leader.
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