Miles in L-Gauge

[AlAxe2]

I'm working on an expansion of a simple oval layout I'd had for over a decade, and I'm trying to figure out how to scale down the number of feet per section of real-life railroad track to L-Gauge. For example, how many Lego tracks would equate to 1,202 feet of real-life tracks?

[garethjellis]

It depends what scale or gauge you want to go with,

 

using track gauge only

 

1 brick width = 8mm,

Lego track is 6 bricks wide = 48mm

Standard track gauge is 4' 8.5" = 1241mm

This gives a scale of 1:26

So.@ 1:26..1202 feet would = 1991 studs,

Track is 16 studs long. so you would need 124 track sections.

 

 

[caiman0637]

http://studs.sariel.pl/ Hope this helps.

[Sven J]

36 minutes ago, garethjellis said:

Lego track is 6 bricks wide = 48mm

Standard track gauge is 4' 8.5" = 1241mm

This gives a scale of 1:26

Sorry, but this is wrong.

Track gauge is defined by the inner distance of the rail heads, which is 38 mm for Lego track (6 studs is the distance between the outer edges of the rail bases!).
Prototypical standard gauge is 4' 8.5", as you said, but this is equivalent to 1,435 mm.
So Lego track has a scale of approx. 1:38.

[garethjellis]

43 minutes ago, Tenderlok said:

Prototypical standard gauge is 4' 8.5", as you said, but this is equivalent to 1,435 mm.
 

You are correct, this is what happens when you trust the interwebs!

https://feetmm.com/height/4-feet-and-8.5-inches-to-mm