HOe scale

HOe scale

Infobox_Model_Rail_Scale
name = HOe/HOn30
image_filename = Egger 1006 grote kopp.jpg
image_caption = Egger-bahn Steam Tram
widthpx = 200px
scale = 3.5 mm to 1 foot
ratio = 1:87
gauge = 9 mm
prototype_gauge = 762 mm (2 ft 6 in)

HOe or HOn30 is a popular rail transport modelling scale/gauge combination widely used by modellers of European, American, and Japanese narrow gauge railways.

The term HOn30 (and sometimes HOn2½) is generally used when modelling American prototypes whilst H0e is used for European prototypes. In the Britain the term HO9 is sometimes used [cite web
url = http://www.scalefour.org/parkside/ng5.htm
title = Narrow Gauge Models in OO9 and OOn3
accessdate=2008-09-05
author=Keith Norgrove
publisher=Parkside Dundas] . All these terms refer to models of narrow gauge railways built to the world's most popular model railway scale of HO (1:87) but using a track gauge of 9 mm—the gauge used for N scale models of standard gauge railways.

The scale was invented by Egger-bahn in 1963 [ [http://www.egger-bahn.de/english/index.htm Egger-bahn: History] ] .

HOe is one of the gauge/scale combinations defined by NEM [ [http://www.morop.org/en/normes/nem010_en.pdf NEM 010: Ratio, Scale and Gauge] ] . According to that standard, HOe represents narrow gauges between 650-850 mm though it's often used to represent 60cm gauge railways as well. In strict scale HOe represents a true gauge of 783 mm so is very close to the gauge of the RailGauge|750mm and RailGauge|760mm gauge railways most widely used in Germany and the former Austro-Hungarian empire as well as to the RailGauge|2ft6in gauge used in parts of the British Empire.

HOn30 is often used to model the RailGauge|2' gauge railroads in the US state of Maine. [ [http://www.hon30.org/jdf/ho30.htm The HOn30 Home Depot: Getting started in HOn2 1/2] ]

Related Scales

The other NEM defined narrow gauges for HO scale are HOm (using 12 mm gauge originally TT scale track) for models of metre gauge and similar prototypes and HOi (using Z scale 6.5 mm track - also known as HOf) for prototypes around 60cm- the most popular gauge for industrial (or Feldbahn) railways.

In the United Kingdom where the most popular railway modelling scale is 4 mm/ft or 1:76 scale, the narrow gauge equivalents to HOe and HOm are 009 and 00n3 for modelling 3 foot gauge railways—widely used in Ireland and the Isle of Man—on 12 mm gauge track.

The following table lists other combinations that are close to HOe/HOn3 in either scale or gauge;

References

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